We did everything on the first night

I am instantly in love with my new computer, which arrived yesterday. I can't believe how frickin' fast it is and how often it wants to take my photo with the built-in iSight camera. Seriously. It's always asking me if it can take my picture and use it for various things. I mean, get that damn thing out of my face. Okay, so we are kind of off to a rough start. But it so fast, so easy. So fast and so easy on our first night together.

I have an older iMac, about four years old now, and it's cranky and faulty, with a major hard disk error and so no way to upgrade to a new version of OS. I was worried about using Mac's really simple Migration Assistant, which transfers your settings, files, and applications via firewire from your old Mac to your new Mac. Turns out, my old computer is such a hunk of junk that it couldn't read the disk.

In any case, it worked out better in the end. I was afraid that Migration Assistant was too simple and would end up importing the bad karma from the old machine as well as the good files. So, I basically turned the old mac into a target disk and moved over files manually. My iTunes transferred in about twenty minutes. My photos took about three minutes. It was easier than I thought to move over applications as well...even an out of date version of Eudora works fine on the Intel mac, and in most cases I had to move over another batch of files from the ~/library to keep my bookmarks, archived email, etc. intact.

But I can't believe how fast it was. And how eager it was to do whatever I wanted to do with it.

I can't ignore the sexual undertone. How in the Apple commercials for the new Intel Mac, the PC is played by a dumpy dude in a suit and the Mac is played by a slim, sexy man who jumps out of his box and runs off-screen, presumably to jump into the lap of his new 'user.'

Macs are just so damn easy and (tech-)slutty.

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