{"id":1220,"date":"2005-10-29T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/10\/29\/first-couple-of-days-with-a-new-com"},"modified":"2005-10-29T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T14:52:24","slug":"first-couple-of-days-with-a-new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/10\/29\/first-couple-of-days-with-a-new-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"First couple of days with a new computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1113'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve had the new Powerbook for a couple of days now.&nbsp; Some quick impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The size is actually pretty nice.&nbsp; It can feel a bit small<br \/>\nat times, but for about the same price as the difference between the<br \/>\ntwo models I was considering, I can get a 17&#8243; or 19&#8243; monitor and<br \/>\nexternal keyboard (already having an external wired mouse).&nbsp; But<br \/>\nonce I get&nbsp; a little carrying case, the portability seems quite<br \/>\nnice.&nbsp; That said, if Apple released a 14&#8243; PB when the intels come<br \/>\nout (same size as the big iBook), I&#8217;d be interested&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>OS X is better than I thought.&nbsp; I love Spotlight.&nbsp; This<br \/>\nis the feature that&#8217;s like Google Desktop on WinXP.&nbsp; Type in a<br \/>\nword or phrase, and it pulls up every file where that occurs, not just<br \/>\nin the title but also in the actual contents&#8230;.&nbsp; For example,<br \/>\n&#8220;jelly&#8221; brings up 9 files.&nbsp; Weird and totally cool.<\/li>\n<li>The transfer to OS X was prety easy.&nbsp; All my documents came<br \/>\nright over, since much of my work is on MS Office.&nbsp; My Eudora data<br \/>\nwas a bit harder, but I found a set of programs at <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/aamann\/\">Andreas Amann&#8217;s site<\/a> to deal with the transition from Eudora (even Windows Eudora) to Apple Mail.&nbsp; Specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/aamann\/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html\">Eudora Mailbox Cleaner<\/a><br \/>\nnot only converts Eudora mailboxes, but it also converts the nickname<br \/>\ndatabase into a format that Address Book in OS X can easily deal with.<br \/>\n(BTW, is Apple Mail in an interchageable format?&nbsp; 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