This week, I made the leap of faith from PC to Mac, and the leap was long, faith that I can do this strong, and the desire to separate work on a PC from non-work on a Mac. With my upcoming job change, I wanted to have that clear distinction.<\/p>\n
This week, my new Apple MacBook Pro 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 15.4″ laptop arrived. It’s a loaded box with iLife ’08, MS Office 2008 for Mac, Aperture 2.0 and tons more. I upgraded to 4GB of RAM from crucial.com<\/a> and also purchased an HP Photosmart C7280<\/a> because of a $100 combined purchase rebate. Clear distinctions aside, this is an Intel-based system. I will be installing VMware Fusion<\/a> this weekend, along with Windows XP Home so that I can get my Quicken up and running to actually pay bills when in Mass.<\/p>\n Needless to say, I am really excited, yet concerned that learning the Mac style is somewhat difficult for me, the old PC guy. I have been using PCs since the dawn of time – at least from a PC perspective. I will definitely need to purchase a book or two on the subject, at least one of those “Dummies Guide” books to get me kick started. It is certainly easier today than yesterday and will be easier in another week or two. Some of the keyboard shortcuts that I have apparently taken for granted on the PC are really missed. I’m sure they are there, but I’ll need to have some sort of book to figure it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, I made the leap of faith from PC to Mac, and the leap was long, faith that I can do this strong, and the desire to separate work on a PC from non-work on a Mac. With my upcoming job change, I wanted to have that clear distinction. This week, my new Apple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laptop","category-mac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39P1R-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}