I love the feel of my MacBook keyboard. It’s quiet and feels so good to my fingers. I searched for years for keyboards like this for my PC. It’s just one of those details that Apple pays attention to that regular PC makers don’t. They just slap on any OEM market keyboard that’s cheapest because they know I’m going to replace it anyway. I wouldn’t HAVE to replace it if they hadn’t chosen the cheapest instead of the best. I’m still angry at PC manufacturers, apparently.

When we went off Daylight Savings last Sunday, my computer automatically adjusted itself. It didn’t ask me if it was alright and it didn’t pop up a window announcing what it had done. It just moved the time back one hour. As a former PC owner, I feel conflicted. I don’t like my computer to do things like change the time because I have never once trusted a computer to do anything right.

iPhoto is a really snazzy program that will just easily download your photos from your camera to your computer. You can do all sorts of great organizational things with the photos and name them. It’s still not as good as Flickr, but it’s getting there. The only problem is, I don’t trust it. Just like I don’t trust the time, I want to download my photos into a special folder and name the folder with the “event” name and date. I don’t want the computer to do it for me automatically because if I had trusted the PC to do that for me, I would have no pictures to show for the last few years. I developed habits to organize my photos for myself and now that I have software that can do it for me, I’m uncomfortable with it.

Well, that and the fact that iPhoto becomes unstable when you use it for the number of photos I have on the hard drive. And the fact that it stores TWO copies of every photo for me just in case I screw up. I’ve worked hard on habits to make sure that I don’t just save over my photos accidentally. I don’t NEED my software to make a backup copy. I do it myself and I trust my systems more than software.

I had to learn new keystrokes for cut, copy and paste because Apple exchanged the Control button for the Apple button. I don’t know who came first on those keystrokes, but it was the only irritating thing I had to learn in order to get used to the Mac. Now, when I switch back to the PC, I push the wrong keys.

The switch to Mac was far easier than I expected and easier than Mike expected. He thought he was going to have to talk me down over and over again, but I just learned the new keystrokes, refused to trust the software and moved on. Maybe someday, I will learn how to love iPhoto and trust it with my camera snaps, but until then, I’m a sort of PC/Mac hybrid. Enjoy the Mac, but trust it like a PC.