Red Hat Diaries/0009

Good Stuff

Good stuff? There is plenty of it. The Apple OOBE is fantastic. Apple really makes you understand they care about you. Their instructions are explicit and easy to follow. They include free burnable CDs in the box, both a recovery disk set and an actual OS disk set - you can't have better. Everything oozes quality.

The box will boot into 9.2 and it will dazzle you with its graphics and then it will start talking to you - a nice relaxing and very sexy female voice. (Do they have a male voice for female customers?) The computer will assemble registration information - for once I am not paranoid - and then it will try to set you up on the Internet. This box came with a free trial to Earthlink which we were not going to use. The trick here is to not waste your time setting things up in 9.2 if you are going to run OSX, because you will have to go through the same entire process in OSX again. So get yer butt over to the System Preferences or whatever they're called in 9.2 - you'll see it, you'll recognise it, when you come upon it - you get to choose which folder you're to boot off of - choose the OSX folder and choose to reboot immediately. The same kind of music and sexy female voice will greet you again, but this time the graphics are even more dazzling. Microsoft are a bunch of klutzes in this pack. Now let the software guide you through registration and setup. You get set up for iTools too while you're at it, and you get your very own mac.com email address, which is very cool.

IE comes default on these boxes, so watch out! Microsoft of course has by default enabled all the Java, JavaScript, VB Script and other assorted shite (the nimrods) so turn it off before you do any surfing. And you won't have to use Outlook (phew), you can use Apple Mail instead, which is very cool, and when that irritating annoying pest of an IE asks you whether you want to make IE your default browser - just say no. You'll have IE waiting in the dock anyway.

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