So I have had my MacBook up for about a week new, and I took it on a road trip. So far I am loving it. This notebook is solid, and the keyboard is lovely. I am also in love with the trackpad. I am not sure if I can go back to a normal trackpad. I find myself trying to click, scroll, and expose on other laptops.
While I am loving the MacBook, I am not sure how I feel about OSX… or really how I feel about the software available for OSX. The iLife software package that comes with OSX sucks compared to the Windows Live package. Lets start with iWeb… who still makes web pages? Everyone blogs these days and Windows Live Writer is the best software package out there. In fact there is no Mac software package that even comes close! This is my biggest compliant for OSX, there is no software free or paid, that come close to Live Writer. Also Windows Live Gallery kicks iPhotos butt. iPhoto is a cutesy kids version of photo management. The tagging and organizational features of Live Gallery set it apart.
I am sure I will find solutions going forward, but it is a learning curve. I still find myself booting back into Vista for blogging.
Here is one of the biggest things I have learned:
– To right click in BootCamp, which a multi-touch trackpad, use three fingers to click instead of two. I took me a long time to figure this out.