Topic: Macbook/Macbook Pro thread

[Claire.]

you disgust me claire

It's arrived, kids. Got a text before saying it's sitting waiting for me to come home, so I think it's only fair I have an early dart this afternoon, eh.

[¡Basta Ya!]

It's arrived, kids. Got a text before saying it's sitting waiting for me to come home, so I think it's only fair I have an early dart this afternoon, eh.

YOU DIDN'T BOOK THE DAY OFF!!!!!!

Your Mac will be annoyed. Macs need loving. Macs are the same as puppies. Would you leave a puppy in a box whilst you go to work...

I thought not.

[Claire.]

Heh, I was considering taking the day off thought it a little extreme though, half day isn't bad like.


Oh, oh, oh, AND it's a bank holiday weekend 

[BazC]

Must be too exciting waiting to get home to a new toy.

My head would explode waiting for a new PC/laptop to play with (almost did with the PS3... I rushed home to greet a massive box full of shredded paper- which was a bastard to clean up!) 

[Claire.]

earliest i can leave is half 3, bearing in mind the only important job i have on today comes back to me in time

[Matt S]

earliest i can leave is half 3, bearing in mind the only important job i have on today comes back to me in time

what is it you do out of interest?

[myrlas]

Mine is expected to arrive september 11. :S

[Claire.]

what is it you do out of interest?

webby things, it's very dull

oh, i'm using the mac btw, keys are laid out different which is gonna take some getting used to, and you have to press a bit harder. I shall be making lots of typos for a while

Was up and running inside 15mins like, out the box and on, hasn't been on charge yet.

[¡Basta Ya!]

Porno sites.

Got the bloody think yet

[Claire.]

Got the bloody think yet

Yes! Now I just have to find all me usual things like Gmail thingy and er, MSN and other shit and put some music and stuff on it.

It's very beautiful. The keyboard lights thing is lovely.

edit.

Does safari not do tabs? or am i going mad?

[¡Basta Ya!]

Gmail thingy

http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_mac.html

MSN

MSN is shite, so use AdiumX - you can have msn, aol, actually nearly anything (and is even easier to set-up and amazingly configurable.

Also, check out these posts on my blog for applications that you might need.


Part 2

Part 1

You'll also want this (the top two links 2007 blah blah's) - for above applications

and before you do any of the above (good time to tell you, at the end) you'll want to install this to stop the apps phoning home.

*breath*

[¡Basta Ya!]

Does safari not do tabs? or am i going mad?

Yeah, you need to turn them on. Hold the apple button (cmd) and comma (remember this, this is how you get into the preferences of nearly every application on mac) - then go to tabs and check the first couple of boxes

[Claire.]

Thanks

These things are a piece of piss. A few things are awkward still, but I'll get there.

[¡Basta Ya!]

A few things are awkward still, but I'll get there.

Yeah, all comes with familiarity. The more you use it the more simple the OS becomes, when I say simple I mean efficient

[BazC]

Went to PC World earlier to check out the Macbook, and my dad also wanted to check out what Vista was like seeing as we're ordering a new PC tomorrow.

Liked the Macbook- already seemed as though I was familiar with it (I'd already used the old imacs at school a few years back). Really liked the keyboard, and the whole thing looked slick.

Checked out Expose and compared it to Aero. Aero looks much cooler, but Expose seems to be more practical. Can't wait to get the PC to play about with Vista, or the Macbook (if I do get it) to play about with OSX.

Got a good deal with Dell, and my dad also blagged a free 3 Year's warranty out of them for the PC. I might look around tomorrow to see if I can get a decent Dell laptop, and see if they'll throw the 3 year's warranty in as well (which is a big reason I'm leaning towards the Macbook). If I can get a 2GB Dell, with decent processor and HD, with that warranty extended for the £600 mark then I'll probably end up getting that... if Apple do indeed start the free ipod/printer thing next week though...

Really starting to get confusing again.

[¡Basta Ya!]

Checked out Expose and compared it to Aero. Aero looks much cooler, but Expose seems to be more practical.

You've got to be shitting me, Expose is at least 1 million times cooler imo. You're right though, it's way more practical and far more flexible (you can do other things with it besides pressing f9).

Aero is a gimmick, Expose is an efficiency tool.  I'd sooner use the taskbar than aero, personally.

If you argue with my on expose v aero, not only am I going to kick you in your nuts but I'm also going to make a video of it's coolness. 

[BazC]

You're right... I'd (normally) use the taskbar over aero (instead of clicking the aero button, then cycling through to your app... it's easier to just click on your app! I said as much to my dad). But, for those with loads and loads of apps open, I can see why Aero could work better than the taskbar. Anyway- for the normal Home user, it's a gimmick. I just thought it looked cooler because of the see through window/cycley thing- it was the first time I was seeing it!

Expose though- way more practical than Aero, and better than the taskbar because you can see everything.

So 

[¡Basta Ya!]

Expose though- way more practical than Aero, and better than the taskbar because you can see everything.

So 

Correct. I'm still going to make a cool video about it htough (even if nobody watches, I just need to for my own mental well being). Just not tonight - cos I'm tired.

[BazC]

I'll watch it 

I'd rather have something like Expose than Aero though... even though I think Aero looks cooler- that's all it really does- look cool. Expose, whilst still cool, has more use!

