If you’ve been looking at my del.icio.us links lately (either on the left side or on del.icio.us itself) you may have noted a few Apple-orientated links appearing. Now, it is a official — I am an Apple user.

This is my first Apple product I have ever own — I didn’t have an Apple II and I don’t have an iPod or anything else like it. But an opportunity came for me to get a new computer and I choose one that is pretty close to my dream machine — a MacBook Pro. I only messed with it for a few hours last night, but here some very early impressions:

• The screen? Very, very nice. The speed? Even better.
• I installed Aquamacs and it’s not quite what I need, or it’s going to take some configuration to make it so. It tries to be OSX over Emacs — I’d rather have it the other way around.
• Safari is a nice browser, though it doesn’t wrap pre-formatted text well. This is important if you use Cox Webmail. A quick call to Jeremy helped me figure out how to change the screen size. But Gina figured it out before I could tell Jeremy the problem.
• I tried to install OpenOffice and failed. A quick google this morning shows this may not be as easy as I thought. I’ll try to fight through this tonight or this weekend.
• Terminal is good but lots of people say iTerm is better.
• While I was getting the wireless going, my screen kept flipping to Front Row. I couldn’t figure out how that was happening — was I pushing the wrong thing on the Mighty Mouse? I was befuddled and looked around — and then saw the problem. Leah had the remote and was hitting the buttons.
• Even though I only used for a little while, the Mighty Mouse may just be the best mouse ever made.

So, really, it just rocks. You can rest assured that this won’t be my last OSX post, either.