I have a Mac

Yes my Mac arrived yesterday and I spent the next few hours setting up my new desktop and getting to know my new Mac. Now I will be putting up a full review of the Mac Mini soon however I just wanted to give a few first impressions.

• It is hard to find good free software people seem to like paying for Mac software. On a PC you can find most things for free for example I have been trying to find something like Windows Live Writer one of the best blogging tools around. The Mac has Ecto however you must pay to get this. Live writer is free so looks like I am still going to need to have a copy of Windows running via parallels. If you know of any good blogging tools for Mac that are free please let me know.

• Speed – The Mac is fast very fast applications like Azureus load up and run without taking all my computing power. This could be to do with the fact that the mini is not 4 years old like my old PC but I like to think it is the unix nature of the Mac. Moving files from a removable USB to the Mac hard dive is Much Much faster then on Vista. Vista was bad at this simple task but in Leopard is seems to be at least 4 times faster then on Vista.

• Look and Feel – applications on the Mac just generally look good. The MSN client that I am using looks nice much better then crappy MSN live or whatever they call it.

• Quiet – As the Mac mini is almost a laptop it is very quiet and this is a big benefit over my old PC that I had to turn off if I had guests stay over as it was very loud.

• Size – the mini is very small so small I would say it is smaller than the power supply for my old PC.

So this is all I have for now. Please feel free to comment on some Apps that you think I need on my Mac and please let me know if you can think of any good blogging tools that are like live writer and are free for the Mac.