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2006 08 18

Hello World! My MacBook has arrived!

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I’m delighted to finally have my Apple MacBook after 3 weeks. I won’t waste time reviewing it as you all know that it is just plain fantastic. Just a quick summary:

  • It’s beautiful
  • Mac OS X is beautiful
  • It becomes warm (and sometimes very warm after some hours of intensive use)
  • It works beautifully with my Livebox

As expected, here are the Photo Booth manipulated photos captured with the built-in iSight camera of the MacBook.

Here, Christina and I are (re)discovering the pleasure of having our photo being taken by “someone” else…

Here, Kyan and Anya are in awe of CoreImage technology:

And this is the ultimate proof that Steve Jobs has won ; Christina is reading the MacBook’s manual:

Fantastic, I tell you!

(PS: This is the first post I’m submitting from my MacBook and I’m using Safari…)

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written by avinash

8 Responses to “Hello World! My MacBook has arrived!”

  1. LaSh says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 20:35

    *woot*

    congrats on finally getting u’r new toy :) it really looks beautiful, the all white-effect is very appealing :D.

    the picture quality from the built-in cam looks very neat btw, is it the hd-VGA quality or even better?

    cheers, happy MacBook’in

  2. avinash says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 21:31

    Thanks LaSh,

    The picture quality of the built-in iSight is indeed very good even though the resolution is limited to 640 x 480 (i.e. VGA).

    BTW, the keyboard is rather distinctive but I like it.

    The only big problem that I have is the low volume of the built-in speakers compared to my sister’s Dell for example. I won’t be able to host a party with that… ;-(

  3. Eddy Young says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 15:03

    Try this: View a Quicktime movie in the player (from http://www.apple.com/trailers) and minimise it to the dock. See the beauty of CoreImage as the video plays in there.

  4. avinash says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 16:04

    I’ll do that as soon as I get home cause I’ve already packed my laptop in its brand new bag (and it’s already 16:04…) ;-)

  5. tarriq says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 22:33

    congrats :)

    whats next on your wishlist??

  6. avinash says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 23:30

    Thanks tarriq,

    Now I need to buy an external hard disk so that I can do video editing properly. And I am also buying a USB midi interface to connect my Kawai K4 synthesizer to the MacBook.

  7. J000000 says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 21:40

    Keep it Mr Avinash. Explore everything you want

  8. avinash says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 08:26

    I’ll do that! Count on me ;-)

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