Last week I finally caved and bought myself my first ever Apple Mac. I was originally going to buy myself a decent PC laptop to get myself a little more mobile around the house, but I ended up going for a MacBook Pro on a hunch.
My initial impressions are all good. The packaging was first class, the initial experience was excellent and so far the performance has been top notch. I’m mainly using the MacBook for mail, internet and World of Warcraft (which actually helps the MacBook double as a heater — good for winter, not so much for summer!).
My initial fears of running two different Operating Systems have been unfounded as the brain seems to adapt to each environment really quickly (but I’m happy to admit I’m still a complete Mac newbie). Its susrprising how adaptable the human brain can be.
Interestingly, within hours of getting my Mac, I was getting the Mac jibes… “silly mac users”, “noob” and “mac user haha”.
But I’m already starting to wonder how long my home PC desktop will last… the MacBook is a real pleasure to use. Highly recommended. 
My birthday’s coming up, kinda. Pretty please?
I had a similar experience about 6 months ago when i purchased my first ever MacBook Pro
After 6 months im still learning things about the machine and im sure theres more to it again.
Still its good to see you giving it a real go.
Ooooh, congrats! Welcome to the cult
So far the three most annoying thing about the Mac are:
1. The Command keys become Alt keys when you revert to a PC (alt-c & alt v = EPIC FAIL).
2. The minimise, maximise and close buttons for windows are on the top left.
3. The top bar of the display is the main menu for programs = weird and this requires a lot of extra mouse work (and thinking).
Small list I guess!
Easily fixed!
1) Stop using PC’s
2) Key combos!
CMD + W to close the window/tab
CMD + H to “hide” the window (you can alt tab back to it later)
CMD + Q to quit the entire application
CMD + M to minimize
More here. Especially handy on a laptop to avoid using the trackpad
3) A little strange, I agree, but an unavoidable consequence of a document-based window manager instead of a window-based manager.
1) You can only resize from the bottom right corner of the window!
2) “Screenshot” is Cmd + Shift + 4 (wtf?!)
3) They removed the delete key, and renamed backspace to delete.
4) There is no “cut” only “copy”.
5) Hitting “delete” doesn’t delete a file, you have to right click it and “move to trash”.
I could go on all day… yet here I am, typing this comment from my Mac Book Pro
In response to James
Screen Shot is actually four different types depending on wether you want a selection, the whole screen and wether you want it as a jpg on your desktop or in the clipboard – much better than print screen! Play around with cmd + shift + ctrl + 3 & 4
Also hitting delete doesn’t delete a file, but hitting command + delete does! Handy hints!