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So, it appears I have jumped onto the dark side and gone with a Mac. That last Dell XPS was great, but after two replaced motherboards, countless reformats and no guarantee of it staying alive I could not bear the data risk. Who knows if Macbooks will be any better? In any case, I figure I’d see what the fuss is all about.

The unboxing of a new Apple product as they all used to say, is an experience in itself. The meticulous attention to detail is truly commendable. Each item individually wrapped and packaged nicely to ensure maximum satisfaction. And when you first turn it on, it actually take the time to greet you nicely. Video tutorials, etc… touche!

One of the first programs I start to learn to use is iPhoto 09. The face recognition feature is incredible! Very impressive and I can certainly see the uses of this. What *really* gets to me however, is that after a couple of days of exploring and getting to know the system, I find that iPhoto is a disk hog. Like, what the heck were the software designers thinking? Well, there are a couple of remedies. Firstly, you’d best uncheck the copy photos to the library feature – that automatically doubles your disk space requirements. However, for every photo that you manipulate it automatically creates a duplicate to ensure non-destructive editing. Fair enough. But why then does it automatically import pictures *still*, into its library? The photos it keeps seem to be random too, some it would make a copy of during import, some not (even though you tell it not to import). What a ridiculous thing to do!

In any case, iPhoto 09 for newbies on the surface is pretty good, as long as you don’t care about how it does it. Does anyone know of a better photo management software for Macs though? More experimentation to come with other programs no doubt… once I get over the keyboard shortcuts.

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