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Ever since Mac OS X launched, I’ve been thinking of owning a machine running it. I used to think that a combination of a decent GUI environment with UNIX back-end/kernel would be the perfect OS. And now, finally, Apple hardware seem more affordable nowadays — then I convinced myself to buy this little thing:

It’s a 12” 1.2Ghz Apple iBook G4, unfortunately what I bought is a 2nd hand iBook, it didn’t come with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). From the web I could find it’s bought on April 21st and entitled to a Tiger up-to-date program, but too bad I couldn’t get seller’s original receipt on time, it was expired yesterday :(.

I didn’t really intend to switch. Having heard lots of good things about the Mac OS X, the state-of-art technology and good user interface, I want to learn about it. But I forsee for the difficulty to be used to it, after all I’ve been using PCs for more than 10 years. There’re lots of die-hard habits. What’s usability? It’s the less surprise for the users when he/she perform some action on the interface, we users should feel and get the response from the OS or application as what we expected.

That sounds true, so switching platform is not a easy and pleasant topic, I’d come to that later.