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Hi All,
I am new to this forum. I recently purchased my first Mac. I bought a black MacBook because I liked the form factor with the 13.3" screen. I was not entirely satisfied with it though. I was little surprised at the noticable refresh lines on the screen. Granted, I could only see them from certain angles but I was surprised nonetheless. I think the 13" MacBook is a great design with a couple of equipment flaws. The integrated graphics and the screen issues being what I'm talking about. Well, I only had it for a week and it started locking up everytime I tried to wake it up with the Bluetooth mouse. So, I took it back to the store and replaced it with a MacBook Pro. I am very glad I did. The MBP display itself is much better and I am ok with the overall size of it. I really like smaller laptops so this was a tough decision for me. The other factor was a dedicated GPU vs the integrated Intel setup on the regular MacBook. I bought the baseline with the 2.16 Core2Duo 1GB RAM and the 120GB HD. I may end up adding more RAM but so far I haven't found it necessary.
I have been in the IT industry for over 17 years and I've been exposed to Macs a little here and there. I started with MS-DOS and I've messed around with CP/M on an orginal IBM PC. I've messed with pretty much every DOS utility or Menu system and I've loaded every Windows version since 2.0. I've messed with every version of OS/2 since 2.11. I also used GeoWorks Ensemble for a while. GWE was very impressive at the time. I never really had a lot of interest in Macs since everything I used a computer for was designed for a PC. My interest in Macs really began with OSX. Because it's a Unix based OS I somehow find it more interesting. It's kind of like Linux only better(IMO). The first time I loaded Linux on a PC was in '92. It was a Slackware distribution. It was fun getting it up and running but then I just had no use for it as my daily system. I've loaded many distros since then and Ubuntu came very close to becoming my daily system. I am ENTIRELY comfortable using OSX as my daily system. It's kind of freaky how easily I've acclimated myself to it already.
I still have a Vista laptop and a Vista desktop though.
I am new to this forum. I recently purchased my first Mac. I bought a black MacBook because I liked the form factor with the 13.3" screen. I was not entirely satisfied with it though. I was little surprised at the noticable refresh lines on the screen. Granted, I could only see them from certain angles but I was surprised nonetheless. I think the 13" MacBook is a great design with a couple of equipment flaws. The integrated graphics and the screen issues being what I'm talking about. Well, I only had it for a week and it started locking up everytime I tried to wake it up with the Bluetooth mouse. So, I took it back to the store and replaced it with a MacBook Pro. I am very glad I did. The MBP display itself is much better and I am ok with the overall size of it. I really like smaller laptops so this was a tough decision for me. The other factor was a dedicated GPU vs the integrated Intel setup on the regular MacBook. I bought the baseline with the 2.16 Core2Duo 1GB RAM and the 120GB HD. I may end up adding more RAM but so far I haven't found it necessary.
I have been in the IT industry for over 17 years and I've been exposed to Macs a little here and there. I started with MS-DOS and I've messed around with CP/M on an orginal IBM PC. I've messed with pretty much every DOS utility or Menu system and I've loaded every Windows version since 2.0. I've messed with every version of OS/2 since 2.11. I also used GeoWorks Ensemble for a while. GWE was very impressive at the time. I never really had a lot of interest in Macs since everything I used a computer for was designed for a PC. My interest in Macs really began with OSX. Because it's a Unix based OS I somehow find it more interesting. It's kind of like Linux only better(IMO). The first time I loaded Linux on a PC was in '92. It was a Slackware distribution. It was fun getting it up and running but then I just had no use for it as my daily system. I've loaded many distros since then and Ubuntu came very close to becoming my daily system. I am ENTIRELY comfortable using OSX as my daily system. It's kind of freaky how easily I've acclimated myself to it already.
I still have a Vista laptop and a Vista desktop though.
