Well....I've done it!!!

I've always had a niggling desire within me to give Mac products a go, despite me being an IT Engineer and having using Windows since the days of Windows 95 (I'm only 26 haha)

I bought myself an iPad 2 a month ago, and have enjoyed it a lot since purchase.

Today, I gave in and decided to go the next step and buy myself a 13" Macbook Air!! This post is being typed upon my new Air as I write of course!!!

I'm looking forward to diving in and seeing what OSX Lion has to offer, but so far I have enjoyed what I have seen. I have to make comment on the fact I love the keyboard, the way the keys feel under my fingers.......I'm writing my first novel at the moment and I seriously think that I will enjoy writing the rest of my novel on my new Macbook, provided I can convert my Word docs to Pages

Here's to enjoying my new purchase!!!

Congrats!!!

You should have no problem viewing word docs on Pages
Congratulations on the Macbook Air

Yeah I'm sure I will enjoy it, I like the smoothness that OSX seems to have, and as I have already stated, I just love typing on the keyboard!!! Downloading Pages just now, so will hopefully get that running soon.

Already have Eset for Mac AV installed too so that's been taken care of!!

Also, can I ask, is there any way you can configure the Mail app to limit the number of email messages it downloads from Gmail/Hotmail etc.

I've had a look in the settings but there doesn't seem to be any way. Is it possible? Or does it just pull down everything when you setup an account?

Thanks!!

It pulls down everything that's stored on the server when you first set it up, so the only way to control that is to clean up what's on the server. After that of course it will just pull down what's new.

If your email account is POP, I suggest setting the preference to remove the email from the server when it's moved out of the Inbox (ie you've filed it or deleted it).

If your email is IMAP, then there's really nothing you need do.

Where are the speakers located on the Macbook Air?? Are they under the keyboard, the sound quality on the Macbook Air is amazing. I've never had anything like it on a laptop before!!

Congrats

Congratulations. That was a necessary change. You've finally joined the major league.

I have a MacBook Pro 2010 so I wouldn't know where the Air's speakers are, but I'm guessing under the silver bezel, not the keyboard.

I don't own a MBA, but I believe the speakers are "hidden" under the "unihinge" and bounce the sound off the bottom of the screen. It's quite clever, really.

Fisher85 said:

Yeah I'm sure I will enjoy it, I like the smoothness that OSX seems to have, and as I have already stated, I just love typing on the keyboard!!! Downloading Pages just now, so will hopefully get that running soon.

Already have Eset for Mac AV installed too so that's been taken care of!!

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Take it from one other long time IT guy. since dos 2.1 days. Give up the idea of Antivirus. it will only slow down your machine. the only way a virus or Trojan can infect you is if you install it yourself.

Hi,

Congrats on the Mac move, best wishes for the book.