After several months of tolerating all those spam and malware that don’t seem to ever go away from my PC, and with my having no PC formatting skills nor interest, I’ve finally decided late last year to get myself a Mac notebook and say goodbye to those annoying programs that make my PC have a life of its own when I connect to the Internet.
Now I have Santi. It’s short for Santiago (a reminder of one of my favorite places in Spain: Santiago de Compostela). And before I go any further about him, let me just say (to the tune of Black Eyed Peas’ “My Hump”): My Mac. My Mac. My Mac. My Mac. Check it out! :P
Now, Santi is a nifty little Macintosh notebook with a 12-inch screen and a nice user interface with the Mac OS X Tiger. Santi came with a really cool-looking box/package and a free HP printer. But it’s Santi of course that happens to be cooler. hehe!
The major reasons I got Santi:
1. I am more used to working with notebooks rather than desktop PCs and find it easier to use a trackpad and keyboard shortcuts than using a mouse all the time.
2. The notebook has to be lighter and smaller than my previous one (a black box of a Compaq notebook) and ease the load off my back. Am not overly concerned with having big screens at the moment if it will only add to the load.
3. I needed something that is not so vulnerable to viruses and malware when connected to the Internet.
4. Portability: something I can easily bring anywhere.
5. Has wireless networking/Internet capabilities. - I just finished downloading a set of photos from my Sony Ericsson mobile phone to Santi using Bluetooth. And it was really easy. Bluetooth is turned on with Santi and the file transfer just went zippideedoodah to him. It is much more convenient and really beats having to plug in a USB cable for me to transfer files from another device. (Hooray to Bluetooth technology there as well.)
It so happens that Santi fits the bill. Am right now writing this on Santi’s AppleWorks application while I’m seated on a couch enjoying my weekend at home, though Santi also has Microsoft Office for Mac. Might as well try something new that’s there.
Santi is really meant for my home use. However, I find myself also contemplating on whether I should outfit him with work-related apps: IBM Eclipse, some other Java/J2EE development software, JVM, and UML modeling tools, or should I just stick to keeping Santi as work-free as possible. However, I’ve already given Santi some text-based Java references. Hmmm.
In the meantime, am also waiting for Santi to go to sleep and lose some power so that I can finish calibrating his battery and I can go to sleep as well.
Asi que, am happy with Santi so far. And hope to do some more tweaking til I get the best possible user interface experience from it: keyboard and navigation shortcuts, text navigation without relying too much on the trackpad/mouse to move the cursor from one point to the next much more easily, etc. That and getting some more Mac use info from Macintosh forums on the Net. Time to connect. Zippeedoodah! Zippeedee-yay. My of my how cool Santi is hey. :-)
