MacBook unboxing from Mike Schramm on Vimeo.

I bought the new MacBook finally, and since I was asked for an unboxing, here you go. Non-techies, feel free to ignore — there’s something fascinating about this experience of opening up newly purchased hardware to those of us who care about it. It could be that usually you have to shell out a lot of money directly before (so you’d like to get as much enjoyment as you can out of it), or it could even be that you are almost guaranteed to find something new and cool. And nothing excites us technologists more than the new and the cool.

Also, as a bonus, here’s “the list”: all the programs I got up and running on this thing last night.
Quicksilver
Skype
Ecamm Call Recorder
Audio Hijack Pro
Firefox
Adium
Pixelmator
Desktoptopia
Evernote
Ventrilo
Xmarks
Growl
Tweetie
iStat Pro
Comic Life Magiq
Writeroom
Snapz Pro X
App Zapper

It’s not an exhaustive list (and sorry, I need to get to real work today, otherwise I’d have linked them all for you), but it’s more or less all of the apps I regularly use for general work. With all this stuff, I’m all set to do all my blogging and computing on the road.