no wakeup this morning

opened the lid on macbook, the password dialog came up, but the password field wasn't automatically highlighted and the window wasn't selected, so i had to mouse over and click on the password field before typing the password. its the little things that bug me.

strangely, after typing the password and hitting enter, the screen flashed briefly, showing the application i had been using last (iphoto, why is everthing called i-this or i-that? i'm surprised mail isn't called imail and safari isn't called i-surf or i-browse...) then it went blank.

just blank - it was on, the brightness controls were working, the volumne controls were also working, but nothing was displayed. i tried a zillion keys on the keyboard and played with the mouse for a bit but it just made unhappy bonging sounds at me. i even tried the power key (though i didn't hold it down.)

i thought macs weren't supposed to freeze!

in reality, it didn't freeze, as a last resort i closed the clamshell and waited then i reopened it and everything was fine after that, it was just an oddball fluke. for a brand new computer thought it seems to have a lot of these oddball flukes.

another thing i've noticed is sometimes it takes just positively forever to shut the computer down. i usually quit everything on my own before i do a shut down, to be sure for myself that i've saved everything. but it has taken minutes to shut this thing down even after everything was quit. it gets out of the finder quickly, but i'm left staring at a blank sea-green background of nothingness for a long time (minutes!) before the ubiquitous spinny "please wait" icon appears in the middle bottom. then that takes a few minutes to finish shutting down. and when i say a few minutes i'm talking 10-15 minutes total. on a brand new macbook with nothing running. this actually hasn't happened in a little while (and i don't often have any reason to shut the thing down anyway, the sleep is so effective i almost always just close the lid and walk away) but what is up with that?

still haven't found an answer to sending photos from iphoto using thunderbird. you also can't copy and paste photos into thunderbird, also very annoying. my buddy from work looked it up and found on an apple support forum that you actually can't fix this. i still plan to take it in to the genius bar and ask them.

chances are greater than 50/50 that i'l be returning this thing before january 8. its just not as good as i had hoped.