It came with OS X Tiger so I guess I’m ordering Leopard. There was hearsay today about Leopard not supporting Dual-boot with Windows, but seriously, it’s all bollocks people (feeling slightly guilty for picking that as the link keyword, but oh well). Hey I just realised the pic loosely qualifies for LOLcat status (sans caption). It’s running “Tiger”, get it? Must. Stop. Laughing.
First Download: Firefox (well, duh!)
First Customisation: Turn on touchpad tapping, dragging and two-finger right click (OMG mega w00t!)
First Drool: keyboard backlighting (yummy!)
First Design Observation: At first glance, disconnecting the MagSafe power adaptor without yanking on the cord requires Herculean strength. But I found if you kind of lever it off from the side, you can remove it without joining the local gym, or wrecking the cord.
First Annoyance: Software Update has no “I’ll restart later” button. Grrr. One of my pet hates.
First Challenge: somehow I have to get middle click working for Firefox.
First Road Test: time to get some XviD out and try out this FrontRow thing. But if I had half a brain, I would have ordered an S Video adaptor with the MBP.
Stay tuned for more Maccage.
Because you got it after October 1st, you should be able to get Leopard for $10 or $20 or so…
Oh – and if you don’t like the “must restart” thing in Software Update, you can short-circuit that by running it from the command line – “sudo softwareupdate -i -a”. It warns you, but doesn’t have that annoying popup every five minutes.
Cool. I forgot to say, my FujiFilm Finepix F30 connected automatically, without drivers or the crappy Fuji software! Big plus. We should try out this video chat thing one day…