{"id":84,"date":"2007-12-18T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/it-just-works\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T02:42:59","slug":"it-just-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/it-just-works\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pics\/view\/misc\/macbook\/\" title=\"Finally!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/download\/4239-2\/DSCN1077.JPG\" alt=\"Finally!\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Finally, after completing my Christmas shopping, I lucked out and got my MacBook.  Future Shop was clearing them out and I took the opportunity to cash in my points and take the plunge.  I ended up buying the same model as I <a href=\"\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/macbook-baby\/\" title=\"originally planned\">originally planned<\/a>, but in white (apparently there&#8217;s a significant price diff for the colour).  I declined the &#8220;extended service plan&#8221; due to my bad past experiences with them (it comes with a one-year warranty from Apple).<\/p>\n<p>Whoever said it just works is right.  I was up and running in no time.  No need to search for digital camera software, I just plug in and it works.  Same with my printer and iPod.  In about an hour, I was upgraded to Leopard and the latest software updates and up and running on my wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>I then downloaded NeoOffice, Skype and Adium and I was off to the races.  All this ease, and with the flexibility to use the native UNIX core when I want.   Porting over and plugging in my content (music, photos, etc.) was a snap.  Smooth sailing ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Some initial thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the corded mouse (I didn&#8217;t want a cordless and the battery dependencies that came with it) has a mighty short cord, which is not bad, but a bit iffy when the USB port is on the left of the MacBook (I&#8217;m a right handed mouse guy)<\/li>\n<li>What do folks do about warranty?  Is it better to buy an AppleCare package?<\/li>\n<li>Say I wanted to build MapServer, is there a specific\/preferred way to do this?  Maybe I&#8217;ll ask Steve (Lime) or hobu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I just need a way to manage my bookmarks across browsers&#8230;<\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.css\" \/>\n<!--[if lte IE 8]>\n  <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.ie.css\" \/>\n<![endif]-->\n<script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.js\"><\/script>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">#map84 { width: 300px; height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"map84\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  var map84 = L.map('map84').setView([43.620495, -79.513198], 10);\n  L.tileLayer('http:\/\/{s}.tile.osm.org\/{z}\/{x}\/{y}.png', {\n      attribution: '&copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/osm.org\/copyright\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> contributors'\n  }).addTo(map84);\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after completing my Christmas shopping, I lucked out and got my MacBook. Future Shop was clearing them out and I took the opportunity to cash in my points and take the plunge. I ended up buying the same model as I originally planned, but in white (apparently there&#8217;s a significant price diff for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}