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Well, the iMac has arrived

It came a couple of days ago, but been a bit busy so didn’t blog about it until now :-p I really really love it! Awesome design, looks totally sexy, and Mac OSX is brilliant There are a couple things I need to get used to. I’ve already got pretty much everything down, but on the PC I used to do a lot of programming and used such key combos like CTRL+[backspace/arrow keys] and SHIFT+[home/end] to navigate/select text. On the Mac the key bindings are a bit different.

One of the first apps I downloaded was TextMate, and it is everything I thought it’d be I was a big fan of EditPlus on the PC because I prefer simple editors when I don’t need an IDE. TextMate is like EditPlus in simplicity and efficiency, but like an IDE in features. After you get used to the keyword expansions, you can create a full HTML document in 30 seconds by just typing the first couple of characters of a tag and just tab expanding it etc. Very good app.

I’m already using the Mac more often then I’m using my PC except for work. I still have to get my prefered server environment (Apache, PHP and MySQL) set up and working on the Mac. So far I’ve encountered no program that I need or cannot get on the Mac. I do however have to say I do miss mIRC and FlashFXP. X-Chat for IRC is just alright, but I’m not liking the FTP clients available. That’s probably just because I’m so used to using FlashFXP… Floris says I’ll get used to using Transmit. We’ll see

Uhm, so yeah. Everything just works and is beautiful I did take some pics, but they’re not very good. I was a tad more interested in getting the thing set up then taking pics to satisfy Floris’ and Disjunto’s geekiness But if you wish to take a look, I’ve uploaded them: iMac Unveiling. The pics were taken in my living room, but it has since been moved up to my room/office. I’ll take a pic of my current setup sometime later when I’m not too lazy to go and find the digital camera.

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