It's been two weeks since I got my new MacBook and so far, the experience has been wonderful. I was able to create the unboxing video in the post below within about an hour of firing up the new MacBook using the iMovie software I'd never touched before. All of my digital camera photos pulled into iPhoto with no problem, and when I hook the camcorder up, it imports my JVC video files (that end in .mod in Windows and always had to be renamed to .mpg to view in Windows Media Player) without a hitch. The Mac converts them into .mp4 clips that I can easily play with in iMovie...AND I have been able to take movies created in iMovie and burn them to DVDs for backups using iDVD (I think that's what it was called).

I will note that burning a 2 hour .mp4 file to a DVD takes many, many hours but the outcome is beautiful. I am wondering if I upgrade the Macbook to 4gb of ram (or 6 as recent posts suggest are possible LINK) if it will speed things up? I have also noted that I am already down to 60gb of free disk space....so I am thinking I will eventually have to upgrade to a bigger hard drive. Luckily it appears the new MacBook's hard drive is located in a place that is super easy to upgrade. I'll let you know how that goes.

OK, on to other news, provided I can find really good...FREE... mac screen recording software, I'd like to start doing some very simple "I'm new to Macs...how the heck do I do......" videos....perhaps a HelpMeSwitch.com video podcast. I miss the hell out of podcasting but the old way I used to do things is too time consuming to continue those efforts..but if I was able to simply record audio and screen video a few minutes here, a few minutes there, I think I could pull it off.

That's it for now, will update again sooner than later.