Office does not really bother me that much. I was anyway insisting on Open Office for sometime. I only don’t know what to do with my heap of email files, which is my real office. Don’t suppose there is any way to let them be exported to anything in OSX …

But the Chinese imput system! I have almost forgotten this curse.

The ‘Double Bridge’ I am using is supposed to be for XP as well but it does not really tolerate Outlook Express. Not only is it full of temperament and striking at will, time and again I would lose my unfinished emails if I should forget to first close the software before reading new emails.

Plus, the software may have many smart pinyin shortcuts such as ‘jdmd’ for ‘Kathmandu’ or ‘qwwq’ for ‘yummy yummy’, but it also features some stupid character priority settings. The character ‘ten’, e.g., takes the 12th place, after ‘arrow’, ‘to be’, ‘to die’, ‘time’, ‘to use’, ‘firm’, ‘style’, ‘fact’, ‘wet’, in the first batch & after ‘poetry’ in the second.

Your prompting really helps. Just wondering what is available over here. HK is a PC world. ;-(

I’m a big fan of huge desk surface. In fact, I bought a new table after the photos were taken. It’s a huge glass table from Ikea. I’m in the process of revamping my office. I may blog about it in a month. P.S. my office is normally really messy. I cleaned it just for the photo opp. :)

As far as cmd + Q goes, I usually just right-click on the dock simply because I usually have my tablet’s pen in hand anyway (other than when I’m coding).

The 24″ is awesome! That’s the one I have; how many gigs of ram did you get for it? I think the 24″ comes with a min of 2 gigs, but if not it’d probably be best to upgrade to at least 2 gigs. I run on 4 simply because I used to design and play games at the same time (yes, Macs can run games), which ate up tons of memory, but you should be able to function just fine on just 2 gigs.

On another note, I am jealous of your office and how clean it is. Mine is filled with books, CDs, and plants, and at one point toy panda bears. You make me desire a much larger desk than my small laptop table!

And all the work that’s done within browser (web site maintenance, blogging etc) are the same.

Speaking of Chinese input, OSX is very impressive. On my PC, I had to download third party input software(NJStar etc). OSX has built in support for many languages. It has multiple input methods for both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. I use PinYin. It only takes a keyboard shortcut to toggle between languages.

But then I was only emailing and doing nothing more than writing a few poems and compiling teaching material.

Today, apart from doing doc, I am running a (one-woman) ‘business’ with (primitive but functioning) excel tables I have learnt to create, ppts for presentation, Paint plus gimp in lieu of Photoshop for artwork, a web log with quite a bit of content, soft tools for downloading, imputing Chinese, creating labels, bar codes and other such, and xillions of business emails saved in folders of Outlook Express …

My PC and my laptops may have frozen thousands of times and Outlook Express may have eaten up a few hundred emails while compacting, but I still dread moving the whole e-office to Apple!!! I do not have a day off and I am the only IT person around. [sigh]

When you install Windows VIA bootcamp it runs just as fast as it would be if windows were installed on a non-mac with similar hardware. One thing to watch out for though, is that most Mac’s that aren’t Mac Pro’s come with pretty low-end graphics cards since gaming isn’t the main focus.

I have happily installed many games via bootcamp and they run just great. It is a native install of windows.

Trying to run a game inside of VMWare, from inside of OSX, is a bit of a different story.