I’m just about to wet myself — !
My lovely S.O. — oh my gods — has just presented me with a brand new MacBook. Criminy. What can I say, besides the obvious stumbling and stammering ‘THANK YOU!!’ — ?
He says he did it so I could download Scrivener for my writing. I’m giddy, and feel like crying with surprise and confusion and happiness, because the gesture goes way beyond just a new laptop — he believes in my writing.
But I’m kinda scared. I’ve never used anything but a PC before, and am feeling somewhat daunted at the moment.
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Friday February 8, 2008 at 1:32 am
Michael
Scrivener is awesome, and Mac’s are the bomb! I bought one a year ago in November, and really do not want to have a Windows machine again. Mac has almost everything right. You are sooo Lucky!!
Friday February 8, 2008 at 11:12 am
R.
Hiya, Michael –
Agreed, this Mac ‘Leopard’ is a delight! It behaves so much more smoothly than any PC I’ve ever used — which is all I’d ever used before, so I am no longer a ‘MacVirgin’ — and the only possible issue I might have would be a couple of elements missing from the keyboard. Right-click/left-click, the ‘nipple’ mouse [as my lovely S.O. calls it], ‘end’ , and ‘backspace’ are not present, so I need to learn my way around those differences; also, the touchpad is only a cursor now, and does not ‘click’ as I’m accustomed to on a PC .
Otherwise, WOW!! I now grok why they say, “Once you go Mac, you never go back.”
And Scrivener is just amazing. It’s user-friendly *without* being dumbed-down to the point of being condescending or insulting. It is a truly sophisticated bit of software.
I’ll be composing a post about my initial and developing impressions about my New Toy [!] later,… but I just gotta get back to playing with it! Thanks for visiting and commenting!
R. [is for 'radish']