You Guys are Such a Bad Influence!

[wPod]

macs are great for graphic designers, but they're good for looking at porn too.

that brings up a very good point! viruses. macs dont get viruses. and no pop up windows. no spyware, no annoying as hell adware either.

interesting your pals say apple is bad for only haveing core duo in their laptops. as i recall apple was one of the first with core duo! though i am a little dissapointed they havent quickly switched to core 2, im sure it will happen soon. and since leopard will be 64 bit native, im sure the entire mac line will be core 2 by the time that comes out. which is what, like the 3rd OS apple has put out since Vista was supposed to originally comeout! ha. at least apple doesnt follow someone elseses OS design (um, like windows following apple! heh)

 

[SMM]

My wife hated Macs when I first got mine. Every 5 minutes (seemingly) I was yelling down the hall, "Edie, come check THIS out!"

I would recommend two things to all new Mac owners; learn Spotlight and Help. Most people usually like to just dive right in. Discovery is great and has its' own rewards. However, you will find that OSX names things a little different and puts them in places you might not expect (coming from Windows). Learning WHERE to find the answer can prevent some frustration in the first week, or two.

There is also one more thing I will warn you about; you may reach a point where you will dread using Windows. I have a Dell 370 with 2 24" monitors. I develop VB applications on it. I recently got a tricked-out Dell 390 Core 2 Dual (5160) loaded (company gift). I am so excited, I have not even taken it out of the box.

 

[Hicks.]

Received my MacBook last Friday!!

Guess what I've been doing since then! I'm posting from it now (really like the low profile keyboard).

Apart from some teething problems trying to transfer data (still not resolved) I'm really enjoying the new OS.

I've bored everybody I know talking about my new purchase!

I still don't quite understand the way it files things. For instance, when you download a program off the internet to the desktop it comes as two files? I just drag the file that opens the actual application into the applications folder right? And delete the other?

Sorry for being a complete newb- but I'm trying

 

[AdeFowler]

Hi Hicks, glad it's going well.

When you download an application, it's normally in the form of a Disk Image with the extension .dmg . This self-extracts into a virtual disk on your desktop. You can now trash the .dmg file.

Follow the install instructions; sometimes they'll be an installer to double click, normally you just drag the applications icon to the Applications folder. (If the Applications folder's in your sidebar you can simply drag it on to that).

Eject the virtual disk. You're done.

HTH

 

[jTreu]

congrats, enjoy it.