As noted, with the new year, I’m starting to use my new MacBook Pro full-time. Last night, it took a few hours to copy everything from my old backup to this new laptop. Did it work perfectly, of course not. Plus, I don’t like copying everything from my old laptop to my new one. There is a lot of stuff that I could throw away, but it takes time to go through it all. So I copied just my old home directory, but not the Applications directory. I know there’s lots of stuff that won’t run or that should be updated, so I installed all that stuff manually.

Anyway, here’s the info about my new laptop.

So it’s not a current laptop. I bought it off the clearance section because I wanted a laptop that still had usb connections. The idea of carrying a bunch of dongles to plug stuff into a usb-c connection fills me with dread. I’ll still have to do that for my network connection, but I do have usb and can still use my old chargers with an adapter. That’s good because I didn’t want to have to buy an extra one so that I could have one at home and work. I also bought a new 1tb hard drive and installed that myself. I couldn’t customize the laptop because I bought it in the clearance section, so it came with a 128mb drive, which is laughable. It also comes only with 8gb of ram and I can’t upgrade that. That’s sad because my old laptop had 16gb of ram and I wanted one with even more, but Apple has decided that we don’t need that much ram.

In my mind, I’m hoping this laptop takes me through retirement. And if that’s the case, this will perhaps be my last mac. I’m not liking the direction that their hardware is taking and if I don’t have to support macs at work, I really won’t need one. I’d be fine with a linux laptop.

Took me a while, but my point of this post is to note that I’m moving from a 15-inch laptop to a 13-inch laptop. Yes, this new laptop is much lighter than my old one. But the screen feels really small as well. One place where I really notice it is in my calendar. The cells are all much smaller so that I can’t see all my events. This may change how I use it. Now, I put lots of notes and reminders in my calendar. But if I can only view two or three events, I may stop putting items there. I’m already noticing that I don’t really pay attention to the line that says 2 more… or 3 more…, meaning if I don’t see them in the monthly view, it’s like they’re not there.

Another spot where I’ve noticed the smaller screen is in watching nhl games. It’s changed the arrangement of how things are laid out. I’ll probably get used to it, but my immediate reaction of course is that I don’t like it. Oh well, change is inevitable.