I don’t think there’s a modern-day equivalent of the joy and breath of fresh air that was the first couple of months of my MBP 3,1. There was the clever use of

I don’t think there’s a modern-day equivalent of the joy and breath of fresh air that was the first couple of months of my MBP 3,1. There was the clever use of magnets throughout the design, the Front Row UI for “Netflix-and-chilling” before Netflix was widespread, and iTunes and iSync that just worked with your own devices (albeit with some intermediary software). I was coming from a decade of Windows and a summer of Ubuntu 7.04 that I would, from time-to-time, spend hours customizing to look like Mac OS. Also coming to terms that I just wanted, and could afford, the real thing was very freeing.