My wife loves my new MacBook Air

My wife and her family have been buying a lot of laptops in the 6 years that I have known them.

Her 2 year old Dell laptop purchased from the US has given her nothing but heartache this year (I am about to remedy that... I just need to find some time)

I also had a Dell laptop from my office but had to return it as I no longer do field work.  One of the many reasons why I love my new MacBook Air.

My wife loves to watch movies in our new MacBook Air.  I just need to remind her constantly that she can close the laptop to pause the movie that she is watching when our baby boy cries, "Mommy!"

I think is has been a force of habit from Windows users to keep the monitor on and pause the movie so that you are sure that the movie will continue to point when you paused.  From my new experience with the MacBook Air you can close the laptop and due to its fast start up you can immediately watch the movie from the point when you paused.

I also found out that if you keep the monitor running (and did not close the MacBook Air) the area where the body of the laptop and the monitor join becomes quite hot - which I think might damage the MacBook Air or decrease the battery life.  I had a similar problem with my Compaq laptop.  I closed the laptop (without turning it off) and placed it inside my backpack.  Sure enough before the year ended my battery was shot and my monitor was damaged.

Just to end this entry back on my wife loving my MacBook Air.  Can I assume that females prefer MacBooks over other laptops?

Mavericks, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband

This is a follow up to my post on installing OS X Mavericks on my new Macbook Air.

I did not make a bootable OS X Mavericks USB.  My rationale: time consuming and since it was still new I perceived that I did not have to do a clean install (although I was very much tempted).  My internet connections was not also fast enough.  Truth be told: I had to stay up all night to finish the installation (albeit I had to finish a pending report).

Yes.  I had to stay up all night... all Saturday night to complete the installation.  How I miss buying a CD or a DVD (or 3.5 disk or 5.25 disk) and installing it in 2 to 3 hours.  I think I might be doing something wrong.

I stayed up all night not just due to the Mavericks installation.  I was really surprised that I was eligible for the free apps: Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband.  I took on the task of installing them as well :) I got my Macbook Air from Japan in October 2013 and I was eligible for these free apps as explained in the apple website.  The App Store informed me that the apps were free! Great!  I did not think about it anymore and just downloaded it for fear that they might rescind the free offer.

I just have a problem now: I already have Garageband in my Macbook Air.  App store was informing me that a free Garageband was avaialble.  I clicked on it and it started to download.  I have not yet finished downloading the Garageband and it seems that it will not update the Garageband app that was installed in my Macbook Air.

Hmmm... curious-er and curious-er...

I really think that now is the best time to buy a Macbook! If you need help in looking for a store, you need not look far.  My amazon store on the right can help link you with your Macbook Air or Pro.  Hopefully it give you the best price for your Macbook Air or Pro.

Nice article from CNET on the free iWork and iLife:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57609693-37/free-software-will-result-in-$900-million-deferral-at-apple/