My new MacBook Pro and iPod touch!

It's here! finally!

Well, to be honest it actually arrived on the 9th, but I've been a little busy getting used to it so I didn't post anything before.

Attached you can all se some of the pictures of the unboxing. At first I thought of making a video, but I guess I was so nervous I completely forgot, and by the time I had it open it was too late. I guess you can all live without it.

Ok, so for those that don't know, I ordered a 13" MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz) with an iPod Touch a few days ago from the apple store. The story is here. Anyways it finally arrived and opened it and before even turning it on, I turned it over and opened the lid to change the HDD to a 500 Gb SATA disk instead of the 320 HDD that came with it, which means that after the mechanics were done, I had to format it and install OSX from scratch (which was, in my opinion, dead easy) and iLife from the other DVD that came with the laptop.

After a few days playing with it I finally managed to get used to the keyboard and interface, here are the things I like and I don't-like-so-much:

• Things I love:

• The UI: Simple, useful and smooth, everything fits and everything works like its supposed to.
• Trackpad: synaptics has a looong way to go if they wan't to catch up
• Virtual Machines and bootcamp: great way to have Windows 7 and Linux all in one. Works perfectly.

Things I like:

• The keyboard: different but quite confortable to use, specially the F keys
• The DVD reader/writter: instead of clicking a button on the side for a plastic thing to pop out, you simply insert it in a hole and everything is done inside.
• Adium: the closest thing in Windows/Linux is pidgin, and it's still far from adium
• Many, many more

Things I don't like:

•  Small little things, like iTunes not syncing properly my calendars to the iPod and so on.

Things I hate:

• USB: TWO USBs? and they're SO close together almost no pendrive or thick USB fits with anything else
• Audio Jack: Just one? I know Apple has this system where mic and speakers are together, but this is such a pain... I definitely do NOT like that at all
• Were-is-my-Delete-key? and no, command-backspace doesn't work for me.

Anyways, hate aside, it's totally worth it, both the MacBook and the iPod Touch.

See the full gallery on posterous

Patatas de lux

Cuanto mal ha hecho McDonald's

My first call to the Apple Store

As some of you might know, I am planning on buying a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.66 GHz processor, so today I decided to call about the student discount and how many days would it take to get here.

I called the apple today around 18:15 prepared to be stuck there talking to some useless person, like in Vodafone (yeah, I hate them). Anyways, I called and had to answer some typical "press 1 if you are a student, press 4 if you like codfish..." you know, typical stuff. After 3 or 4 questions and a minute of music, I heard a voice of a guys saying with quite a cheerful voice "Welcome to the Apple store line! my name is *****! what can I help you with?" I told him my problem and, all the time being cheerful and nice, answered my questions straight to the point. In the end he told me that he was going to send me an email with all the information we discussed in case I wanted it for reference.

Wow. I mean: WOW. Really, why can't other companies copy this? I am sure it's not hard being nice on the phone! Vodafone (¬¬) lines are always answered by useless people that have NO IDEA what they're talking about and always answer inappropriately. People, learn from Apple.

Another Summer day

Here I am, another summer day, exactly like yesterday, exactly like the day before (and so on).

I haven't updated in quite a while now, but that's mainly because there is not much to update. I'm now in Ronda, Malaga, Spain for a few days (and I'll be here for 10 more), at home. Even though it's really nice coming back home, seeing your parents after so many months and so on, there is a little problem that kind of makes this a less pleasant stay. I don't know anyone here so I stay home most of the time online, watching One Piece, playing Civilization IV or modelling my website.

So that's all I get to do until August 11th, when I go to Cadiz for 5 days and then to Santoña (Summer Camp).

I hope you are all having a great summer!