*UPDATE: Since I wrote this iOS 5 has come out and my Mac is coming early I should have it by the end of tomorrow.
This week seems like it will never end. I know a lot of you probably are thinking the same thing you as well as me want the week to end. Some people want it to end so they can get their new iPhone 4s some may want it to end so they can play around with the iOS 5 update that comes out later today. I want it to end so I can finally get my Mac. After about 13 years I will finally be getting a Mac. It is something I have waited for, for about 13 years to get a Mac. I want the waiting to end but I still got 2 more days left.
I got the $599 Mac Mini. I went with the mini because it was the cheapest Mac and it makes the most senses to my desk because there is no room where to put an iMac and I don’t have the money for an air. The Mac Mini is still an upgrade over my HP computer that I use as my main computer as well.
Truly the reason why I want the Mac has nothing to do with the hardware, it is the software. I’ve loved the look and feel of OS X forever and at times done so much to try and mimic the feel of OS X on Windows by skinning it and moving things around but I never can get that feel. Well I no long have to do that because I will have OS X lion.
The other thing I’m looking forward to is iPhoto and iMovie. I always loved iPhoto and what it does and how easy it makes it to organize your photos on a Mac. I hoped that maybe one day Windows would have something like iPhoto and we did get something like it Windows Live Photo gallery its nice it makes it easier to organize and find photos and get them on Facebook and other photo sharing sites, but it’s just not iPhoto. It just does not have the feel I get from iPhoto I know there are probably way better apps to keep your photo organized and make quick slide shows but I do love iPhoto most.
iMovie is the other thing I’m looking forward to trying out. Yet again I know there are way better video editing tools then iMovie but I don’t do a lot of video editing so iMovie will probably be good for me. On Windows we have Windows Movie Maker and in recent years they have made it way better than what shipped with Windows XP but it gets the job done and that’s well and good but I iMovie gets the job done and also destroyed what movie maker can do. I think this video shows off what iMovie can do.
There is so much more but those are really the top 2 things I want my Mac for. It comes sometime Friday and you can but I will be posting about it and lots and lots of photos and screen shots and all around geeking out about my Mac Mini.