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- Your Mac's Specs
- Macbook: 2.00Ghz C2D, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD
First of all I am a switcher. Although to be honest I am only 18 and even though I have been using Windows most of my life, the change in software isn't too dramatic.
My Macbook has the following specs:
White
2.00GHz C2D
2GB RAM
120GB HDD
also:
iCurve
Wireless Keyboard
Wireless Mouse
inCase sleeve
So as you can see I spent a little extra getting the specs up!
My delivery was bang on time which was nice, however I am impatient with things like this so two weeks was a long long time to wait =)
During this time the apple support were very helpful. I realised that I had missed out on the educational discount so one of their members of staff arranged this for me with no hassle and I was never put on hold at all. Great work there.
When it arrived... wow I was impressed. Beautiful package and laptop, all of the accessoriers I ordered were great too.
Creating my account, I was very impressed with how fast it connected to my home network and was ready to go! So I created my account and then did the automatic software update.
But then... the ugly... ugh... after rebooting, the laptop wouldn't open iTunes, Quicktime or PhotoBooth. So after about an hour on the phone to tech support I eventually reinstalled the OS and this fixed the problems.
However being a switcher... having to reinstall the OS on a £1000 laptop was very dissapointing to me, really wound me up.
So I played around with it for a while, having great fun and took it to University with me today. Went into the Union and found that it was very easy to connect to the University wireless. Great! Surfing away and having good fun. Out of my ignorance of Mac OS X though I couldn't manage to get Mac Messenger to work at University. It works at home though, so its probably proxy related.
Oh and that brings me to mac Messenger. I buy a laptop with an in-built webcam and mac Messenger doesn't support webcams? Is there any way around this?
Ok... so then I went into the computer science building at University which runs a seperate network based on NetGear wireless ports. For some reason I CANNOT connect to this network. Asked the tech support guys and they said the new C2D Macbooks are not compatible with the NetGear wireless ports installed. What is that all about? There must be some work-around... it is a very nice building for studying and hanging about in.
So last thing, if this rant is getting too long Sat in the Union and wrote up a lab report using Pages. I actually prefer it to Word, it is much simpler, faster and tidier and makes you less lazy. So I wrote up this report, took it to the computer labs and guess what... they couldn't open the Pages file and of course I can't connect to that network to use the printers!
So I used the export feature of Pages to quickly turn it into a Word file and then tried again. Man, what a bad export job. It totally screwed all my circuit diagrams, layouts and graphs.... And by this time I didn't have time to change everything because the report was due. =[
So to summarise (!): beautiful machine, great battery life, kinda quiet speakers, great wireless (WHEN IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE ROUTER), but (and leading on from the last point) poor portability.
I mean portability in the computing term, its easy to carry around
Anyone offer me any advice on anything? I don't see it as a very big switch if all the applications I am running are Windows ports....
My Macbook has the following specs:
White
2.00GHz C2D
2GB RAM
120GB HDD
also:
iCurve
Wireless Keyboard
Wireless Mouse
inCase sleeve
So as you can see I spent a little extra getting the specs up!
My delivery was bang on time which was nice, however I am impatient with things like this so two weeks was a long long time to wait =)
During this time the apple support were very helpful. I realised that I had missed out on the educational discount so one of their members of staff arranged this for me with no hassle and I was never put on hold at all. Great work there.
When it arrived... wow I was impressed. Beautiful package and laptop, all of the accessoriers I ordered were great too.
Creating my account, I was very impressed with how fast it connected to my home network and was ready to go! So I created my account and then did the automatic software update.
But then... the ugly... ugh... after rebooting, the laptop wouldn't open iTunes, Quicktime or PhotoBooth. So after about an hour on the phone to tech support I eventually reinstalled the OS and this fixed the problems.
However being a switcher... having to reinstall the OS on a £1000 laptop was very dissapointing to me, really wound me up.
So I played around with it for a while, having great fun and took it to University with me today. Went into the Union and found that it was very easy to connect to the University wireless. Great! Surfing away and having good fun. Out of my ignorance of Mac OS X though I couldn't manage to get Mac Messenger to work at University. It works at home though, so its probably proxy related.
Oh and that brings me to mac Messenger. I buy a laptop with an in-built webcam and mac Messenger doesn't support webcams? Is there any way around this?
Ok... so then I went into the computer science building at University which runs a seperate network based on NetGear wireless ports. For some reason I CANNOT connect to this network. Asked the tech support guys and they said the new C2D Macbooks are not compatible with the NetGear wireless ports installed. What is that all about? There must be some work-around... it is a very nice building for studying and hanging about in.
So last thing, if this rant is getting too long Sat in the Union and wrote up a lab report using Pages. I actually prefer it to Word, it is much simpler, faster and tidier and makes you less lazy. So I wrote up this report, took it to the computer labs and guess what... they couldn't open the Pages file and of course I can't connect to that network to use the printers!
So I used the export feature of Pages to quickly turn it into a Word file and then tried again. Man, what a bad export job. It totally screwed all my circuit diagrams, layouts and graphs.... And by this time I didn't have time to change everything because the report was due. =[
So to summarise (!): beautiful machine, great battery life, kinda quiet speakers, great wireless (WHEN IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE ROUTER), but (and leading on from the last point) poor portability.
I mean portability in the computing term, its easy to carry around
Anyone offer me any advice on anything? I don't see it as a very big switch if all the applications I am running are Windows ports....