After analyzing and following closely about MacBooks for a long time,i bought one last week ! I was very much excited to post pics and my thoughts the day i got in my hand. But felt that waiting till the end of honeymoon period would let me give a neutral feedback. One week is over with my love and i started blogging in it and this is the first post. Pictures first...

In general i am poor decision maker,I'll take a hell lot of time before deciding on something. Buying a MacBook was not a easy one. I love Apple's design, that's the first reason i chose a Mac. Next is the things i read about Mac OS X. From whatever i read this is the most productive operating system around. Leopard's preview made me to stand firm on my decision to go with a Mac. Its a myth that apple is not cheap. From whatever i analyzed, MacBook (13”) is not costlier than Lenova Thinkpad R series (14”) or Dell (12”). Dell (14”) is cheaper than a MacBook,but for me Dell is more like an assembler than a laptop manufacturer. MacBook Pro's are the costliest ones. The next myth is – Its difficult to learn OS X and softwares are not available. Come on guys,being in IT you should not say this. Every six months we work on different technologies,so learning should not be a issue,its a mental block. What softwares we use in general ? Watch movies,listen to songs,mails,word,excel,powerpoint,surf,chat. That's it right. You can do all this in a Mac, more efficiently. This is what i want and i hope most of us need.

One of my ex-roomie – BM,ordered for me and shipped. Tax saving dudes,saved around 100 bucks. He took lot of pain for this,ofcourse i sent him few pics of Bhavana as a compliment. So nice of him,thanks da. Now,over to things i love so far. Ofcourse the design comes first,no one can beat Apple in this area. The USB port's,firewire,headphone,mic connections are all on the left side,you don't need to hunt them in the back or search for it on either side whenever you want to connect. They have utilized the function keys to the max. F8 is the only key which has no general use. Control the brightness,sound,extrenal monitor all available in the function keys. Remote and magnetic power cord are the next cool feature. Control media apps using remote. Some third party software is available to even control other applications. I need to check that soon. Quicksilver is also a third party free app which helps you in increasing your efficiency to launch applications. Its awesome,you can do everything you want to do at the max of four steps/keystrokes. Wakes up from sleep mode pretty quick.

As soon as i logged in for the first time,i checked whether i could read tamil blogs or not. Thank god,Safari supports Unicode. Then Vikatan is the site i launched. Oops, pochuda kavuthitaanga da. Vikatan site has its own font to be installed. And they don't have instructions to install the font on a Mac(too bad Vikatan). I figured that out by myself and it did work. But still the first character of each paragraph is screwed up,need to write to Vikatan or i should try Firefox. இன்னொரு முக்கியமான விஷயம்,நிறைய–matter site-ல movies open ஆகாது,Sun-TV தெரியாது,most games will not work. I don't mind about the two of the three things i said,go figure out which one i bother.

Now,disappointments-Speakers. At first i felt the max. volume is not enough. Then i relaised that i am expecting a laptop to deliver sound for the living room than for a single user. So after having a bad impression at first glance i am ok now. It generates a lot of heat. A bit heavy than i expected.

My friends have challenged me that i would revert back to Windows within six months,let's see.

Movies in last month: வேட்டையாடு விளையாடு – Boring.சில்லுனு ஒரு காதல் – bad,it was too bad to an extent that a couple behind me started worrying what if this kind of things happen in their life.Sh!t they even started discussing about their dinner plans. எம் மகன் – ok,good compared to the others. நீ வேணும்டா செல்லம் - A crap. Lage Raho Munna Bhai is very good – a mix of Munna bhai MBBS and ரோஜாவனம். Please don't make a third part in this series,eg: Sooraj R. Barjatya series.