My new toy arrived yesterday. It’s a 20″ iMac, 1 GB of RAM, 160 GB hard drive, SuperDrive and the Airport Extreme card built in. It’s quite nice. In retrospect, I probably should have sprung for the 250 GB hard drive, but I was already spending quite enough as it was. (I’m used to building my own machines, so I’m kind of a cheap bastard when it comes to spending money on new computers… I usually bring in a new computer for less than $1K…)
I’ve dubbed him Zaphod, in honor of Douglas Adams, since Adams was a major proponent of Macs. Haven’t quite figured out what place in the household that Zaphod should live in. He looks terribly comfortable in the living room, but I’m thinking upstairs in the workroom would be more productive.
So far, I’ve spent several hours installing software using Fink, so I can use some of the tools I’m used to on Linux – NcFTP, wget, etc. I’m quite pleased that Fink uses Debian’s dpkg and APT front-end so I don’t have to learn yet another set of package management tools.
I’m still getting used to a few shortcomings in the OS X interface — namely, the lack of the ability to cut and paste using the middle button instead of having to highlight, click “Copy” and then “Paste,” and the fact that OS X only has one workspace… I love the feature in Xfce that allows you to scroll between workspaces by using the mouse wheel. I wonder if there’s a utility to give the Mac workspaces?
