Yes, I have succumbed to the Apple side….

Posted by Jozzua on Jun 20, 2009 in Random Blabber | 7 comments

Yes, I have succumbed to the Apple side.

I’m now a macbook air user.

Why a macbook air? I’ve been eyeing this device since last year. I prefer lightweight laptops. In a choice between power and portability – I go for the latter. I already own a pretty powerful PC set-up at home. I needed something for mobility.

Although there are cheaper netbooks around, I decided on the Air because of the form factor. A large screen and a non-cramped keyboard was just right for me. I’ve also been curious at the entire Apple experience. My macbook-using friends claim – you won’t go back to a PC.

So when Microwarehouse announced a sale of Apple products – I went shopping. I knew they were probably clearing their inventories since the new OS and macbooks just came out 2 weeks ago. The price of the original macbook air was around P100K. I visited Bonifacio High Street on saw an Air there being sold for P79K. I decided that if the price of the Microwarehouse Apple sale was better, I’d definitely get one.

The Microwarehouse Macbook Air – P71,900.00.

So I bought it. Now, I’m a user. :)

My first problem was to transfer all my music to the the new computer (without writing on a bunch of DVDs). Luckily there were some awesome tips here. I was finished in an hour.

My next problem was installing the accompanying iLife09 CD. The macbook air doesn’t have any CD drives (I didn’t bother to buy one). I tried sharing my windows PC and accessing it through the shared CD application. It was quite slow. I couldn’t fully load the iLife installer. I couldn’t simply copy the iLife09 cd to a hard disk – for some reason windows couldn’t read it.

The solution was this HFS Explorer app that I found online. It allowed me to read the CD and create a .DMG file. Finally, I just copied the installer to my portable hard drive and hooked it up on the mac. Installation of the iLife09 was finished in around 30 mins.

So far so good. Let’s just see my next few weeks with this new baby.