iHave iMac and iConfusion

...It's true, we have crossed over to the dark side. Ben and I have been contemplating buying a new computer for about 6 months now, and it was just a matter of what and when. Our old dinosaur of a laptop caused Ben to never get near the computer for any reason- its virus-ridden issues were too much for him to deal with. (SO excited to have a new computer). We have done our homework over the past few months (and relied heavily on friends' advice) and we ultimately decided on a Mac. I took up a good hour of this nice waif of a man's time at the Apple store-- and a week later came back to him to finally take the plunge and buy ourselves a Mac. I haven't used an Apple computer since the olden days where "Apples for Students" allowed me to play a lot of Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?, and all my files were on floppy disk. Buying a new computer is an investment, and it's a difficult one when you know little to nothing about them. All I know is, we hated our old computer and we hope to love this new one. 

We opened the box last night, and let me tell you, this is one beautiful piece of machinery. The first time we booted it up it gave us this amazing welcome presentation with bright flashy colors. Oh, I wish it would do that every time... 

Then, I got to clicking on some words and icons and found myself in a world of confusion. It is relatively user friendly, and it is so nicely organized (which I love) but it is just different. I found myself longing for the control panel and windows wireless internet preferences and some differentiation between backspace and delete. I just couldn't figure a few things out. 

As I have been playing with it and reading some tutorials, I am figuring it out, and I think I am really going to like this thing.