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Last week I took delivery of my new Apple Macintosh<\/a>. I’m still having some teething problems (more on that when I get a resolution to my networking issues) but right now the Mac is at home and I’m in a hotel in London, surfing and blogging from my Windows Vista notebook. Anyway, I just came across the Mac 101<\/a> and Switch 101<\/a> sections of the Apple website which are really cool resources for those who are getting used to a Mac for the first time (either as new computer users or switching from Windows respectively). Useful stuff.<\/p>\n

I particularly like the Switch 101 tag line – “Lose Ctrl. Gain Command.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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