Well, as you can tell by the presence of this post, I bought the Mac. H will be delighted so I don't feel too awful about spending that much money. He can't access many websites from his work laptop so he regularly borrows mine to find what he's looking for, which irritates both of us. And a Mac with all the lovely imovie-type software is just the ticket for that increase in photo taking and home film-making that we hope will start sometime in September. It's really silly to buy one here when I could have bought one in the US for half the price. But I'm not doing any more long haul travel until the baby can come with me, as a separate person, so if we want a Mac any time soon we have to pay UK retail prices. Ouch.
It's been 8 years since I've regularly used a Mac, but my love for them has in no way diminished. They've only grown more beautiful, not to mention faster and with better software. Just touching this MacBookPro is making me happy. The brush against the metal, the resolution of the screen, it's all, just so yummy.
Sorry, lost myself there for a minute.
I now need a bunch of technical help. I managed to download Firefox but it doesn't seem to have loaded properly - it's sitting on the desktop as if it's a separate disk. I downloaded Acrobat but Firefox doesn't recognise that it's there. Any ideas? I also can't turn off the underlined links thing in Firefox - I think it makes things look very messy so I always turn it off in IE.
Although I haven't had the relaxing day I had planned, I did go and spend an entertaining couple of hours (I had no idea how long I'd spent til I got home) in West London's new foodie mecca. It's a very seductive place. I don't usually get to do the food shopping as H has us set up with a weekly delivery of an organic veggie box, and he picks up the other stuff we need himself at our local providers. I'm a very bad food shopper. I buy what looks good with only a small care for what we might actually cook with it. So I've come home with very exotic items, like soft tortillas and salsa, some oven roasted tomatoes and some fresh heirloom tomatoes the like of which I've never seen in this country before; and some simply extra delicious items, like British organic strawberries. I do have a plan. I'm going to roast some corn-fed organic chicken thighs with lemon and basil for dinner, and eat them with some new potatoes and asparagus. I've already snacked on some edamame. For dessert I'll have some of those strawberries with cream. Then for H tomorrow night, not that he deserves it, I'll make a butternut squash curry with chicken, ginger, chard, and thai red curry paste, and we'll have roasted peaches for dessert.
I'm feeling a bit crampy now but I'm hoping it's the passenger settling down after a busy day. More water is on the horizon, and I need to start cooking. Tomorrow I'll get on with relaxing.
I love my ibook... LOVE the thing. As for firefox - have you tried Safari? I really like it. I know it irritates D, but I love the thing and never have any problems. Works easily too.
Hope the passenger settled down and hope you have a good weekend.. Let me just say am very jealous of the new mac - I recently drooled over the power book at the apple store.
Posted by: Sami | Saturday, 23 June 2007 at 22:17
I'm a long-time lurker, but as a fellow mac lover, it sounds like this is an excellent time to comment!
I am assuming you downloaded Firefox as a diskimage (.dmg) file. When you double-click on it, it mounts a disk image and acts like a separate disk. You will need to open that disk image (double-click) and drag Firefox to your Applications folder, where it will install Firefox.
I keep a shortcut to my Applications folder in my Dock for easy installing.
Hope that works for you!
Posted by: ZTZCheese | Saturday, 23 June 2007 at 23:16
Glad you're loving your Mac purchase! I'm typing at the moment on a MacBook Pro. Love it, but we're all on G4 or G5s in our office.
Your dinner tonight and tomorrow sounds wonderful! Enjoy! Now I'm very hungry so I'll get dinner underway on this side of the Atlantic...
Hope you're feeling better with your little passenger. Have a wonderful weekend!
Posted by: Anna | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 01:31
I just looove retail therapy, but I'm a complete dunce when it comes to all things technical so have zero help for you whatsoever! Enjoy your new Mac...
Posted by: Patience | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 01:53
What kind of Mac? I'm considering a laptop to replace this stationary thing, but I have no idea how to compare them feature wise to PCs. Did you go for the tiny little one or bigger?
Posted by: Aurelia | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 04:25
First! Don't forget to practise your home movie making by entering the Internatinal Infertility Film Festival.
Second! Congrats on your purchase. Can't give you tech help, but have fun with it... I always do with those things...
Bea
Posted by: Bea | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 05:02
My husband has a Mac computer and laptop. He loves them! I think you'll enjoy your purchase.
