Of Flock and MacBook

I FINALLY bought the MacBook about a week ago. True to form, can't remember the exact date, though I could deduce it if I wanted to :P.
Suffice it to say, I have spent the first week of December drooling all around my new white polycarbonate unibody beauty, trying my level best not to get copious amounts of saliva on the still-pristine keyboard. I tell myself it would be this way even if my last computer had not been a 2003 assembled PC, with 1.66 GhZ processor, 640MB of DDR RAM and a monitor that needed gamma adjustments every time I booted.

Over this week...
I have ecstatically clicked on three apps at once, confident that my computer wouldn't stall for the next three minutes.
I have oohed and aahed over the fact that my PC... er... comp takes less time to boot than my router does. We'll overlook the fact that my colossal ignorance has prevented me from taking advantage of wireless Internet yet. Let's hope that gets remedied soon!
I have lamented the fact that my complete Freud eBook is in .hlp format(that's Windows Help), and am trying to work up the enthu to fire up my ancient desktop, decompile it and put it back together as an HTML archive. No, I'm not as tech-savvy as I sound. I know what these things are called, but can't do them.
I have suddenly realized that there is a shitload of noisy construction going on in the neighborhood. I never heard it over the sound of my PC. Yeah, a fan cleaning has been long, long due!
I can sit facing the window of my room, under the ceiling fan, instead of staring at walls and the door while I work. Wheee!
I tried to find a substitute for Windows' "F5" for refresh. I found it - Cmd-R. I tried to find a substitute for Windows' "F11" - the key that turns browsers into full-screen view. I failed.
I have discovered Scrivener Gold - my annotations just became that much easier! Been thinking about trying WriteRoom, but the change in file formats is seriously annoying. I'm wondering whether to get hold of iWork - Pages and the whole deal.
I am wondering how to get rid of Time Machine - I want to access every ounce of power that I can out of this well-endowed beauty of mine ;-).
I have kept touching the trackpad, just because it scrolled at a rate that matched my mind. Or maybe because ... you know, because the warmth of the glass, the ability to stroke it and watch it read my mind is a sensual experience beyond compare. Oh, and the fact that I can view the latest wallpaper on display with one stroke of my hand - emptying my screen for as long as I wish? Priceless :D.

I have set up Flock, the browser, with this gmail account. That explains the recent spurt in Facebook and Twitter activity, for those of you who have befriended me on those services.
I have wished - and still wish - that Flock supported multiple users - each with his/her own set of email, blog and social media accounts.
I am insanely grateful that I don't need NoScript any more. Bloody resource hog! Oh wait, the resource hogging wouldn't hurt me that much right now :-D.

Gah, now my Mac has decided to update. This means over 700 MB of downloads. Lets' hope I can post this, coz I'm totally gonna wrap up now.

PS: People who want Macbooks in Kolkata, check out MacIntel Solutions, 3 Parasar Rd, behind Lake Market. The staff were almost unbelievably cooperative, even coming over to my place to get my certificates for the 6% education discount. But what really won me over was the looks I saw on the faces when they opened the MacBook - that reverent, enthusiastic look of love that I see on all die-hard Apple lovers. Yup, these people love what they do!
In fact, one of the partners actually uses an iBook G4, and they have one of the first ever iMacs in their office - running Tiger, nothing less! Well, the bubbling-over enthusiasm in this post is mostly due to the MacBook rather than MacIntel Solutions, but my recommendation still stands. Smooth deal, good deal, and a 400-rupee discount because I wheedled or because I didn't wheedle enough :-).

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