Archive - Apr 5, 2008

The MacBook I ordered last Friday arrived here on Wednesday. Unfortunately I had to make a special trip out to the Fedex depot out near the airport to pick it up, but that's what I get for sending it to my house instead of work I guess. Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised at how quick it got here. Like I said, ordered it on Friday and I had it by Wednesday evening, and it would have been Wednesday morning if I had been home. Free shipping too - so that's damn good if you ask me.

After doing some initial setup on Wednesday night, I brought it to work with me on Thursday to see if I'd like using it at work instead of my work laptop. I think I do prefer it, but after thinking about it some more, I decided that it doesn't make sense to 'put the miles' on my personal laptop when I've already got one at work. It'll be less wear and tear on it by not carting it back and forth to work everyday - especially since I haven't got a bag for it yet. And on the plus side, I'm going to stop hauling my work machine back and forth and just leave it at work since I've now got access to a laptop at home.

First impressions are good, although I've been using a mac since Boris converted me back in 2004, so I kind of knew what to expect. The only issue I've had with it is that it doesn't seem to like to stay connected to my wireless access point. Very sporadically it will just drop the connection and I have to manually re-establish the link. Kind of annoying. I wasn't sure if it was a problem with the MacBook or the access point, but after doing a quick google search, it looks like it's more than likely the MacBook that is the culprit. Too bad. That being said, I've been connected continuously (and streaming music to remote speakers) now for probably a couple of hours so it's not that big a problem.

It's nice and small and quite light - of course not as light as a MacBook Air - but then again, it's more functional, if you ask me. This thing will be perfect for taking on trips for blogging on the go and storing photos, playing music, movies, etc...just what I was looking for really.