Well, it arrived. I'm still in the honeymoon period at the moment so I will write a Part 2 when I have used it regularly day to day, but I have to say that first impressons are amazing!
The interface remnds me a lot of Ubuntu or more specifically the Gnome desktop environment. However it is incredibly polished. If Vista Looks better than XP, this makes Vista look and behave like like a poor imitator the dashboard and single clcik make navigating the desktop effortless.
However this is secondry to the initial set up. as with the physical hardware, the set up has been so well thought through it is phenomenal, for current windows users it works so much better, looks so much better and doesn't expect you to know anything about your setup to work. I let my wife do this bit (and she knows quite a bit about windows after being married to me) and she was amazed at how effortless it was, in fact the ease of setting up our wireless literally illicited a revered "wow". Now my wife is not easy to please (is any woman!) so this is quite something.
I took over at this point and started navigating around the system. Everything is incredibly easy to find and use, every application seems designed to "just work" no fiddling or extra updates (.NET anyone) required to run it is ingenious.
I'm reserving my final verdict until I have used it day to day for work. But for a home user, especially if your not technologically savvy, this is the one to get, forget PC's this has everything you want and it's easier than Windows. I'm convinced at the moment that If the world used Mac's, 90% of IT Support issues people have day to day would dissapear, my user training would also be easier, due in part to the more logical and predictable outcome of choosing options. I miss right clicking, but I also recognise that without it, it makes things a bit easier too....once you get used to it.
"Once you go MAC you never go back" might be true after all.
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