New Macintosh
Finally here!
Well I finally got the Macintosh after all the saga. I got a Macbook Pro 15", with a 7200 rpm hard drive and 2GB memory at a good price off Infinite Systems in Charlotte St Brisbane. I also got an Apple keyboard and a cheap Logitech bluetooth mouse.
There was only one glitch getting it going, that was it didn't seem to like my wireless network. There were no real options to configure the wireless apart from the network SSID and a 'password' field. I dragged out the Dell and tried six ways to Sunday to configure the wireless network to force the Mac to recognise it. No dice. I decided to haul out the long ethernet cable and didn't bother to configure a wireless network, and I set it back to the default configuration (shared key WEP 64 bit ascii passwd). The funny thing was, as soon as I connected the ethernet, and got started, I opened the OSX System Preferences and could instantly and could instantly see all the familiar wireless options and got the Mac talking on the wireless network in next to no time.
The only other glitch so far was that I went and downloaded Firefox from teh Firefox website. Safari saved some file called 'Firefox 1.5.0.6.dmg' on the desktop and I have no idea if this is an installer file or what. Double clicking on it produces no visible action from it, so I'm stuck with Safari until I figure that one out.
Now the update icon is jumping up and down at me -- I think the update download is finished. Time to check that out.