Im all Mac

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Well guys ive finally done it, got a Mac yersterday. I decided to go for the 24" I-Mac and how ace is it. I just love it, today on the way home from work I picked up a D-Link wireless Modem/Reuter and installed it on the PC downstairs. Its wicked fast up here. Its has just done 49mb in about 3 minutes.

Im now looking for software thats free. Or software that can help with my mac.

 
Lucky guy :( I want one!

There is supposedly a rumor that Mac is going to debut a 15.4 inch Mac Book, not pro. If that is true, I will be getting that then fasho. I'll sell this machine I built to my brother and buy the Mac, run boot camp so I can at least play video games on it when ever :)
 
You lucky son of one :D.

Same, Matt. I'm thinking about getting one before I go into 6th form college, although I think I'll get a 13 inch because it's easier to carry around than a full 15 (if they ever do release it..). I can always go buy a cinema display if I want a larger screen at home.
 
If there is one thing constant that will be in my life from now on, its that I will always own a Mac. I will never go back to PC for anything but gaming, if Apple ever decide to make a gaming rig then I will get one of those, but for my day to day things especially photography, music and web I will not go back.
 
£10 says that the next time you turn on your PC, you'll wonder why you didn't change sooner. Or you'll scream. Usually one of those.
 
I have to use Windows to do my math homework for college and now by habit, I go to the top left to exit an application instead of just clicking the X button. :lol:
 
Congrats! Welcome to the dark side. ;)

Anyway, for software you need, you can always go to MacUpdate or VersionTracker and search for whatever you need. Or you can ask us. All in all, if you haven't received Sage's magical PM yet, get these things:

The Unarchiver - It virtually opens every filetype, it's as fast as the Mac's built-in .ZIP opener, etc etc. It's a musthave.

Quicksilver - It's in essence a lightspeed version of Spotlight and a super fast application launcher. Plus you can do so many other things with it with its Plug-in capability it'd fill a novel.

PithHelmet - Not really a program, per se, but it's a built-in Adblock for Safari. And it blocks practically everything. Of course, the adblock for Firefox is better, but only very slightly.

Adium - It just hit version 1.0, and IMO it's the best IM chat app on any platform ever. It has support for every major IM network, and support for minor networks you probably haven't heard of. Plus its customization puts Firefox to shame.

uApp - When you drag a program you want to get rid of to its window, it not only trashes the program but it also removes any hidden files it'd have put on your system (preference files, cache files, etc). And it's free, so you don't have to pay $13 for AppZapper for the same function and a useless sound effect.

MediaFork - It rips any DVD you might have to an .MP4 file, and it has many options on how you want to rip it. There is also MacTheRipper, and it rips the entire DVD into a VIDEO_TS folder to play in DVD Player. It'll act like a real DVD, special features and all. But remember, don't use this for the wrong purposes. ;)

Camino 1.1 Alpha - It's Mozilla's Mac project. It has Firefox's rendering engine, but it also has integrated support for all the special Mac features (Services, Keychain, OS Dictionary, etc) since it's a Cocoa browser. Now, I'd try finding CamiTools - it's an all-in-one browser add-on that greatly, and I mean greatly, enhances Camino with its features. However, the CamiTools project has been halted so it'll be tricky to find a copy (and ignore the warnings that CT doesn't work with the 1.1 alpha, it does). The browser is super fast, and super lean (it doesn't have freak memory leaks all the time so it doesn't use 300MB of RAM). All in all, Camino is a good alternative browser if you don't like Safari or if you don't like the clunkiness of Firefox.
 
Ah, the iMac. It's beautiful, isn't it?

Duck pretty much covered the basics app-wise, but just let us know what you else you need and I'm sure we can help you out. 👍

PLmatt91
Lucky guy :( I want one!

