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Hey, Everyone!
I decided it wouldn't hurt to track down a decent Mac-related forum given I am a few weeks into owning a 15" MacBook Pro.
After swallowing the price tag, I walked away with (more like received from FedEx):
MacBook Pro - 15"
1680x1050 Glossy display
128gb SSD
4gb DDR3
Quad-core 2.2ghz i7
Since I knew I could add more storage and ram for cheaper than Apple wanted, I bought a 750GB WD Black 7200RPM drive and an adapter caddie and swapped out my SuperDrive, and I swapped my 2x2GB RAM sticks for 2x4GB sticks.
I could have gone for the standard HDD on order and replaced it and added another 750 for 1.5TB but I wanted the speed I know all too well with my high-end custom tower.
Although I bought a mac laptop, I do not plan on ditching Windows. This mac is replacing a 4 year old Sony laptop that I loved but was not performing up to spec for what I needed it and I wanted a machine that I didn't have to worry about and have to fork over cash to upgrade every six months because software is overpowering it. That idea is for my tower that sports six 3.2ghz cores, 8GB of ram, 3TB of 7200RPM drives and an SSD, a BD-RW drive, two Radeon 6850s and a 1kw power supply.
I got a nice discount being a student and working for my search engine employer. It's a fun machine. I transferred over my iTunes (350GB worth) and went shopping at the App Store. I love Angry Birds and as odd as it seems, Office for Mac works much better than Office for Windows. >.> I don't know how to take that.
(Why not use OpenOffice or Pages?) Because they do not serve nearly enough of my needs. My school requires native Word usage and since I got it for half price anyways, it's not a big deal. I did buy Keynote, however. I love it much more over PowerPoint.
So now that I've gotten that out of the way... Hi!
I decided it wouldn't hurt to track down a decent Mac-related forum given I am a few weeks into owning a 15" MacBook Pro.
After swallowing the price tag, I walked away with (more like received from FedEx):
MacBook Pro - 15"
1680x1050 Glossy display
128gb SSD
4gb DDR3
Quad-core 2.2ghz i7
Since I knew I could add more storage and ram for cheaper than Apple wanted, I bought a 750GB WD Black 7200RPM drive and an adapter caddie and swapped out my SuperDrive, and I swapped my 2x2GB RAM sticks for 2x4GB sticks.
I could have gone for the standard HDD on order and replaced it and added another 750 for 1.5TB but I wanted the speed I know all too well with my high-end custom tower.
Although I bought a mac laptop, I do not plan on ditching Windows. This mac is replacing a 4 year old Sony laptop that I loved but was not performing up to spec for what I needed it and I wanted a machine that I didn't have to worry about and have to fork over cash to upgrade every six months because software is overpowering it. That idea is for my tower that sports six 3.2ghz cores, 8GB of ram, 3TB of 7200RPM drives and an SSD, a BD-RW drive, two Radeon 6850s and a 1kw power supply.
I got a nice discount being a student and working for my search engine employer. It's a fun machine. I transferred over my iTunes (350GB worth) and went shopping at the App Store. I love Angry Birds and as odd as it seems, Office for Mac works much better than Office for Windows. >.> I don't know how to take that.
(Why not use OpenOffice or Pages?) Because they do not serve nearly enough of my needs. My school requires native Word usage and since I got it for half price anyways, it's not a big deal. I did buy Keynote, however. I love it much more over PowerPoint.
So now that I've gotten that out of the way... Hi!