I picked up my new Macbook Air on Friday afternoon. Now, Tuesday morning, it is almost ready for my trip to Portland tomorrow morning. I will be gone until Monday. It will be a great chance to see how it goes. The technology is life changing. The new track pad is incredible. No more reaching for the scroll bar to scroll a page; just drag on the touch pad with two fingers. A two finger tap is a right click. It is incredibly fast and intuitive, just like a Mac should be.
Here are the programs that I have installed so far.
- Mozilla Firefox
- FileZilla (client)
- Chicken of the VNC (client)
- Skype
- Grandperspective
- vlc
- Evernote
- Office 2008
- Ruby on Rails per instructions at http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html
- Stuffit Expander
- Thunderbird
- iWorks
- Growl
I guess I will be adding VMware so I can run Microsoft Money and any other Windows app that I might still need.
I am also trying to set things up so that I can get back to my regular PC from the network. That will give me access to the data and apps on it.
What a joy this has been to work on. It may make me a fully Mac person sooner than I thought.
