Observations one week after switching :
- The Jaguar UI is beautiful. No doubt about it, this is the best user experience in the industry.
- MS Office apps and documents work almost seamlessly with their Win2k cousins. Almost.
- Apple's Airport card and my home WLAN gateway (an HP gateway) don't work together. It's weird, but every time I fire up the Airport card, my WLAN access point locks up. Requires powering the access point down and restarting. Irritating.
- iCal could be great, but it's still too immature to work for me. And, I need tools for integrating iCal with Outlook calendars. Bring out new revs of it quickly, please....
- After following the instructions at both Apple and Netgear user support sites, my Powerbook still won't recognize the LAN-based print server. So I'm printing via USB, another pain ITA.
- The only pure fun software I bought for the Mac, Myst, doesn't work. It loads, but will not run on OSX. Nuts.
- Sherlock is amazing, great, cool - it's what network-aware apps should be. More, please.
- Networking with PCs isn't as seamless as advertised - though that's probably more the fault of Winblows (as my friend Matt calls it).
- When I work through most of this list, I'll probably bring a new blog up in Movable Type.
Looking at the list, it seems most of my problems or gripes are about integrating the Mac with already-existing PC and home LAN gear. All in all, I'm still glad I spent the cash on the new machine and new environment, but I'd hoped to be farther along creating a good working environment with it. Proves once again - personal computers still aren't easy enough for the masses. Nobody but a tweak would do what I'm doing to make things work.
3:30:15 PM 
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