MacBook lust.

Alright, so after approximately a week with the MacBook, I thought I'd post an update (Sorry Christie).

Apple Mail:

Wow, so easy to set up! I can't even start to explain the nightmares I've had trying to set up Outlook and Thunderbird as e-mail clients. I have school, GMail, and hotmail email accounts and I have always been forced to use the crappy web interfaces because any time I've tried to set up POP3 forwarding, I've ended up removing all mail from the server and storing it on my hard drive which is not what I wanted at all. So, I ended up archiving all my mail by forwarding it all back to the Gmail server which took me about a full day.

When I took the plunge with Apple Mail I simply put in my email address and selected POP3, but Apple provided an OBVIOUS option to leave the mail on the server as well. I was up and running in about 23 seconds and everything is working the way I want it to.

iMovie:

So I finally got the opportunity to test this bad boy out on the weekend. As we were leaving the bomber on Friday night (hurray for $8 pitchers on a Friday night!) they had those big sumo wrestling suits set up with all the inflated equipment and jousting stuff. So, a couple people donned the suits and I got some crappy low-light footage of Phil drop-kicking the shit out of them with my point-and-shoot sony digital camera. It took me about 5 or 10 minutes to edit the clips and add a soundtrack. I've decided my next tech purchase will be a decent camcorder - I can just keep recording and get all kinds of hilarious footage to compile in the offtime. Video editing was something I got kind of into in my last year of high school doing stuff for assemblies and I've been waiting for an opportunity to pick it up again lately. Enter MacBook.

Wait, I know what you're thinking...the bomber has $8 pitchers on Friday nights? YES! And yet everyone goes on Wednesday, which is ironically the only day of the week they don't have cheap drinks! I'd like to thank the Erb St. crew for tuning me into this little deal and hopefully we'll continue to meet up there on Friday nights. The pub is a lot quieter but the beer is just as cold.

Anyways, I'll have more updates to come on the MacBook, but probably not until school starts and I have a good reason to open up the bash shell and get into some real dev work there. See you on the flip side amigos.