Nate Knows Nada

So I’ve had the new Powerbook for a couple of days now.  Some quick impressions:

• The size is actually pretty nice.  It can feel a bit small
  at times, but for about the same price as the difference between the
  two models I was considering, I can get a 17″ or 19″ monitor and
  external keyboard (already having an external wired mouse).  But
  once I get  a little carrying case, the portability seems quite
  nice.  That said, if Apple released a 14″ PB when the intels come
  out (same size as the big iBook), I’d be interested….
• OS X is better than I thought.  I love Spotlight.  This
  is the feature that’s like Google Desktop on WinXP.  Type in a
  word or phrase, and it pulls up every file where that occurs, not just
  in the title but also in the actual contents….  For example,
  “jelly” brings up 9 files.  Weird and totally cool.
• The transfer to OS X was prety easy.  All my documents came
  right over, since much of my work is on MS Office.  My Eudora data
  was a bit harder, but I found a set of programs at Andreas Amann’s site to deal with the transition from Eudora (even Windows Eudora) to Apple Mail.  Specifically, Eudora Mailbox Cleaner
  not only converts Eudora mailboxes, but it also converts the nickname
  database into a format that Address Book in OS X can easily deal with.
  (BTW, is Apple Mail in an interchageable format?  Does any reader
  know?)
• In essence, I got most of my stuff moved off my external hard
  drive to the Powerbook AND set up most of how I want to work in about
  three or four hours.  Not hard at all.

More to come as I encounter it.

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