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- Dec 16, 2009
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- Baytown, Tx
- Your Mac's Specs
- Late 2009 Macbook Pro 2.26, 160gb HD, 2gb RAM, OSX 10.6; Emac 1.42ghz 80gb HD 2gb RAM OSX 10.5
Let me first say that I am a novice mac user, however, I do have a little experience. My first experience with mac was one of my old college friends showing me how to do video editing on his e-mac. Since, I've had an interest in macs, and I'd always preferred to use the mac lab, as opposed to the PC lab at school.
Now, we have two windows towers and a windows laptop at home (wife wanted a mac, but at the time we couldn't afford it), and I'd been wanting a macbook pro. I've been lurking on here for quite some time, now, and researching, as well as playing with the laptops at the apple store, trying to get a feel for the OS.
None of that had me prepared, however. I quickly realized after opening my laptop that the computers at school and in the store were loaded with junk and bloated horribly. That's the only explanation I have for my new laptop running so much more smoother and quickly. It is literally blazingly fast, and easily outpaces my built up HTPC.
Once I opened up the machine, I was given a much more warm welcome than windows ever gave me, with the beautiful opening animation. The setup was lightning fast. Took about 5 minutes, including registration, to setup the machine, which would have taken about an hour in windows. Wireless setup was as easy as selecting my router and typing in the password. Much easier than having to screw around with my settings like I did/do on the windows laptop.
I haven't gotten to play around with the programs or anything too much, because I didn't get it setup until about 11 last night, but I will say that I turned on Safari and I was impressed. I always used firefox at school, and as a switcher, I guess it was just more comfortable for me. However, playing with safari in this new book, I realized it works alot faster, and it has some interesting features. That being said, I understand I'll probably have to use firefox sometimes, and I did run into a couple of pages that safari had trouble loading properly.
I didn't get any word processors, yet, because I want to check what discounts we have at my wife's school (I used her student discount to get the book), however, I'm leaning towards I-work.
Either way, I'm thoroughly impressed, and I look forward to getting to know the OS alot better.
Now, we have two windows towers and a windows laptop at home (wife wanted a mac, but at the time we couldn't afford it), and I'd been wanting a macbook pro. I've been lurking on here for quite some time, now, and researching, as well as playing with the laptops at the apple store, trying to get a feel for the OS.
None of that had me prepared, however. I quickly realized after opening my laptop that the computers at school and in the store were loaded with junk and bloated horribly. That's the only explanation I have for my new laptop running so much more smoother and quickly. It is literally blazingly fast, and easily outpaces my built up HTPC.
Once I opened up the machine, I was given a much more warm welcome than windows ever gave me, with the beautiful opening animation. The setup was lightning fast. Took about 5 minutes, including registration, to setup the machine, which would have taken about an hour in windows. Wireless setup was as easy as selecting my router and typing in the password. Much easier than having to screw around with my settings like I did/do on the windows laptop.
I haven't gotten to play around with the programs or anything too much, because I didn't get it setup until about 11 last night, but I will say that I turned on Safari and I was impressed. I always used firefox at school, and as a switcher, I guess it was just more comfortable for me. However, playing with safari in this new book, I realized it works alot faster, and it has some interesting features. That being said, I understand I'll probably have to use firefox sometimes, and I did run into a couple of pages that safari had trouble loading properly.
I didn't get any word processors, yet, because I want to check what discounts we have at my wife's school (I used her student discount to get the book), however, I'm leaning towards I-work.
Either way, I'm thoroughly impressed, and I look forward to getting to know the OS alot better.