OOBE/Newbie Do

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Oh how I wish I had thought of that earlier.

OOBE

Out of the Box Experience. I am taking a wider interpretation of the term than you will find in Wikipedia. I want to consider the fugue state that for some is that odd, out of the norm, out of place mindset that ensues from the moment you receive your new machine until it becomes an almost transparent part of your life. For some, that state starts in the early stages of desire, and never completely passes.

NOOBE

(NewBie alt. Newbie). I prefer the Newbie spelling as it is not necessarily an insult as much as an acknowledgement that someone is naive in the context of a new field.

But don't wander away now, having discerned that as a seasoned computer user, I am not talking about you. Your prior knowledge and experience is probably the reason why you will ignore, overlook, or dismiss some of the most interesting aspects of your new machine.

DO

Things to do now upon opening the box. For relatively mundane, routine tasks see: OOBE Things to Do NOW.

Now it is time to think about Investments. These include unlearning the workarounds you learned to cope with other (less capable) technologies, applying these to your favourite applications, and rethinking the way you work.

See: Investments

WN 16:06, 20 August 2006 (GMT-8)