Posted by: Overwhelmed! | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 06:46
Yay, here another Macbookpro lover. Don't you just love that the keys light up automatically when it gets dark?! After copying firefox to the applications folder you can just eject that funny firefox disk on the desktop.
Posted by: heleen | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 08:52
Dear Thalia, isn't it lovely to have a new Mac? Oh, the possibilities!
I see ZTZCheese has already answered your question about the .dmg file. As for the underlined hyperlinks, you'll find that in a rather unexpected place: in Firefox/Preferences (drop-down menu), select the "Content" tab. Under "Fonts & Colors", click on "Colors". Under "Link Colors", uncheck the box "Underline links", and Bob's your uncle.
I'm sorry to hear about the crampiness. My passenger has been getting a little irritable lately when I've overdone it, especially in the heat. Scary stuff. I hope your cooking (yum!) and relaxing has calmed her down.
Posted by: Kath | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 09:55
I have no idea about the computer stuff, but I really want to come over for dinner :)
Posted by: Jenn | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 15:14
yay! Macs rule. I have 3 of them and I use them all. Firefox also rules. I know the mac folks are trying to do a relaunch of safari- but so many sites just look crap in safari.
xo
Posted by: Calliope | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 15:42
I haven't used a Mac in 12 years, so I'm no help there. Your dinner sounds devine. You've given me some good ideas for my grocery trip this afternoon.
Posted by: Melissa | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 16:35
I'm a Mac user too, as my department uses them and therefore my "work" laptop is a Powerbook. They are v. nice - if you need any tech support give me a shout - we've talked my mum through various things over the phone!
Posted by: katie | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 20:05
I was about to post the answer to your question, but it looks like it's already been answered :) Hope you're having a wonderful weekend playing with your new mac!
Posted by: Kay/Hanazono | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 20:06
Sounds like a great day to me. Great menu too. Glad you get to stop flying soon.
Posted by: Betty M | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 20:47
can't help you with the firefox problem. I had a lot of problems with firefox and I've switched to Camino for browsing and I love it.
Posted by: Karen | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 21:16
3 macs in our house. We love them.
I read the bit where you "lost yourself for a minute" to my husband and we both laughed ourselves silly. We can relate.
Posted by: May | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 21:51
Ooh ooh ooh! I am SO excited! Guess what I did yesterday (Saturday)? Yes, I did, I bought myself a MacBook Pro too! Because the usual computer was having hissy fits, and I had been saving up for a laptop for ages, and so yesterday I snapped and marched into town and jolly well went and got the shiny lovely shiny gorgeous object of my lusts.
My own H is also delighted, because he's a bit of a MacHead and I am 'graciously allowing' him to set it all up for me...
Excuse me, must just go and stroke my new toy in a possessive manner.
Posted by: May | Sunday, 24 June 2007 at 22:34
I'm going to be in West London in a little under a month! I'll add the whole foods market to my list of sights to take in while I'm there.
Your Mac sounds awesome! I have no assvice re Friefox because I'm not a Mac user but I hope it all works out. Enjoy!
Posted by: Flicka | Monday, 25 June 2007 at 12:36
So jealous! I so want a mac.
Posted by: Mary Ellen | Monday, 25 June 2007 at 16:25
Serious technology envy going on over here... *drool*
Have fun with your new mac
*pets mac*
Posted by: cat | Monday, 25 June 2007 at 18:12
Oh, how I love, love, love my Mac. I got an iMac desktop, because I won't be traveling without lugging baby stuff until its time to upgrade. Then, I'll get a MacBook. Whoops, now I'm off on my own Mac tangent.
Anyway...the photo/movie software is amazing. And yes, indeed, you will be using it quite a bit this fall!!
Posted by: Megan | Monday, 25 June 2007 at 18:57
Congrats on your new Mac! I LOVE my iBook (a bit older but still wonderful!). Looks like your configuration Qs have been answered already (let me know if not). :)
Posted by: Tonya | Tuesday, 26 June 2007 at 06:03
I'm a PC girl myself, but your Mac sounds wonderful. And your dinner sounds delicious. Mmm.. hungry now.
Posted by: kristi | Tuesday, 26 June 2007 at 17:55
Congrats on the Mac purchase!
Now please post those recipes, the butternut squash one has me drooling.
Posted by: beagle | Wednesday, 27 June 2007 at 17:06