Hello,
This is my first post. As a 15 year PC guy (not that long compared to some), and a consumer who recently purchased another laptop, I am really considering moving to a mac, but I have some questions. I almost always have my work laptop for my day job which gives me access to windows, I just realized that I usually just stay on the my work laptop at home when I surf since there isn't much difference between my new one and the work unit. That got me thinking, at home I have options....
I have used PC's forever. I use gmail for my personal e-mail, and then google apps for my business that I own. I use contacts mostly on my personal for both accounts, but use multiple calendars under my personal gmail and gapps.
Here is my question. I currently use Thunderbird to sync all of my contacts with google and all of my calendars. Is there away to do this with mac?
Also, I use go to meeting, and other business apps to hold meetings and conferences. I basically need a mac that can do all of the e-mails web surfing, plus I really like the presentation with the iwork software.
I also need to be able to handle multiple user accounts, one for me, one for my wife. Is there a good way to setup a mac so the itunes library, photos and videos can be accessed by both of us?
Last but not least the thing that pulled me in is the functionality with iphoto, itunes, and imovie. I am working with family photos and movies, and really like that I can get whatever media I want and roll it together with out using the explorer window. I tried using Photoshop elements and it takes a few seconds between going from the edit functions to projects and this is on a 3 month old laptop with 4GB of ram and windows 7.
I think I can sell my current PC for about $550, but when I add in Adobe Elements and Premiere, plus the New Windows 7 (using the RC now and it's great, I won't go back to Vista, I will go back to Linux before Vista) I have an extra $240 in software that I will need to buy in the next few months. I would be at $790 and within $200 of a 13" macbook refurb through Apple or on a new one on Ebay for $1069 with the bing.com cashback.
All of that said, I am thinking I can get buy with a 13" as I need to take it with me and my new PC is a 16" 16:9 and I think it is to big to lug around. If I really like the MBP, I will probably end up getting an imac for home or another MBP for the wife.
What information do I need to know? Is there anything I missed?
This is my first post. As a 15 year PC guy (not that long compared to some), and a consumer who recently purchased another laptop, I am really considering moving to a mac, but I have some questions. I almost always have my work laptop for my day job which gives me access to windows, I just realized that I usually just stay on the my work laptop at home when I surf since there isn't much difference between my new one and the work unit. That got me thinking, at home I have options....
I have used PC's forever. I use gmail for my personal e-mail, and then google apps for my business that I own. I use contacts mostly on my personal for both accounts, but use multiple calendars under my personal gmail and gapps.
Here is my question. I currently use Thunderbird to sync all of my contacts with google and all of my calendars. Is there away to do this with mac?
Also, I use go to meeting, and other business apps to hold meetings and conferences. I basically need a mac that can do all of the e-mails web surfing, plus I really like the presentation with the iwork software.
I also need to be able to handle multiple user accounts, one for me, one for my wife. Is there a good way to setup a mac so the itunes library, photos and videos can be accessed by both of us?
Last but not least the thing that pulled me in is the functionality with iphoto, itunes, and imovie. I am working with family photos and movies, and really like that I can get whatever media I want and roll it together with out using the explorer window. I tried using Photoshop elements and it takes a few seconds between going from the edit functions to projects and this is on a 3 month old laptop with 4GB of ram and windows 7.
I think I can sell my current PC for about $550, but when I add in Adobe Elements and Premiere, plus the New Windows 7 (using the RC now and it's great, I won't go back to Vista, I will go back to Linux before Vista) I have an extra $240 in software that I will need to buy in the next few months. I would be at $790 and within $200 of a 13" macbook refurb through Apple or on a new one on Ebay for $1069 with the bing.com cashback.
All of that said, I am thinking I can get buy with a 13" as I need to take it with me and my new PC is a 16" 16:9 and I think it is to big to lug around. If I really like the MBP, I will probably end up getting an imac for home or another MBP for the wife.
What information do I need to know? Is there anything I missed?
And yes, while I haven't bothered with itunes, here's how to do it in iphoto.