[iSmiff]

OS have no use other than to launch applications you twonks.

oooh its pretty, oooh its more efficient, load of my arse

if it takes a double click to launch my application i could give a fuck

[BazC]

OS have no use other than to launch applications you twonks.

oooh its pretty, oooh its more efficient, load of my arse

if it takes a double click to launch my application i could give a fuck

If I'd asked for your opinion I could give a fuck 

[iSmiff]

how very dare you

[bradigor]

I love you smiffy baby

[iSmiff]

so this new service pack that apple will be gouging money out of you lot for soon


any good, whats hugely improved, i hope the security gets an upgrade to vista levels

[¡Basta Ya!]

oooh its more efficient, load of my arse

Try having 30 photoshop windows open, 10 finder windows and 4/5 applications...

Not easy to find what you're doing via the taskbar.

[BazC]

how very dare you

Don't be too offended, I still take notice of your posts in the non-Mac threads 

[wacko]

What's aero do then? Haven't played with Vista yet and don't intend to. "Never used it" shall henceforth be my excuse for never fixing anyone's PC ever again.

[¡Basta Ya!]

What's aero do then? Haven't played with Vista yet and don't intend to. "Never used it" shall henceforth be my excuse for never fixing anyone's PC ever again.

It gets all the windows you have open, puts them behind one another and lets you scroll through them one by one.

[iSmiff]

Try having 30 photoshop windows open, 10 finder windows and 4/5 applications...

Not easy to find what you're doing via the taskbar.

so for 99.9% of people its no use what so ever is what you are saying

[¡Basta Ya!]

so for 99.9% of people its no use what so ever is what you are saying

No, not at all. If you have one window open at a time, then it's not going to be much use but for about 95% of people that have much more than that, then it's definitely a time saver.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

webby things, it's very dull

oh, i'm using the mac btw, keys are laid out different which is gonna take some getting used to, and you have to press a bit harder. I shall be making lots of typos for a while

Was up and running inside 15mins like, out the box and on, hasn't been on charge yet.

To be fair I've had four windows Laptops and they are all 'running inside 15 minutes out of the box'

I'd imagine it would be fairly rare for any laptop not to be pretty much immediately sorted out

[Andy @ Allerton!]

No, not at all. If you have one window open at a time, then it's not going to be much use but for about 95% of people that have much more than that, then it's definitely a time saver.

Have you ever considered taking training to become more efficiant at what you do - surely there is no need to have '30 photoshop windows open' (Assuming that photoshop isn't crap of course)

[¡Basta Ya!]

Have you ever considered taking training to become more efficiant at what you do - surely there is no need to have '30 photoshop windows open' (Assuming that photoshop isn't crap of course)

No Andy, I've got an amazingly efficient workflow that has taken a very long time to refine, thanks though. And yeah, I regularly have a load of windows open, not often 30 in photoshop but often 10 photoshop, dreamweaver, transmit, mail, safari, firefox, camino and others.

Also, your assumption is right, photoshop isn't crap. It's brilliant.

[¡Basta Ya!]

keys are laid out different which is gonna take some getting used to

On windows where you use Ctrl + letter for shortcuts, you use the apple button + key

just incase you didn't know

[iSmiff]

No, not at all. If you have one window open at a time, then it's not going to be much use but for about 95% of people that have much more than that, then it's definitely a time saver.

i might have five windows open at a time tops, i doubt very much if more than .1% of people ever have more than that open, unless they've logged into a porn site and its opening new windows for them

having 30+ windows open at a time is ridiculous and not needed if you had a decent workflow, i know real PROPER professional designers, i showed them this

they're comment "fucking amateur"

[¡Basta Ya!]

having 30+ windows open at a time is ridiculous and not needed if you had a decent workflow, i know real PROPER professional designers, i showed them this

they're comment "fucking amateur"

Good for them, homosexual designers. Designers don't have opinions that count.

[Claire.]

To be fair I've had four windows Laptops and they are all 'running inside 15 minutes out of the box'

I'd imagine it would be fairly rare for any laptop not to be pretty much immediately sorted out

Most new laptops you have to burn backup DVDs and fiddle about with things for quite a while. The initial set up on my Compaq laptop, from getting it out the box and then for me to be able to do something I actually wanted to do, was about an hour and a half minimum, but that was near 5 years ago.

Had to wait for XP to 'install' or whatever the fuck it was doing.

This, I got it out the box, opened up it's lid, pressed the power button (didn't expect it to come on!) and then it just asked me a few questions, sorted out languages/log in, it connected up to the network and then I was away. Updated itself to the latest versions of everything, too, I seem to have iLife '08, although I'll probably never use it.

On windows where you use Ctrl + letter for shortcuts, you use the apple button + key

just incase you didn't know

I knew

Can't seem to stop myself trying to press ctrl, though.

[¡Basta Ya!]

This, I got it out the box, opened up it's lid, pressed the power button (didn't expect it to come on!)

Boooooonnnnggggggggg

[iSmiff]

Good for them, homosexual designers. Designers don't have opinions that count.

now now prongs, just becuase they've showed you up as an "enthusiast" and not a professional theres no need to get abusive towards them

hey if it works for you and means you need dual or quad core machine where they only need an old powerpc based mac then go for it

[¡Basta Ya!]

You're wrong, I'm not at all enthusiastic.