Today, I purchased my first Mac. It’s a Mac Mini 1.42GHz with Combo Drive to be precise. Set up was a breeze, everything came preinstalled and I just had to fill in my details such as name, password, contact details, etc. and it’s all ready to go.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The software update feature is also easy; it immediately let me know what needed to be updated and just a few clicks later, it started downloading and installing. In some ways, it’s even easier than Windows Update. Additionally, I also downloaded and installed Firefox versions 1.0.7 and 1.5rc2 with ease and I must say that dragging an icon to the Applications folder is a much quicker and easier installation than any Windows installer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Now that I’ve been playing with it for just a few hours, I’ve already managed to connect it to my phone via bluetooth, synchronise my calendar and contact information (which I couldn’t do on Windows without resorting to MS Outlook and, naturally, I refused to do that. I’m quite sure I’ll have a lot more to play and experement with as I learn the ins and outs of OSX.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
One difficulty I am having, though, is that the keyboard shortcuts I’m used to don’t seem to function in the same way that they do on Windows; at least not not in Firefox as I’m writing this. For example, the home<\/kbd> and end<\/kbd> keys go to the beginning and end of the text area, rather than the current line; I have to use ?<\/kbd> where I would normally use Ctrl<\/kbd>; and my usual undo (<\/kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+Backspace<\/kbd>), cut (<\/kbd>Shift<\/kbd>+Del<\/kbd>), copy (<\/kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+Insert<\/kbd>) and paste (<\/kbd>Shift<\/kbd>+Insert<\/kbd>) don’t work, I have to use <\/kbd>?<\/kbd>+Z<\/kbd>, <\/kbd>?<\/kbd>+X<\/kbd>, <\/kbd>?<\/kbd>+C<\/kbd> and <\/kbd>?<\/kbd>+V<\/kbd> instead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Well, I’ve got a lot to learn, and not much time to do it. Any usage tips to help me out with this new toy would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All about my new Mac mini.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}