Naquada

Ok so I couldnt hold of any longer, a particularly long stay in the Apple store in Regent street yesterday resulted in the purchase of one of the new MacBooks.

I didn’t unpack it until lunch time today, as I wanted to savour the moment, call me sad I know but these something wonderful about being able to open a brand new box, and slowly explore the contents on your new purchase.

Like every Mac I’ve had, setup was simple, seamless and easy, it was up and running within about ten minutes, and loaded with all my normal applications within about an hour or so.

So far I’m very impressed, I was very worried about the various comments going round about the heat, peeling black skins and glossy screens, but I’m glad to say (touch wood) none of these issues seem to be affecting my unit.

I think the black MacBook just looks slightly slicker than the white. Admittedly white has always been associated with Apple, but since the introduction of the black iPod, I’ve grown to like my darker side of Apple. Not to mention the glowing white Apple Logo on the black lid just looks quite mean…

So I’m sat here on the sofa, streaming radio to the downstairs Airport Express, writing the blog and all is well with the world. I’m now officially an Mac geek, a two mac household, a member of the cult of Mac..

Any issues ? well.. just one, it seems that front row (or iTunes or something in the ‘i’ world) dislikes streaming shared video from a remote drive. That is, that I have my main iTunes directory on a samba share to my G5, both front row, and iTunes seems to not be able to play videos over wireless using front row 1.2.2…

I think this is a Apple / SMB / Front Row / iTunes sharing issues from the look of the Apple forums, some experimentation with locations of the iTunes directory may be needed over the next week..