There is supposedly a rumor that Mac is going to debut a 15.4 inch Mac Book, not pro. If that is true, I will be getting that then fasho. I'll sell this machine I built to my brother and buy the Mac, run boot camp so I can at least play video games on it when ever :)
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Err, if you're not going to get the Pro, then you're not going to be gaming much. I'm with Jondot, I'll be getting the 13" for portability reasons. There are also rumors of a sub-notebook, but I that might be too extreme for me. I think the MacBook will do me fine.
 
MacBook is just too small for me and I'd want something that'll be able to boot camp and play at least Counter Strike Source on it at the full res, maybe high settings.
 
PLmatt91
MacBook is just too small for me and I'd want something that'll be able to boot camp and play at least Counter Strike Source on it at the full res, maybe high settings.
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On an Intel GMA 950? Good luck.
 
Thanks guys, I will look at Camino, the thing is I love No script plugin for FF.

And yes I've had my PM from Sage (cheers Sage).

I love the Right click option for mac as never could get used to the alt click of older versions of OSX. ive had loads of fun so far.
 
Good job, Sprite. I'm probably next on the list for a mac-over.
 
Yeah, that's about all they have going for 'em. :lol:

Actually, I'll be going for an Apple when it comes time for me to get a laptop. Laptops aren't gaming machines anyway.

Congrats on the purchase, though, Sprite. A friend of mine just made the switch himself, after his PC was fried by malware.
 
Wolfe
Yeah, that's about all they have going for 'em. :lol:

Actually, I'll be going for an Apple when it comes time for me to get a laptop. Laptops aren't gaming machines anyway.

Congrats on the purchase, though, Sprite. A friend of mine just made the switch himself, after his PC was fried by malware.
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Just out of curiosity, why are you/why did your friend decide to switch? The reason I ask is, prior to the Intel-switch and recent 'Get a Mac' campaign, only one other person in my group of friends had one. Now, many of my friends are getting MacBooks for college. Many of their friends and siblings are also buying Macs. These are people that would have never even considered buying a Mac a couple years ago.

I'm wondering whether it was the Intel-switch or the recent 'Get a Mac' campaign that are convincing people to switch. Regardless, I see this as a good thing - not only for Apple and their costumers - but for everyone. Hopefully we'll see better products from hardware manufacturers and better operating systems from Windows and the various Linux distributions as a result of this increased competition.

appie17
Can someone please tell me why a Mac is good?
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Have you ever used OS X. :sly:
 
Sprite
If there is one thing constant that will be in my life from now on, its that I will always own a Mac. I will never go back to PC for anything but gaming, if Apple ever decide to make a gaming rig then I will get one of those...
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Get yourself Parallels and you've got yourself a Mac and a perfectly usable gaming PC too 👍
 
With Parellels, you are running Windows inside of OSX. With Boot Camp, you have a true dual boot system and you can choose which OS to use when your first boot the computer up.
 
Integra Type R
With Parellels, you are running Windows inside of OSX. With Boot Camp, you have a true dual boot system and you can choose which OS to use when your first boot the computer up.
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Yes, i know, but does boot camp it offer any real advantage over parallels, especially for gaming?

- from what i've read Apple were originally going to offer the 'full version' of boot camp with the ability to 'switch' between operating systems rather than just booting from one or the other - but since the parallels software was so good (and cheap) they are now just going to leave it pretty much as the beta version is now, they are so happy with the way parallels does it they don't think they could do any better.
 
Running a game inside a full operating system, while running that OS inside another OS at the same time has to have some side affect, dont'cha think? I sometimes get low FPS running World of Warcraft in windowed mode on my Mac book Pro just inside of OSX. I've got an ATi x1600xt 256mb version, and the Mac Books have Intel GMA950...
Also, Boot Camp is free and will be included in Leopard when it comes out. :D
 
PLmatt91
When Leopard does drop out though... Can you still dual boot with XP? or Will it need to be a version of Vista? :(
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You should still be able to boot with XP.

And you'll also need to fork out $30 when Boot Camp comes out of beta should you want to run it on 10.4.
 

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