The New Laptop

My new laptop came last Friday. I purchased a MacBook Pro, 2.33Ghz, 3 Gig of RAM, and 160 gig hard-drive - argh, argh, argh, argh! Once I opened it up, moved the files from my old Mac and old PC, I installed Parallels. Parallels allows you to install other operating systems, like Windows, and run them in a Window.

The goal of the new laptop was to consolidate my two laptops - a Dell and a MacBook Pro. It looks as though my plan will work beautifully. Among the many cool features of the MacBook is that it comes with a built in camera with some awesome software. Here is a picture I took in comic bok format.



One of the reasons I love the Macintosh is that it just works. The wireless networks display in your list of networks with ease, software installs and uninstalls with ease, it is simply easy.

One other decision I made was not to install Microsoft Office for the Mac. One of the reasons was that Office for the Mac is not optimized to run on the Intel Duo processor, or the Universal code. The other reason is that the open source software that is available now is fantastic. I am running Neo office, which is a Aqua version of OpenOffice and does not require the use of X11. I am also running Thunderbird and Sunbird to replace Outlook. So far, so good.