QUESTION
Hey Mark, glad you got skype working. Well, let’s see, you’ve had the mac for about a week now, what do you think so far?

ANSWER 

Hello Mike, 

Thank you for asking. 

Well, I am absolutely loving it.  I feel as though entire new “Vistas” (get
it?)  have been opened up to me. 

The interaction between VoiceOver/Snow Leopard and Jaws/Windows is so different. 

While I have never driven a car, based on what I have heard from people over the years, VO is more like a stick-shift while Jaws is more like an automatic transmission.  People who prefer stick-shift do so because they have more control of the automobile.  I am definitely a sick-shift kind of guy.  (Smile) 

As I told a friend the other day, I have received a lot of flack from Windows people who feel I have abandoned the cause.  Nothing could be further from the truth; to me, I have merely expanded my proverbial horizons. 

While I am still taking baby steps, I am confident that Apple and Candle Shore will swim in the same ocean from now on.  (Smile) 

By the way, I purchased a La Ci rugged portable 500GB Fire Wire drive for making backups and such.  This is quite an impressive device, to say the least, and I recommend it to anyone in the market for such a device.. 

Also, as I was out and about for extended periods of time this Labor Day weekend, I took my MacBook Pro along and I am happy to report that my Verizon Wireless USB Air Card functioned perfectly.  The quality of this notebook is beyond belief.  And, I still smile every time I use the Multi-Touch Track Pad to engage the computer with iPhone VoiceOver command gestures. 

Oh yeah, when I was in the Apple Store last week, I was told that one can use either the iPhone 3GS or the iPod Touch as a Multi-Touch Track Pad interface with Macs that do not have a built-in multi-touch track pad by installing software from the iTunes store.

Click Here to learn more about this amazing software.

One more thing, even though I am happy with Windows 7 running as a Virtual Machine, courtesy of VM Ware, I am toying with the idea of installing windows 7 via Boot Camp, again.  I think I have a solution for the audio problem.  By the way, the audio problem I experienced seems to be specific to the MacBook Pro.  Of course, as windows 7 has not been officially released yet, many of us are jumping the gun on this one. 

Again, thank you for asking. 

Most Sincerely,

Mark