Proud owner of a Macbook Pro!

Hey guys, just picked up my spankin new macbook pro tonight and i am loving it! Got it for my graduation present. Its the 2.16ghz, 15" version. Ive got one question. I downloaded aim 4.7 and it shuts down randomy a lot. A friend of mine who has a G5 also has this problem... any way to fix it? And one more thing, whats a good bittorrent program for os x? I found tomato torrent, but is there any better? Azureus didnt seem to work. Thanks guys!

First off congrats on your graduation present, your parents buy good gifts. I didn't keep AIM on long enough to experience such problems. May I suggest you use http://www.adiumx.com/ for all your instant messaging needs?

I have yet to use bittorrent on my Mac but you may wanna try out Bit Tornado. Good luck.

Thanks, Mattlike. Ill check out those links. And hey, why not reward the son thats been nothing but good to them? Weve got my brother, the bad apple... and lets just say hes still on a Toshiba *grin*

aim hasnt, to the best of my knowlege, been updated for osx in like 9 million years so it is way out of date. i also suggest you two use adiumx it is a great multi-client chat program
-chris

Downloading as we speak. I figured it hadnt.. seeing as the version is 4.7

Cool, adium also tought me how to properly install stuff!

osx does come with iChat, which is the official aim is it not? atleast i hafta switch to that when transfers wont work

theres also Fire messenger, but id hafta say majority of mac people are on Adium.

Yea, im liking adium so far. How do i uninstall stuff? Just delete it?

I Use Acquisition.

if it came with an installer and has an uninstaller use that....but basically just drag the file from your apps folder to the trash. this method will leave a few straggling files which in total may add up to 1 or 2mb and you dont really need to bother them....if you want to bother with them do a forum search on deleting files

Great, thanks!

Use iChat for aim. Its awesome...looks awesome, does what aim does, very clean.

I didnt know iChat had aim. i thought all it did was like, that video stuff. I suppose ill take a look at it.

if ichat let you tab windows id use it

Personally I love Adium. I have it on my MB and the tabbed windows combined with built in spell check mean I will not be leaving it any time soon. If only they made a WinXP version for when I am on my desktop...

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Personally I love Adium. I have it on my MB and the tabbed windows combined with built in spell check mean I will not be leaving it any time soon. If only they made a WinXP version for when I am on my desktop...

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While Adium is no doubt the best chat client I have found for OSX, on the Windows side I use a program called Trillian . Between these two programs they make sure that none of my platforms are infested with anything from AOL. Trillian offers tabbing, I believe spellcheck, as well as wikipedia links to uncommon words right in the conversation window. If you are still using XP and need a chat client then Trillian is the closest thing to Adium you will find.

I also use trillian for Windows on my desktop. Takes a while to get use to, but all in all, its a great client. Especially if you use YIM, MSN, AIM, IRC, etc.

I think the best torrent program on Mac is Transmission.

Cool, ill check it out.

You are lucky, congratulations for getting the spankin' present.

Torrents: Azureus, full featured beast. Transmission light weight to get the job done but seems to miss out on a lot of peers.

Chat: AdiumX no question there. iChat for A/V tho.

Windows: GAIM supports more protocols than Trillian and you don't have to pay for them.