Me Oh MAC!

Well, I don't quite know what I have done..or what I am doing - basically fumbling around in the dark for the most part I think....
Yep...I am the proud(?) owner of a brand new MacBookPro and I can tell I have a lot to learn as it's really rather different from using a PC!

I made my debut into the PC computing world in the early 80's when you used DOS to run a machine that had a teeny weeny screen and used squares of floppy plastic for disk drives! Things have come a long way since then, and so have I. A few years ago, in search of a new career I went back to school for 18 months and attained the dubious qualification of "network engineer", supposedly endowing me with the skills to run a network and understand the innards of a PC backwards and forwards. It turned out not to be "quite" my cup of tea and although I have enjoyed using the knowledge that I gained, spending my days cloistered with Servers and nutting out the foibles of large networks turned out to be far from appealing.

Unfortunately all that I have learnt about computers in the last xx many years helps me not with my MAC...so it's back to basics and taking small steps to learn a new system, a new way and hopefully before too long I will have mastered some degree of efficient workflow.
(and NO, I am not throwing out my three other PC's - just in case!)

Comments

[katie]

hey marie :-)
walter and i just talked this very morning about me getting a mac. after reading your post, i think maybe i won't...i only know basic computer pc stuff but i still don't want to sstart from scratch. good luck!!!
thinking of you xox

[ro bruhn]

Welcome to the real world now Marie, once you're hooked you'll never go back to the pc. Although, I wasn't too happy with my Mac the last two days at work. I installed the new Leopard operating system and one of my programs disagreed with it, between them they corrupted my hard drive and I lost everything, luckily my work was backed up, but I now have to reinstall programs, fonts, settings etc. However, this is the first time this has happened to me over 16 years of Macs so I suppose that's a pretty good record.
Happy Mac.
Ro
xo