A Mac lover?

Not yet.

Once I figured out how to override the silly default name for the new computer, I named my baby "Rose" after Rose Tyler in Dr. Who. I've actually read the manual that came with the Mac, which wasn't too extensive. Mostly I've been doing "what is it that I want to do" and then try to figure out using help how to achieve that.

Everything was going fine until I wanted to connect to my PC - something I was assured would be "trivial", and I actually believed that, how naive of me. Now as far as I could see, I did everything right - and I was able to connect from my PC to Rose so the network connection was fine (new wireless router, by the way). I googled, I tried different configurations - but it might not be my fault. According to Google and Macwindows.com, Tiger seems to have a pretty damn fatal bug in it as SMB mounting is broken. Most people seem to be working in a work environment or such and trying to connect to servers - but I bet me trying to connect to Windows XP Home machine is exactly the same issue. Unless someone can tell me otherwise... any readers with the same configuration that's actually working?

So what now? I understand Tiger is just out, but I assume updates are coming in regular intervals... I have set Rose to download updates automatically so hopefully this will solve itself. But so far I'm not too impressed - one of the most important things I wanted to do is not possible. My other gripe is the mouse - or the lack of it - I just don't like the touchpad, so I might want to buy a proper mouse, only Macs don't have proper mice. I'm really really missing another mouse button, but I'm hoping that's just a matter of getting used to.

On the other hand, OS X looks lovely. It seems fairly intuitive to use, and has lots of charming animations on the functions that I could just stare forever. When I minimize a window it disappears to the dock like a genie to it's lamp. The Dashboard widgets are cool and I already have a lot more of them than I really need - but they are just fab.

All this, and I baked a cheesecake too. Rose has already proved useful - I was making dulche de leche (Latin American version of fudge) which takes over an hour of stirring as you don't want the milk to burn, and I burned an episode of Law & Order I had recorded the previous night on the DVR on DVD and watched it while stirring. Only problem was that I couldn't get the sound very loud - I set it loudest as far as I could see and that was just about enough. But if there's some kind of big volume control setting somewhere I haven't found it yet.

The journey continues.

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