1st Look

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I was super excited to get my new mac book.  I’m now into my second week with a new mac book pro and I’m still getting deciding on what to keep and leave.

Less than stellar parts of my experience are:

1. Migrating Machines:  Not as painless as one would think.  Time Machine and other software like Super Duper didn’t help me at all.  It took 3 failed attempts over two days even with an Apple Migration Assistant update.  Some files just refused to come over eg. /etc/private.

2. 3rd Party Software Licenses:  This is my second migration so this time i remembered that you’re supposed to “de-register” all software before you migrate or else your software licenses won’t work.

3. Blackberry Sync failure:  This is a double whammy because I just started to use Daylite for Mac which no longer supports direct sync.  I switched to Missing Sync a while ago for the the robustness and ease of use but to my shock I got this screen on my repeated attempts to link my two favorite devices.

4. itunes Rentals won’t play on my LCDtv.   I’m just really, really sad about this one.  How many consumer want to rent movies with their spouse and not be able to connect to a bigger screen.  Why you ask?  Apparently my Sony Bravia is not an “authorized display device”.

Now for the good stuff;

1. Lighter

2. Cooler

3. Faster

4. Super fast 320 gig, 7200 rpm HDD

5. Super long battery life

I’m sure my grievances will be short lived (or at least I hope so).  I highly recommend this new laptop but just remember to give yourself enough time ~ you can’t rush switching over ~ it’s like an iceberg ~ it seems easy on the surface but you’ll always find more things below the surface.

ps. I have 1 well loved but used 1st gen macbook pro for sale.

/Alex