I've been slowly learning my way around, figuring out how everything works. It's amazing how many things I had to hack and kludge in Windows are designed into Mac. Two simple examples: I had a program called AllChars installed so I could chord-compose accented and European characters, like è or ø or å. That's built in on Mac. Or, I had a program called Find & Run Robot, so I could hit the Break button, type a few letters of a program's name, and it would search for it and let me launch it. This lets me start programs without having to mouse around awkwardly and dig through menus. Spotlight is built into my MacBook and it does that. Every little thing smacks of "wow, somebody thought of that and decided to make it easy". It's really amazing. This thing is just gorgeous. Oh, by the way: the keyboard senses the ambient light and if it's dark, there are lights underneath the keys that come on so you can see. The power connector is magnetically attached to the laptop, so if you trip over the cord, you don't make the whole laptop fall off the table-the cord simply disconnects and the laptop stays on the table, unharmed. There's an eject button on the keyboard, so you can eject a cd or dvd. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many beautiful, subtle touches there are.

Even though I can put Windows on it, so I can work on Windows stuff if I need to, it feels like it would be sacrilege. I'm going to avoid doing so for as long as possible, hopefully forever.