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Having passed my Apple Certified Macintosh Technician<\/a> exams, I realized that the training I received courtesy of my company was only going to go to waste if I didn’t keep up with the technology on a daily basis. While I do have a G4 Mac mini<\/a> at home, I simply wasn’t using it often enough to be able to answer those day to day use questions that the few Mac clients I have will ask.<\/p>\n So I took the plunge, but with a small bit of cost reduction, by going with a certified refurbished<\/a> unit from the Apple Store. I ended up saving over $300 on a refurbished 2.2GHz Macbook<\/a>, which allowed me to upgrade the system memory to 4GB with the possibility of nearly tripling the hard drive size.<\/p>\n It’s a beautiful unit, with it’s glossy white case and glowing Apple logo on the lid. I did opt for some protection, though, in the form of a $50 Incase Hardshell<\/a>. The rubberized plastic looks great and feels very substantial, all while not adding any real weight to the unit. Although I went with the black case, because it’s somewhat translucent, it actually ends up looking like a very dark, eggplant purple, which I’ve come to like very much. <\/p>\n For a mouse, I went with the Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000<\/a>, mainly because it’s one of the cheaper mice that are fully compatible with the Macbook’s built-in bluetooth capabilities. Also, the black and white color scheme matches well, not to mention that there’s something amusing in using a Microsoft mouse with an Apple notebook.<\/p>\n I’m still getting used to using the OS X operating system on a daily basis, rather than the experimental and intermittent use my Mac mini receives. Mostly, I’m trying to learn how the average person would use the system so that I can answer those average user questions about every day use. Overall, however, the experience is going great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having passed my Apple Certified Macintosh Technician exams, I realized that the training I received courtesy of my company was only going to go to waste if I didn’t keep up with the technology on a daily basis. While I do have a G4 Mac mini at home, I simply wasn’t using it often enough … Continue reading “My New Macbook”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}