Today I’m recording another episode of the EduKast podcast (in Dutch). So it is time to think about how I feel about the Macbook after one and a half week.
I have to say, after that first day I hadn’t thought I would actually start liking working on it. Not using the Mighty Mouse that came with the Macbook btw because even with the two button mode enabled it often doesn’t detect the right click when I want it to. But a regular two button mouse works good enough.
I had a Twitter conversation with Fred Zelders, a long time Mac user, about my experiences so far andhe suggested installing XP or Vista alongside Mac OSX. I haven’t tried Parallels or Fusion yet though. I understand that they might require a bit more memory than the 1GB I’ve got installed and given the fact that is still isn’t my Macbook, spending money on either of them (and on a Vista license) hasn’t been at the top of my priority list.
Keeping a log of my experiences using the Macbook has costed some extra time but I’m sure it will help my colleagues to get to know the Macbook quicker once they have a go at it. I’m not sure if I can keep up the steady stream of posts, but if not, at least I’ve got the archive so far.
I’m a bit worried about the domain name thouh. I had registered it before realising that Apple doesn’t always play nice with sites that have a URL which includes one of their trademarks. So maybe I get a mail from one of their lawyers one day soon. We’ll see. Just be on the safe side I made absolutely sure that no infringement of any trademark is intended by including that information in the footer.
Until now I haven’t posted any links to the blog on either my personal blog or sites like Technorati. Maybe now the amount of posts is big enough to start doing that.
I have made a post to my weblog about your website. Hopefully that’s ok?
http://ictcafe.kennisnet.nl/blog/2007/09/pierre-gorrissen-en-zijn-macbook.html
Sure, no problem. Thank you for the post!
Hi Pierre,
I started just recently at NHTV in Breda. They also use Natschool. I have become a mac-user at the university of Nijmegen and I really intend to buy a MacBookPro to use it for audio and video editing, graphic and webdesign, online content management and so. Getting access to the Novell network will be a problem. But for that I could use the standard desktop PC.
I am just curious if you managed to get into Natschool on your MacBook. Did you use Crossover or Parallels, or Virtual PC and installing Windows XP (both licensed through SurfSpot), in order to install IE 6.0 on Windows??
I hope that will be the solution, so that I can choose for a MacBook Pro.
You may answer me also by e-mail and in Dutch…
Many thanks for your answer, greetings from Breda,
Klaus Hoven
Hi Klaus,
Natschool version 10 supports Firefox and runs on Mac OS X without a problem.
The release of NS version 10 was the reason why we bought a Macbook, we wanted to be able to test any problems ourselves. But so far, I’ve been just using it to learn to use a Mac due to lack of problems.
Note: there is still a client version of NS needed for teachers/staff when preparing tests and courses. That part isn’t available through the browser yet. I haven’t tried that using Parallels yet.