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<blockquote data-quote="DarkestRitual" data-source="post: 1017749" data-attributes="member: 96273"><p>Howdy. My name's Jason. MacHead for life (since the late 80s/early 90s). I'm glad to help you out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll do you one better. I use my 13 inch aluminum MacBook (it's a 13 inch pro with different ports) everywhere, including band practice. She has taken many drum stick pieces to the back of the screen. The aluminum holds up well. I do not protect it at all beyond my Brenthaven Sling I backpack (they make different sizes for each macbook). The backpack is great if you don't need to carry a ton of other stuff with you, like books. So probably not for university if you don't have digital textbooks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It will require reformatting, but I would format it for OS X instead of windows, because your desktop will be getting a lot less use once you start using OS X. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p> I got through College with NeoOffice and OpenOffice. (Same program, different ports). Saves to office formats, and is free.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Be prepared to question why you didn't do this sooner. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>iLife - iCal (calendar), Mail, GarageBand (excellent), iMovie, iDVD, iWeb (a pretty crippled blogging tool geared for use with mobile me, but i don't subscribe to mobile me), iChat (I'd replace with adium for most general use, but if you use video chat, ichat is nice)</p><p></p><p>Mail is the best native mail app out there, too.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yea, that'll work fine. When it says "for Mac" it's usually a hard drive of some sort that they format to Mac OS journaled or FAT32 instead of the Windows only NTFS. Other times, it's marketing. But yea, only need to really be careful with storage devices that may need reformatting (but that's easy enough to reformat on your own using Disk Utility... done it countless times).</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkestRitual, post: 1017749, member: 96273"] Howdy. My name's Jason. MacHead for life (since the late 80s/early 90s). I'm glad to help you out. I'll do you one better. I use my 13 inch aluminum MacBook (it's a 13 inch pro with different ports) everywhere, including band practice. She has taken many drum stick pieces to the back of the screen. The aluminum holds up well. I do not protect it at all beyond my Brenthaven Sling I backpack (they make different sizes for each macbook). The backpack is great if you don't need to carry a ton of other stuff with you, like books. So probably not for university if you don't have digital textbooks. It will require reformatting, but I would format it for OS X instead of windows, because your desktop will be getting a lot less use once you start using OS X. :) I got through College with NeoOffice and OpenOffice. (Same program, different ports). Saves to office formats, and is free. Be prepared to question why you didn't do this sooner. :) iLife - iCal (calendar), Mail, GarageBand (excellent), iMovie, iDVD, iWeb (a pretty crippled blogging tool geared for use with mobile me, but i don't subscribe to mobile me), iChat (I'd replace with adium for most general use, but if you use video chat, ichat is nice) Mail is the best native mail app out there, too. Yea, that'll work fine. When it says "for Mac" it's usually a hard drive of some sort that they format to Mac OS journaled or FAT32 instead of the Windows only NTFS. Other times, it's marketing. But yea, only need to really be careful with storage devices that may need reformatting (but that's easy enough to reformat on your own using Disk Utility... done it countless times). Hope that helps. :) [/QUOTE]
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