Buying a Laptop...possibly switching to Mac...your tips welcome
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- Douglas M Schlenker
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We have Mac & Linux machines at our office. Both are quite good. Linux these days is pretty similar to OS X, but a little harder to get the AAA software packages like Adobe products. That said, there are really good free alternatives out there now such as The Gimp.
We migrated away from Windows when Vista came out and we have been extremely happy with the decision to do so.
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- Bob Ateah
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Fyi, you can still purchase a Windows pc with XP as the OS.
Whatever direction that you choose, Mac or Windows, good luck! - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Gabriele
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Nevermore buy a PC if you've begun to think with a Mac mindset !
Welcome to the world of doing things as in the real life, where machines think like you do, and not where you're compelled to learn how a machine thinks like in the damned Windows enviroment!!!
Sorry for my "verve", but having been a Mac user since 1984, and being compelled to use a PC for some matters here and there, I still can't understand how people can waste his own life loosing time on PC's problems.
Only thing to be aware about, 80% of games are still on PC plattform. But it's changing...
As far as your software and budget problems are concerned, remember that you can partition your Mac hard disk, and create a partition where to install Windows (XP, Vista is for crazies). Bettermore, you can buy a firewire external HD to format in PC format and where to install Windows. You can bootstrap with such a partition or hard-disk any time you want, simply pressing a key when you switch on the Mac.
And you can also use Windows programs inside a Windows task under OS X !!!
See here for better informations: www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html
And when a little more budget will be in your pocket, hopefully few monthes, you could finally buy your desired sw for Mac and forget your Windows coffee-machine, I mean you could then erase the PC formatted partition/hard-disk, if any, and reformat it as OS X.
Think about, mate, think about. - Last Edit: 16 years 10 months ago by Gabriele.
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- damo
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just want to go against the general feeling
i went mac for a while, admittedly a while ago now but i went back to pc
i opted for a dell xps m1710 with 2gb and all the other xps nice things .. - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- James Spencer
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If you are going for the Macbook, you need to do the following
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > TrackPad
And attached are my settings, see the 2 finger right click, a must. - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Dainis Michel
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Well, with software, the estimate for a MacBook is 1800+ Euro. That's about $2650. I wonder if it would be cheaper for me to fly to the US and purchase there...
I really like the interface, the OS seems spectacular (especially the included software), and the laptop is just so small and slick.
I'm basically sold, folks. What can I say? I'd have to finance a portion of the purchase price, which I haven't had a lot of luck with in the past, because I've been mostly self-employed since about '97 and many of the financing deals here require "fixed employment." (I live in Vienna, Austria)
Thanks for the trackpad tip. The store manager showed me the two finger scroll thing, which is very cool. What I don't like is the two finger + rt click to get the rt click to work.
Cheers!
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- James Spencer
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Having 1 finger tab for left click and 2 finger tab for right click is great. Trust me, it grows on you
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Yves
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James S! wrote:
Having 1 finger tab for left click and 2 finger tab for right click is great. Trust me, it grows on you
You have then 2 fingers left for holding the muffin
- Yves
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- Gabriele
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Dainis Michel wrote:
Well, with software, the estimate for a MacBook is 1800+ Euro. That's about $2650. I wonder if it would be cheaper for me to fly to the US and purchase there...
Remember that european Apple Stores first prices are VAT included, while US ones are VAT excluded. Did you notice that?
So not so much budget difference left to finance you flying in US and back... unless you want to fly in the luggage compartment!!!
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- Dainis Michel
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Hmm...the luggage compartment...not sure if a "freeze-dried" me can continue as an e-trepreneur!
Also, if the thumb is considered finger 1, and the pinky finger 5, we've got finger 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, from left to rt. on the rt. hand. OK?
Now, I'm used to touch-pad mouse movement with my index finger (finger 2), that way, left clicking is "move finger 2 around, move move, move, and poof, tap the left button with the thumb." I can double click with the thumb, etc. If I have to use two fingers to do a rt-click, if I'm using fingers 2&3 on the touchpad (which I would naturally do for scrolling), then I have to extend my thumb all the way under about fingers 4-5 just to reach the rt mouse button (or the rt side of the dual-purpose single Mac button).
That's quite a stretch.
So what do you do to rt-click?
Do you twist your hand?
Do you touch the pad with fingers 1&2 and click with your pinky?
Best,
Dainis -
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your instruction guide to sustainable bliss...now!
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