My Apple iBook has arrived today. Let a new era in personal computing begin. There are a lot of nice things about this iBook. I think the most obvious one is that it is all white. Finally, I’m one of the good guys! Second is that there is a tremendous amount of attention to detail with this machine. From the backlit apple, the visual instructionions, the light on the power cord, the box it came in, it all comes down to the little things that make you really appreciate it all. Third is that I love it’s small size and efficiency. This is a Japanese person’s computer. All efficiency. Fourth is that the graphics are just amazing There is so much eye-candy here my eyes are loving it. I really like how Macs enforce a strong sense of UI style, it makes using the programs easier. A few programs break the UI, but not as many as Windows, where it seems everyone is reinventing the wheel.

Apple’s slogan for OSX is that “It Just Works” and to a large degree that is true. It did most of the work for me in finding my wireless network after I installed the card. I didn’t have to load any drivers and my only configuration really was to choose the wireless network I wanted to be a part of (I don’t use the default name of the network). Getting the printer on the print server was pretty easy. It was a little more work, because D-Link doesn’t support MacOS natively. However, I just found the IP address and queue name my router uses and it worked. Cool.

I’ve installed Microsoft Office and the developer tools. Those should be fun to play with in the next few days. Yahoo Messenger works pretty much the same. Unfortunately, this version of IE is semi-crippled. Movable Type doesn’t seem to want to do its Javascript button things. I’ll have to make the urls by hand so click on them for my sake.

There’s been a lot of crazy things going on in the world lately. I’ll prepare my rant this weekend.