Swithing to Mac from PC - What do I need to know?
 

So I have ordered a Macbook Pro at the encouraging of coworkers and friends. My 1yo HP laptop with 4GB RAM takes about 15 minutes to fully reboot and load the programs. i've had enough.

The 24" LED Cinema display arrived today. The laptop should arrive early next week.

What do I need to know? Are there any good resources for lifetime PC users making the switch?

Use Adium as your chat messenger.

funny..im doing the very same thing...all i can say, dont over think...ive noticed almost every time im looking for something...bam its right where it should be...Mac users know what i am talking about....its way cleaner (Prgoram wise) than PC and obviously doesnt come with all that crap a PC usually comes with

i use Adium....it jsut asked me to update and added something called Growl...now i seem to need to have both programs running inorder to be seen online....being a n00b Mac guy....thoughts on that?...normal? thanks

get ready for a bunch of retards to call you a fan boi.

Yeah, I hear Adium is what I need instead of Trillian. I'm not really following, I'm just tired of the slow loading 1yo PC. I mean at 1yo with 4GB RAM it should not be loading this slow. I want a better solution to use my time more efficiently!

:2 cents::1orglaugh

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Expect to pay more and to be deleted from people's ICQ list.

I didn't get the Growl update thingy.

What's cool about Macs is that you get the computer, turn it on and it's ready to use. No installing software after software.

Growl I think is just for custom notifications, you can remove it. I don't use it.

Hey Mike, hit me up on ICQ when you have a sec!

sup sharky.. I use both pc and mac, but mac is friggin smoothe man, just updated my macbook with Snow Leopard OS.. go with that if you can.. faster than regular Leopard.

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

why do you say that?

yeah I believe it came with snow leopard. Thanks for that link.

Because Adium keeps sending out these requests that I update my client to be compatible with theirs. Not going to happen (not even an option to be honest).

I have thinned out my ICQ list by about 50 people in the last week.

interesting. I have a lot of folks with adium on my list and I never got it. what are you using?

done;-) ping

i switched 2 months ago and love it, never had touched an apple before

took a few days to get used to some keypad shortcut differences and the tricks you can do with the trackpad gestures. those are essential.

confused for a few days about the delete button, which is more like a backspace than the delete you are used to. ... fn+delete was a great find for me :)

for the first week i had mine i didnt like the mouse since i was so used to the 2 button PC mouse... then i realized you could go into your mouse settings and set the right side for "seconday" and then you can right click on things

discover the spotlight (magnifying glass in upper right corner) that thing is a godsend!

and yeah, adium rocks

i had a thread a while back with similar questions, and had some good response on various programs you may want to check out

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=...ighlight=apple

I use ICQ.

Why is it that your ICQ is one of the few, on my list of well over 700, that almost always writes the same responses back to me twice?

[09:03] baddog: maybe he does not know that
[09:03] baddog: maybe he does not know that
[09:03] baddog: techs don't usually know details like that
[09:03] baddog: techs don't usually know details like that

And this is on my PC running Trillian, not on my Mac.

Maybe you should consider updating your client?

Swithing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharky, I recently picked up a 15" Macbook Pro and I LOVE it.

For the first week I didn't like it. I'm used to PC's where it takes me a week to tweek things to get them the way they work right. Since the Mac was already a better platform, no tweeking was needed...It just worked and I didn't get that at first.

My 1 piece of advice is to use the Time Machine. I was visiting 3XTom a few months back when his Macbook locked up hard. He went to the store, bought a new one, and ran Time Machine. Had everything back up and running the same day.

Mac has a don't ask don't tell policy.


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I use ICQ on a Mac and it works fine no need to use anything else

You will totally enjoy it! great move I bet you never go back to windows. Macs are a complete joy to use, with out headaches of any nature.

Ahh Thanks! I will be sure to look into that

go buy a pink shirt and some dockers

time machine rocks! Simply plug in an external hard drive, and it'll backup your shit automatically. And it reminds you every 10 days or so to do a backup :thumbsup

gnome.. ubuntu... free.

I never looked back when I switched to Mac, the only negative I could think of is the Mighty mouse ... avoid at all cost!!

I use the Microsoft Arc Mouse with pleasure
http://blog.fring.com/india/wp-conte.../arc-mouse.jpg

You are not the first to mention this. I have a microsoft mouse with my PC that I was planning on using as well. any probs with that?

The Arc mouse looks pretty cool though. I might have to grab one of those.

Well, I looking for an iMac 24', when I got some cash, I'll try it.

welcome to the revolution.

This kind of dumbass comment is the exact reason people call you fan bois...

meebo is far better and web based so you can access your contacts anywhere and have your chat history

time machine is definitely nice. When i got my apple i got a brand new external just to use for it, but for the first week i could never get it to run all the way, it would always lock up after about 10 minutes and say the disc was ejected... then i ran into this article on how to properly get set up, then it ran fast and perfect :) give it a read

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550

enjoy

Forgot to add something constructive..

You'll definitely need VMware or Parallels so you can run some windows only software.

I have a Macbook pro, I like it to a certain extent, it is amazing tho how everybody recommends it saying how smoothly it runs but as soon as you buy one and have trouble people come out of the woodwork saying "actually this sometimes crashes, for this you need to do this and that, for that go to the support forum...." :1orglaugh

because the invention of "point and click" or "cut and paste" was not revolutionary at all.

Xerox PARC invented the GUI. Apple borrowed some elements of it, and hired some PARC researchers.

Windows has "point and click" and "cut and paste" also :2 cents:

because windows doesn't have "point and click" or "cut and paste"?

Do I have to buy a Ford to join the industrial revolution?

All you need to know is you made the right choice...

You are correct sir. Jobs and Woz had the idea to actually put it into a personal computer, and thankfully Adobe put their support behind it. Gates used it in his software and now we have a choice a to what we use. The revolution is choice.

A friend just showed me DropBox. Have any of you heard of this service? seems like a pretty good way to share data between multiple computers or people?

I was using Mac once, and the mouse has only 1 button, yo. That's very trippy.

I can find no reason to run a mac over windows 7. Hardware is way worse, software is the same or not on the Mac.

i have windows 7 ordered for my desktop. i should get it sometime this month.

What windows only software????? Not that I'm saying it's not good to have, but come on - the only reason I've seen it "needed" was for testing different o/s platforms with new design/programming.

You can probably spend about 5 minutes cleaning up your startup and a few other things and save yourself the cost of a macbook.

Rule#1
http://www.yodawgyo.com/wp-content/u...-like-macs.jpg

Lol
Duke