Migrating to Mac

Visiting Friends in Alberta

It’s been a week now since the School District kindly provided me with a Mac laptop to facilitate creating and sharing multimedia in the classroom. While relatively pricy there really isn’t anything in the PC world to match the MacBook Pro.

I was on holidays in Alberta and purchased the computer at the University of Alberta’s Book Store. It was a pleasant and painless experience especially considering that someone else was paying the tab. With the computer I also bought the iWorks bundle of programs. Next I was off to Starbucks to set the thing up. I suppose if I had read the instructions and watched the tutorials it might have been a little faster to get up to speed, but the setup was so intuitive that just about everything worked flawlessly. And hey, what can I say, I’m a guy.

On a side note having a Mac really makes working with my iPod touch a lot easier. The integration between the two is really slick. I look forward to exploring the educational possibilities of the Mac-iPod combination.

Email, pictures and sound files were all easy to create and and share. I am waiting for the video editing program Final Cut Pro to arrive, but in the meantime I was pleasantly surprised with the free iMovie program that came with the Mac. I used it to edit a video about an end of year event that we had at school – Nature Day.

The only task that I have been procrastinating about is wrestling my address book off of my PC. Who knows, maybe it will prove to be as easy as everything else with the Mac.