I’ve had my iBook for about 48 hours now, and I’m beginning to find my way. OS X (or is it OSX?) is a completely new experience to me, but I think I’m taking to it rather well. I’m still getting used to the difference between shutting an application and quitting an application, but that’ll come in time! For what it’s worth, I wanted to jot down my initial experiences and reactions with the switch. I won’t go into too much detail just yet – I’ll save that for later articles.

• File browsing is more intuitive, especially after I switched to column view in Finder.
• A lot more emphasis is placed on using keyboard commands than in Windows…
• …Which is just as well, as the trackpad is a bit pants.
• Software installation is a breeze. It’s so simple and logical. Drop the application into the applications folder and away you go!
• I’m still not sold on the Dock, but I haven’t done any tweaking yet (other than the size of it)
• Everything just looks better. From the icons to the text to the GUI widgets… it’s just better!

So far, I haven’t done anything to set up the machine for local development/testing. I plan to do this later this week, after I’ve done a bit more reading – I want to set up SVN and Ruby/Rails, both of which I’ve never set up before (or even used before, in the case of Ruby/Rails!). Another thing that I haven’t done yet, is transferred any old files onto the iBook. That’s tonight’s job.