Disclaimer: I do not condone insurance fraud in any way whatsoever.

I was a windows user for the past 20 years, and now i’ll never go back, i’m in love with my new beast!

Only issue I have is with the wireless connection to my WLAN-router. I have to reset the router (turn-off and on agaoin) so that the MacBook gets a connection properly. But my guess is that its the WLAN router. Or is it an simlpe settings issue?

Now that I don’t really game anymore and that I realized Mac OS X was excellent, I switched back to Apple with a black MacBook. I added 2GB RAM and changed its HDD for a faster bigger one (100 GB 7200 Rpm). It’s a breeze. I simply love it.

* mac book shut downs unspectly
* mac book magsafe doesnt want to charge the battery
and the worst thing is that MY Mac Book’s Matshita Superdrive wont read and write DVD-R.
instead of DVD+R that works fine, but wont read or write DVD-R!
When in the System Profiler says it do.
Anyone who had the same problems please contact me at fernandodimare@gmail.com
thanks for your time.

Overall, I find the Mac OS more elegant and easier to use in many ways. But I have had more application crashes with OS X (Apple Mail has suddenly quit a few times, for instance) in the first week with my Macbook than I would have typically with Windows in a month.

But I love the screen and the easy integration of a hardware company that also gives you most of the key software you need.

I’m very happy to be back in the Mac world after an extended absence.

As for comparing Windows to OSX – I agree with some of the other posters: there is no comparison. As poofyhairguy said – OS X is years ahead of Windows and will be even further ahead once they finally release Vista. It’s tiring to hear Windows users recycling the “Apple is overpriced and doesn’t run as much software” argument over and over. Apple-bashers (and not all Windows users are) are simply embarrassing themselves by trying to out- argue Apple users. I mean, how many times do we need to remind them that we don’t have a “blue screen of death,” or viruses or hackers invading our wireless connections stealing our identities right out from under our noses? Since I first powered up my new iMac a year ago – I haven’t had it crash once – no kernel panics either.

Of course now though – the NEW Apple-basher retort is “Oh I don’t use Windows, I use Linux.” Yeah right. Oh and can your PC boot up into Linux, Mac OS X or Windows? Nah – didn’t think so. But just by their admission to using Linux they’re bashing their own flesh and blood: Microsoft and admitting that an OS built on a strong, secure Unix core is a good thing – so you could say they’re all for OS X – if they weren’t so far in denial.

But enough about them – they’ve got gaming to do!!!!!

Anyway, thanks again for the great review! I can’t wait until I get my MacBook in a couple weeks!!

P.S. Regarding the overheating issue – have you read that there’s a very thin ribbon of plastic tape that covers the rear vents that’s supposed to be removed. Many have found this to be one of the main reasons for heat problems.

For people like me who would like to try Apple for the first time, I think this notebook series hits the spot just right, especially with many features you don’t normally get with a Windows-based rig (built in camera, anyone?). It would be the best of both worlds, especially when Vista finally decides to come out.

Now, how do I break it to my parents?

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-turning-yellow/

Should have went black like Chris

The only problem I have had is the heat (forget what Apple says- I want this on my lap) but the other day I figured out if I start a new chess game where the computer plays the computer then the CPU goes to 100%, the fans turn on and after a few minutes of noise my Macbook is cool to the touch again. I hope future firmware just makes the fans come on at a lower temp by default so I don’t have to do this.

I have been using 512ram from day one and I have almost no problems. I know that an upgrade will make things faster, but I’m broke and this is more than tollerable. The trick is to keep dashboard clean (except when you add something and take it away to show off the ripple to your friends) and to avoid using anything but universal binaries (so yes- if you use Photoshop you need more RAM). Thank goodness for things like the GIMP and Abiword (which already have universal binaries out) when it comes to that.

Finally to those who try to compare XP to OS X Tiger- don’t. OS X is at least five year morea advanced than XP. It has a far better permissions system (nothing really bad can go down without my password unlike in most of Windowsland), a graphical interface powered by your graphics card (ala Vista- this is 2006 so its nice to have some cool effects), a search system that makes XP’s look pathetic and amazingly wonderful suspend and resume. On each of this points Vista will once again makes Windows competitive, but just like OS X it will need more ram to be happy then XP. If you don’t care about using a primative system then do what you will- as a technical person I like my computer to feel like its from 2006, not 2002.

Free applications you must have, Google will help you find universal binary version of each. – Abiword, Desktop Manager, Gimpshop, Quartz Desktop, Camino, Coreduotemp, flip_4-mac, Quicksilves, VLC, and Adium. Some of those will make Windows users that care about tech cry (especially Quartz Desktop)!