Switch THIS!!!

I suppose I am calm now. But this new computer thing has effectively driven me nuts for the better part of this weekend. I was worried on Saturday afternoon that I would be so pissed off going out to dinner with Carrie that I'd be no fun to be with. Fortunately, I recovered.

Anyway, I picked up the computer Friday afternoon and designated Saturday would be a new computer and clean day. While it was happily adding stuff from my old computer I would do laundry and other things.

Well, it did not turn out that way. At least most of the laundry got done.

The main problem was that the old computer would not boot via an external firewire drive despite Apple claiming that it could do so. I spent 1/2 with tech support, tried various things (including a new keyboard) and nothing worked to get it running. In the end I just dumped as much as I could into the external hard drive and would drag as much over as I could later on.

Lost, of course, were all my old emails, preference settings, certifications, passwords, cookies, iTunes playlists, bookmarks and much more. Wah! At least my emails are locateable if I must find them, (unlike the switch to OSX's mail).

I will say this much. The Mac mini is as small as they say. Here is the pic of my desk with the old computer and accessories:



Sorry its not very clear, I am using my camera phone for this.

Anyway, here is what it looks like now:



While it is adorably small, it doe tend to leave all the cables leading to it out in he open. They never show that in the ads.

The thing is also extremely quiet.

I have been working most of today reqaquiring software and getting onto the net. There are probably a bunch of bookmarks that I am going to lose for a while. C'est la guerre.

Anyway. I also got my new printer and the USB/firewire hub (it fits on right under the mini) so I will likely sign off for now as I wish to add those items.

Oh, and widgets kick ass. 'nuff said.