It came from beyond...

[Shari]

It came from beyond and it was two days early.  The new Macintel 
arrived!  She's a BIG honkin' thing.  One look at the box and my 
first thought was, surely the computer isn't that big?  Surely the 
box is just well padded?  But nope, she towers over my G3 by about 4 
inches.  Taller, wider, longer, heavier.

Yup, and she's a lunar landing alright :-)  I spent the evening 
setting preferences, most of which I'd never heard of so I turned 
them off for the moment.  Bear was standing behind me scrunching, 
he'd have been all up in there wanting to know what the inexplicable 
prefs were.  I just want to get functional first :-)

Took five minutes to break my mouse functionality.  I wanted to keep 
my old mouse and was setting mouse prefs when suddenly it quit taking 
mouse commands... I don't think it likes my old mouse.  The new mouse 
is buttonless, or rather, the whole mouse is a button with touchy 
feely spots telling it Right or Left.  It has two thingies on the 
sides for... something.  I turned the thingies off :-)  Just for 
now...

You guys probably know all the new prefs.  Comes with Tiger.  I think 
I have Leopard on the other.  So it's two big cats ahead of me.

Topping the list... a NETWORK CABLE so I can move all my stuff over. 
She does fly thru the internet.  I can't wait to see her with 
Photoshop and Bryce.

Downloaded one of my games and immediately saw a bug :-(  I've known 
that it runs on Tiger and people are buying it who have Tiger.  I 
know that folks with Macintels are running it, too.  Don't know if 
the bug is Tiger related or Macintel related and nobody has emailed 
the bug to me.  Kinda figuring it may be in the Rosetta translation. 
Not going to worry about it right now as the goal is to put out a 
native Macintel version, which presumably will address it.  Been 
thankful that my old Metacard has managed to keep running on many new 
systems.

Heather's vacation feels like a million years long :-)  Yes, I know 
there's other people but... Heather is nice.  Everybody says nice 
things about her.  She has a happy reputation :-)

Shari




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