First post on my macbook

kaz2550 · May 9, 2007

I finally received it today after an agonising wait, and wow! I was amazed at how simple the initial set up was. It took just one window to select which network I'd like to connect and that was it. I remember spending at least 1 hour trying to get the PC to recognise the same network. Didn't purchase .mac but might do later on.

Don't laugh, but one thing I noticed which impressed me was that all the texts look better for some reason. They look like they are on a pdf file. cool.

The screen seems to me to be a little bit dark. Is there a way to increase the brightness? Can't seem to find it.

Heh I'm gonna have a little play around on it now! ;D

KoDorSean · May 9, 2007

welcome! Very nice setup you have there.. I am at work using a PC, so forgive my possible wrong information.. To turn up and down your brightness it should be F6 or F7. If its not F6 or F7 its one of the F keys.

Kash · May 9, 2007

Close, but no cigar

It's the F1 and F2 keys

KoDorSean · May 9, 2007

Kash said:
Close, but no cigar

It's the F1 and F2 keys

Leave it to you to clean up my mess. ;P

Flic · May 9, 2007

Enjoy your new MacBook! Be sure to browse the forum for lots of cool little things your new toy can do! One of my faves is holding down ctrl and scrolling to zoom in and out of things

simple minds...

novicew · May 9, 2007

Congrats! on your new purchase.

dtravis7 · May 9, 2007

Kash said:
Close, but no cigar

It's the F1 and F2 keys

F4-F5 is Volume up and down. Congrats on the new Black Mac Book. Enjoy. Sounds like you already are!!

egandolfi · May 9, 2007

Congrats and good luck!!! They are really beautiful machines.

kaz2550 · May 9, 2007

oh lol yeah thanks for that. Duh to myself

Control and scroll zooming is awesome I would have never found it on my own thanks! Countless times I had to copy and paste into paint to zoom into stuff on my now-old PC... I haven't got much time to do stuff today but tomorrow I'll download more stuff!

narf1899 · May 9, 2007

what u said about the PDF-looking-ness was actually right, mac OS X is completely pdf based...
and speaking of copy'n and paste'n, apple-c and apple-v are really quick ways to do this...
and remember to apple-Q ur applications!

MaDDoG · May 9, 2007

Welcome and enjoy....F1 and F2 on a MBP

kaz2550 · May 9, 2007

Could someone explain to me what widgets are and where I could get them from?

RawfodoG · May 9, 2007

I just bought a similar setup. Think you love it now? Youll love it even more as time goes on!!

Mattlike · May 9, 2007

kaz2550 said:
Could someone explain to me what widgets are and where I could get them from?

If you go to your dashboard, you will see your widgets.

You can get many from here http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/categories.html

or there is the yahoo widget engine (formerly konfabulator) http://widgets.yahoo.com/

voiceofra · May 9, 2007

kaz2550 said:
Could someone explain to me what widgets are and where I could get them from?

Press F12. those are widgets - little 'mini applications' that reside on your Dashboard.
You can get a ton of them from http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

narf1899 · May 9, 2007

"what are widgets?"
well they are basically mini-apps, designed for one specific purpose, that float on a transparent layer called the dashboard, which is always ready in a dash. (by pressing F12)

kaz2550 · May 11, 2007

Last night I managed to download Adium, NeoOffice, Quicksilver, Handbrake, MacTheRipper, StuffItExpander and Flip4Mac. I also installed my Line 6 Toneport software on it. I liked how all the downloaded apps just tell you to drag the file to the applications folder with not much configurations to do!

One problem though, my NeoOffice only had the word-alike program. Where's all the others? Did I install it wrong?

Few questions:
Is there an easier way of changing volume than going thru prefs and going to sound?
Is there a good way to organise windows? I use F9 but there's gotta be a better way or so I hope. You can't see what windows you have open if they are overlapped until you press F9; I opened things twice by accident many times last night.
How do I set my toneport to be an input source for garageband?

Thanks

Glenners · May 11, 2007

For organizing open windows use the expose feature. I believe there are volume up and volume down buttons on the top right hand side of the keyboard.

Village Idiot · May 11, 2007

narf1899 said:
what u said about the PDF-looking-ness was actually right, mac OS X is completely pdf based...
and speaking of copy'n and paste'n, apple-c and apple-v are really quick ways to do this...
and remember to apple-Q ur applications!

It's not based on Unix/Linux?

MinaMACMan · May 11, 2007

Apple OSX is based on Unix which WONDERFUL and thats why its so stable ;D

For the adjusting volume question.

2 Options u got:

1. ctrl+ F4(Volume Down)/ F5(Volume Up) and F3 for Mute.

2. There is a Speaker Icon on the top of the screen, One click on it will show u the volume control bar.

Enjoy ur MacBook and a Recent Switcher my self I have Black MacBook and am Loving it

Cheers