Friends don't let friends buy Macs. Somebody may need to do an intervention here.

All kidding aside, enjoy your new machine!

"I just read that Tom Delay is stepping down. No biggie - I always got him confused with Trent Lott anyway."

Heh. Me too. I thought I was just weird that way.

I saw him at the St. Regis not too long ago, and he was looking a little... meh. I think he needs to take his winnings, lay down his hand and quit the unholy game of politics at this point.

Just bought my second Mac: MacBook Pro, with 1 gig of RAM, a 100 gig hard drive, 2 gig Hz. (My four-year-old PowerBook G4 suffered a broken hinge after years of hard use and faithful service.)

The 'migration' of settings, docs, etc., from the old Mac to the new Mac was automatic, painless, and flawless with a firewire connection during the initial boot up.

All my settings, stored passwords, desktop photo, a library of 5,500 photos, mail options, files on the desktop, were all there in the new one when boot-up was complete the first time. Even my preferences for the touchpad were transferred.

I LOVE my Macs! (And your site.)

Bill Hensley

One thing that seems to bite Windows users on Macs is that the Mac OS does not quit an application when you close all its windows. A lot of my PC using friends end up with a dozen apps open and eating memory and not doing anything. Good luck with the new system.

RE: "I just read that Tom Delay is stepping down. No biggie - I always got him confused with Trent Lott anyway."
Yeah, me too. All those white Southern politicians look alike to me.

Have fun with the MAC OS. I got mine a couple of years ago. It doesn't do everything that I want it to do, and it doesn't run all the software that I want. However, what it does, it does very well -- much better that Windoze. I like it.

again, the KoolAid is GREAT!

Enjoy your Mac. I switched over nine years ago and have never regretted the change.

You're getting a Mac? Oh no! The smug will be unbearable, when the smug of all those Mac-huggers gets together, it'll be a smug storm of monumental proportions. We'll never survive!

Severian, we feel for you. Really, we do. After all, here we are, using computers that are actually cool, with stable and secure operating systems, having fun while getting work done, while you struggle with a solidified blob of WinDoze miasma. But don't fret. Im sure that Hugh will be more than happy to come over and invest an entire Saturday cleaning up your machine, so that it's at least *cough*useable*cough* And then, next month, return to do it all again.

It's enough to make a guy ... bemused.
;)

Well, PSGInfinity, I'm a guy who managed to keep a laptop (two actually) running WinME running and stable for 3 years! So I don't have problems with Windoze machines...;-)

Severian,

That's impressive. No, seriously.

-> For those non-PC heads out there, Windows Millenium Edition (WinME) was arguably the worst OS egg Microsoft ever laid. Mercifully, it's dead now, and WinXP Home, its replacement, is much, much better...

--> Yes, I know XP Pro is 'the same, only better'. But for home (as opposed to corporate work-at-home) users, is it?

The Kool-Aid is even better with a few shots of Vodka.

M-hey.

My husband just got his first Mac. We've had innumerable computers of various sorts running Windows (or what came before) or Unix or Xenix (?).. even a refigerator sized mainframe purchased at a UC Irvine surplus auction. Our domestic LAN has six computers on it.

He always said Windows was broken but there was always a reason to stick with it.

Future computers will probably be Macs. The initial exhuberance has, indeed, mellowed to smugness. Why would anyone use a broken OS if they didn't have to? Smug is an *excellent* descriptor.