It is very shiny.

The Macbook arrived at work today, and it’s quite the piece of design I must admit.

There was a slight hitch on the “it just works” front when the isight camera failed to function, but a shut-down and restart fixed the problem. Shades of Windows there already!

I had been planning to pick up the Logic 8 Studio box, but I’ve decided to give my Pro Tools licence another bash for now. It does have a good reputation, and having paid the money back in January for the little blue hardware thingie and all the associated 1s and 0s, I’d feel it remiss of me not to try and actually use it a bit. After a skim through the 800+ page manual, it turns out it’s actually got a lot of features I didn’t even know about, so it could work out well.

Also, looks like I’ll be able to get Reaper to run using either fusion or crossover, which will give me access to my favourite bits of the PC audio world as well.

But all that is for the future. Thus far I’ve only had a poke around the various bits & pieces of OSX, and put some loops on the timeline in Garageband and pressed play. Strangely enough it sounded like every other garageband “composition” I’ve ever heard – 120BPM, 4/4 time, one chord. Get Timbaland on the phone!!!

Actually, he’d probably like it.

Then he’d steal it.

So on second thought, don’t.