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MacBook Air

So I ordered a new MacBook Air a week or so ago on a Friday. It started in Shanghai, China and by Tuesday, it was on my doorstep. That amazes me.

The device is also pretty nice. It is light, works fast, and I can use it pretty well. The key to efficient working though is the swiping. It has Lion so with appropriate gestures I can swipe back and forth between screens, go full screen on Safari (right now, I am doing that), launch an app with some swiping, etc. I love it.

I have not installed flash though I did install Chrome which comes with its own flash. I like browsing without flash. So far, I have not installed Firefox either. I see no point. Most of my time is in Safari full screen.

I am learning keyboard commands better. This size rather forces it. Finally, I am using gmail without a mouse. Can’t believe it took me so long. I did try the new mail app from Apple. It is nice, but the delete vs. archive issue trips me up. I saw no real advantage to switching so I went back to gmail.

I was amazed at all the dependencies I need. I had to install 1Password to access my sites and install DropBox to get the master file. I had to install git and textmate for development–still need to install node.js For my records, evernote. For my class, neoOffice (open office for mac) and GeoGebra.

Finally, I don’t have my iTunes, but that’s okay because Spotify just came out and now I have 15 million songs to choose from. So I choose none. Or maybe Meat Loaf.

I have been programming on it. Again the swiping is wonderful. I have textmate in one desktop, browser with console open in another to test the page, and then a full screen safari for looking stuff up. To sync my computers, I setup a github account and am using GitHub for Mac which is wonderful to use. I will be posting soon about that project, something that could finally realize my dreams from almost two decades ago. It combines node.js, websockets from socket.io, MathJax, JSXGraph, and, of course, jQuery, to make something that should have been made 10 years ago but as far as I can tell, has not been.

Right now, I am typing from my bedroom while my baby snores next to my very lovely wife. I am loving it. A natural question is, what do I use my devices for? Do I use them all? Yes, in fact, today I used all of my Apple devices:

1. MacBook Air (Jul 2011) gets the Lion share of my time.

2. ScarMac (27in iMac Oct 2009) use for living room music, some course stuff, multiple window copying, iPhoto-to-Flickr relay. Lion is not so impressive on that machine. Full-screen Safari on that screen is ridiculous. The magic mouse does not have all the gestures of the trackpad. Smooth upgrade though.

3. iPhone 4 (Jun 2010) use FaceTime with my parents today, take pictures and videos of baby.

4. iPad (Apr 2010) web-browsing, PDF reading, quick mail check (less so now with MacBook Air).

5. iPod Touch (Mar 2009) playing music, both from iTunes library and Acoustic Cafe (Sundays) from the radio station the Bay via their app.

6. Snow Mac (MacBook September 2007) is my wife’s machine and she uses and shares what she is doing with me.

I love Apple products. They frustrate me at times, but mainly they are a joy to use. And getting better all the time. If I had to choose, well, I think it would be a toss up between MacBook Air and iPhone. They are both just very useful and portable for their relative sizes.

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