My Life on a Mac

[happywonton]

I am going to be transitioning on over to a Mac in a couple days and I'm pretty excited. I'm going to be running parallels in order to keep some programs up and "sharing" but other than that, I think I'm going to be way up into the OSX environment. I'll keep this post update after I receive it and I'll post reviews. Not trying to sell anything but it seems that most users on the forum are on a PC and for those that are curious about Macs, I'll help you out! ;)

One thing I fucked up on was getting a mouse that wasn't bluetooth. Way to go me.

[AYHJA]

May I ask why you're getting one..? You do graphics or something like that..?

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

i was wondering the same.

[zaphodz]

That's great. What mac did you buy?

I had a bit of a go on one lately and liked it. I'll probably go a Macbook Pro for my next laptop.

[happywonton]

I am trying to go into Graphic Design. After visiting two art schools, they both sucked hard. I saw Parsons in NYC and I loved it. So after a hard thought, I'm gonna take a year off and sharpen up on my computer skills, mainly in Adobe programs and possibly Aperture. I'm quite nervous but I heard the transition isn't that big of a deal.

I went ahead and got a Macbook Pro off the site and had the hard drive upgraded. I got the 2.2 because I didn't want to pay 500 more for basically a faster graphics card and a larger hard drive.

If all goes well, then maybe I'll move out of Starbucks and hopefully to an Apple store by the middle of Fall.

[AYHJA]

Good move then...

I think Aemeth bought a Mac, but he didn't need one, lol...What model are you looking at getting..?

[happywonton]

My 15 Inch Macbook Pro Specs:

- 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (4MB shared L2 cache)
- 15.4-inch (viewable) widescreen - 1440 x 900 pixels - Antiglare/Matte Version
- 2GB (two SO-DIMMs) - Planning on upgrading when I'm not broke.
- 160GB Serial ATA, 5400 rpm - Originally comes with 120GB on stock model
- 8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 SDRAM
- Built-in iSight camera, DVI video out with support for DVI video (up to 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display) plus VGA, S-video, and composite video output with adapters5
- Apple Remote; full-size, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor; scrolling trackpad
- Two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 400 port, one FireWire 800 port, one ExpressCard/34 slot
- Combined optical digital/headphone out, combined optical digital/audio line in, microphone, speakers
- Battery Life: Up to 5.5 hours

Retails at $1999 and +49 for the hard drive upgrade. With a student discount though, they knock off a few hundred AND i purchased it on my states' tax free weekend, so I got off saving alot of money.

This is going to be an investment so I went ahead and got shit to cover the entire thing from dust and scratches. I'm the type of dipshit that fucks everything up every once in a while so I'm gonna fool-proof my laptop so I can sell it one day. It was a debate over the new iMac though because those are pretty nice as well but I wanted something that I could carry around so I just went ahead and go a laptop.

Edit: I also "got" some programs for image editing so if you guys want a review on a product, just ask and I'll be the guinea pig. Friday is when it comes so I'm pretty excited.

The programs I have so far:
- Aperture
- Adobe Lightroom
- Whatever's on Adobe's Premium Creative Suite

[happywonton]

what's up guys! if you guys are interested in the following then i'll try to post a review by the end of this weekend!

- apple airport extreme (gigabit update)
- apple mighty mouse if im desperate enough for a mouse this weekend. i really might just get it.

any questions feel free to ask! i'm not a hardcore tech junkie but i'm smart enough to figure OS X!

[zaphodz]

Great system. You gonna use bootcamp and install some version of windows on it or are you gonna go solely mac programs?

[happywonton]

i'm going to use vmware's fusion software so i can use both operating systems at the same time. some of the programs i need for windows aren't going to work on my mac so it's just a backup. other than that i'm going to try and do everything on osx.