Forgive me, I have bought a MacBook Pro
and I really, really like it
I feel kind of dirty and like I just cheated on someone. But I have to say, it's ticking all the boxes.
Any fellow Mac fans want to partake some guidance/advice/experience with the transition from Windows to OSX?
I feel kind of dirty and like I just cheated on someone. But I have to say, it's ticking all the boxes.
Any fellow Mac fans want to partake some guidance/advice/experience with the transition from Windows to OSX?
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Not much to really do. I'd suggest firefox over safari. uTorrent for well torrents. Transmission for everything else and torrents if you want. Libreoffice is a great office package unless you want to pony up for microsoft office but it's not worth it in my opinion.
Get iLife 11 it's awesome.
But as far as actual change from windows to osx. There's not much to do. Just reserve yourself to the fact that your new mac's strong point isn't gaming but it'll do everything else with aplomb. If you want gaming you can either bootcamp install windows onto it for a stronger gaming experience or if you just want some gaming you can get vmware fusion or parallels and virtually install windows.
Not much else to say. The rest is common computer stuff. Put as much ram into it as you can and your mac will run faster and faster. Just don't buy the ram from your apple store it will cost you more.
Now if there are specific questions ask away.
STUPID REALITY DISTORTION FIELD... FUFUFUFUFUFUFUFU
I am starting to wonder if there is anything that will come up to make me want to return it after 14 days.
I think Fusion is the killer app for me software wise. Can still run putty, winscp and random windows apps when needed.
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QuickSilver : http://www.blacktree.com/
I personally use Alfred (QS was unsupported for far too long, although it seems it's back up now)
Visor : http://visor.binaryage.com/
Perian : http://perian.org/
WinSCP? Buy Transmit 4. It rules.
I must admit Outlook 2011 > Mail & iCal.
Sequel Pro = must have (and free).
Kaleidoscope I recently discovered for diffs.
Knox is sweet for encrypted volumes. I use it to store my company's data securely (I'm reticent to use full-drive encryption).
Sidestep is a great little utility for automatically connecting to a secure proxy when you're on public wifi.
// Edit: Firefox's bookmark toolbar gives me conniptions on the Mac (can't right-click a bookmark to edit or delete) so I've switched to Chrome... which conveniently developed it's own damning bug in the same area recently (can't drag into a subfolder). Currently still using Chrome, though I make liberal use of Firefox and Safari on a daily basis.
I will eventually dump the windows apps for their Mac variants. This just allows an element of adjustment time while I familiarise.
I have been considering this move for quite some time as no windows laptops are really selling themselves to me. Tough call that was.
Is transmission as good as rated? I have heard some negatives around it's use of public key (as that is what I use for SCP/SFTP auth).
//edit: Also, there's a free 30-day trial I believe, as with all Panic products.
FTFY.
I use Adium, but I want to break its little wing so it never waves at me again.
That depends, did you buy it from John Lewis?
If you didn't and thus missed out on a 2 year standard warranty and a free 500GB buffalo HDD at the same price you dun goof'd.
Nah. Airport tax free as I am in Sunny Spain this week for work. Cheapest deal.
now who needs a kidney?
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/triplebootmbp/
this doesn't work anymore
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Main Menu is a must as well (Like CCleaner)
http://mainmenuapp.com/
Applejack for Emergency Troubleshooting
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/
IPSec VPN Connections
http://www.lobotomo.com/products/IPSecuritas/
Chicken of the VNC (Now just Chicken) VNC Client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chicken/
Visor from above for sure (Quake style terminal)
Welcome to the glorious world of NO spyware, malware or anti-virus programs.
I am not saying there are NO Viruses for the Mac... I have personally seen one on System 7...
... says the master of contradiction.
Even on my Hackintosh Lenovo, the trackpad under OSX is infinitely more usable than on Windows 7, which behaves sluggishly (or sometimes not at all!). The drivers/software under Windows is horrendous, if I have to do any kind of gestures in Windows I end up irate. Apple just nails some things, that is definitely one of them.
I changed fusion to parallels. Fusion was a real hog where as parallels is far more resource stingy. It also parks the whole image if it's not running any foreground apps. Worth the few quid that is.
Still love my Windows though