01 November 2007
Tomorrow is the Big Day
God willing, I'll be typing on a MacBook by the day's end Friday. I'm REALLY looking forward to the upgrade and will keep anyone who is interested posted on how the process has gone. Cindi will be inheriting my beloved little iBook, but she insists on a new keyboard. I bang the keyboard so hard as I type that I've wiped the blasted letters off the keys for more than half the letters (I'm old enough to have learned to type on a manual - if you've done likewise, you understand). Best thing about the new puter? It will run the Church's Lutheran Service Builder - right now, only my son's computer is capable of running it, and he really doesn't like sharing, the wretch! ;)
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I plan to look at the MacBook tomorrow, which would be my sixth one (one lost in a fire). I have been a Mac user since 1990.
I'm curious what you use for word processing. I use Mellel primarily because of its superb RTL ability and its charter and paragraph styles are far superior to Word. For page layout I use Papyrus XII and RagTime, both excellent programs (and both cross-platform).
Rich
If you get a new one....does that mean I get a new one?
but...I'm nicer to mine. I can SEE all MY keys.
My dad always got the new toys while poor mom always got his left over junk without complaint. This seems to be a trend in many marriages. Why do you think that is?
Dear Lew: you have to ask your hubby for your new toys now! ;)
Dear Anon: Now don't you call my little iBook "left over junk." How rude!!! It's a great little puter, and with a new keypad will work splendidly for what Cin uses computers for. But Cindi and I actually share puters - so I suspect she'll be using the iBook mostly to surf the web and such when I'm using the other during the work day. We'll be sharing the new one when we do things like photos and such. We may even end up sharing it for email like we do now. And if she needs to work on something that only the new one does, I'll be using this one. That's the way we work things out in our family!
Rich,
For my work I mostly use Word. If I need page layout I use Pages. I have experimented with Open Office and like it, but seem to always end up veering back to Word. I guess I'm just terribly comfortable with it.
Second vote here for Pages. I've used a lot of page layout programs and that is, by far, my favorite. Really well done.
Not to entice anyone to break the 10th commandment, but my new MacPro is en route as I type this! It would make your little MacBook cower in the corner. ;-)
Jeff
Do they still look like covered toilet seats? ;)
unclbuss
I've caved.
I intellectually assent to the Mac guys argument ever since I first heard it about the time 98 came out, but I've always had a PC.
The latest has Vista. Got one with a gig of RAM running Home Premium but I'm going to pop another gig in there so it runs as fast as my 850MHz 256MB running ME that I've been using since 2001, including right now, with Office 97 and Quicken 4 from previous PCs!
I am coming to the light soon; my next machine will be a Mac. Two questions for you:
1) Do you run Lutheran Service Builder with Boot Camp, Parallels, or just how exactly?
2) Do you find that the Mac laptops are as stable as a desktop? I have had just disastrous experiences with pc laptops. (Those new Macs I've seen on TV look nice and compact - no tower!)
Christopher,
I wanted to wait until I could see how well it ran before I replied. I got Parallels up and running. Builder works fine in that environment. I have it also installed on my son's MacBook Pro on Boot Camp and there it also works fine (as expected).
As far as stability, I've basically worked exclusively on Apple's notebooks since the days of the first iBook (that infamous toilet seat that Kevin referred to up above). They seem rock solid to me. And best of all: with the new stuff they've got some sort of shock absorber built into the thing. NOT that I have any intentions of trying it out! :)
Thanks for the update. Now I just need to save up a few more denarii and I'm in, as my PC at home has been giving me fits for several months now.
I went to an Apple store for the first time on Saturday, and was amazed at how they just let me "play" with everything, no pressure. The products sell themselves.
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