My first mac!!

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Well, thanks to a mate of mine agent006 (Anthony)

I am now making my first post with a mac!

It's a very odd experience being out of my 'comfort zone'

but all seems to be cool.

For you tech people out there its (although Anthony might correct me)

Its a dual G4, 1gig ram mirror door

just sorting out photo editing software etc!
 
Iv been looking into a mac myself over the last few weeks and after visiting the exeter apple store, think the macbook pro is in order in the next week. Just gotta find the cash lol:thinking:
 
I have had my 24" iMac for 2 weeks now and loving it, but it is taking some getting used to, still need to sort a MS money equivalent and sync to my phone/pda etc.
 
Mac's rule! Can't believe I took so long to dump all my PC's and switch to them :)
 
Remember the new macs can run xp and vista, so you have the best of both worlds with one mac ;)
 
RogDen31 said:
I have had my 24" iMac for 2 weeks now and loving it, but it is taking some getting used to, still need to sort a MS money equivalent and sync to my phone/pda etc.
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have you tried this to sync your phone:
missing sync
 
Agent006 said:
Remember the new macs can run xp and vista, so you have the best of both worlds with one mac ;)
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I have the oposite way around

I run darwin x86 on my pc and I have a dual boot pc with Vista Business and Mac OSX Leopard.

Its great cause I get all the functionality of a Mac without the price tag, and I can still use windows on a seperate partition.

I am running a Intel Dual Core 2 1.86 GHZ with 2Gig Ram, ATI Radeon 2900 HD Pro Dual DVI graphics card with 2 17inch dell TFT's

Its great for doing photoshop as you can have the original and edited image open together.

Mike

Yes I am an IT Geeeek
 
dj_myk said:
I have the oposite way around

I run darwin x86 on my pc and I have a dual boot pc with Vista Business and Mac OSX Leopard.

Its great cause I get all the functionality of a Mac without the price tag, and I can still use windows on a seperate partition.

I am running a Intel Dual Core 2 1.86 GHZ with 2Gig Ram, ATI Radeon 2900 HD Pro Dual DVI graphics card with 2 17inch dell TFT's

Its great for doing photoshop as you can have the original and edited image open together.

Mike

Yes I am an IT Geeeek
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I am not knocking your way. Just one question if i may, how easy was it to install. It is possible to install windows without any modification, and the option key on startup will display all the available os partitions that are bootable.
 
Agent006 said:
I am not knocking your way. Just one question if i may, how easy was it to install. It is possible to install windows without any modification, and the option key on startup will display all the available os partitions that are bootable.
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I think you've misunderstood what dj_myk has done...darwin x86 is a way to install MacOSX onto any PC. Have a look at this link:
x86
 
Great move Gaz ... :thumbs:


My Air ... :love: ... arrived a couple of weeks ago and it is far, far better than I had ever anticipated ... :clap:


The system itself is just so brilliant and impressively intuitive that I have had absolutely no issues with it whatsoever ... :D


It is just so damn sweet it defies explanation ... ;)



The rest of my PC hardware will now be hitting the road during the course of the year ... :suspect:



:p
 
kfridge said:
I think you've misunderstood what dj_myk has done...darwin x86 is a way to install MacOSX onto any PC. Have a look at this link:
x86
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I have heard of this method, i was just wondering how easy it was to do for a novice. With the dual boot option.
I will admit i prefer the real mcoy, it looks nicer ;)
 
Agent006 said:
I have heard of this method, i was just wondering how easy it was to do for a novice. With the dual boot option.
I will admit i prefer the real mcoy, it looks nicer ;)
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Its a piece of cake.

I downloaded a file that was 8 Gig, and basically you just edit a bat file for the loaction of where you want to install the OS to.

I set up a seperate partition on my second hard disk (or you can create a partition on your main disk) of minimum 10 gig.

You then edit the bat file to point to the hard disk and then the partition. for example 0,1 which would install on the primary hard disk on partition 2.

It takes around 30-40 mins to complete, then you reboot and then your into osx. However I found that before you restart you run a boot creater you can set a dual boot between vista and osx.

if you have an XP machine you can dual boot even easier as you just edit the boot.ini

That website that the guy posted above for the OSx86 website has all the guides and answers. Its great

Edited it works well, however running a hackintosh (as its called) can be a bit tempremental as some hardware is not supported

recently my machine died and I purpose built my new pc around the Leopard osx86 hardware components. It runs faster than my windows pc does, and it can multitask better.

I have CS2 and Elements 6 and lightroom all installed and working. Also office 2008 which has its own version of outlook and also Word, Excel and the like.

If I am dooing everyday surfing or wanting to edit photo's I boot into my mac, and if I want to use skype, download or edit my website I use vista.

the best of both worlds for just one sweet price

Mike
 
Agent006 said:
I have heard of this method, i was just wondering how easy it was to do for a novice. With the dual boot option.
I will admit i prefer the real mcoy, it looks nicer ;)
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ahh, right! for a novice it might be a little difficult, but if you can dual boot a windows system you should be able to do this, there are loads of guides around (the link in my last post has lots). I would recommend reading as much as you can before you start though to save a bit of frustration!
 
Venomator said:
Great move Gaz ... :thumbs:


My Air ... :love: ... arrived a couple of weeks ago and it is far, far better than I had ever anticipated ... :clap:


The system itself is just so brilliant and impressively intuitive that I have had absolutely no issues with it whatsoever ... :D


It is just so damn sweet it defies explanation ... ;)



The rest of my PC hardware will now be hitting the road during the course of the year ... :suspect:



:p
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I want one, but have to wait until i have paid for my camera stuff first lol ;)
 
Venomator said:
Great move Gaz ... :thumbs:



The rest of my PC hardware will now be hitting the road during the course of the year ... :suspect:



:p
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Well - you know my address!!

:lol:
 
Agent006 said:
Remember the new macs can run xp and vista, so you have the best of both worlds with one mac ;)
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Which is what I'm doing, I use Macs for working on, but for some daft reason they can't see the PC server network to get on the internet.

So I got my company to purchase a copy of Desktop Parallels and now I'm using PC explorer to type this just now. Works very well. PC programs and windows in a native OSX environment.
 
Congrats on the mac,
If you have the software to do all you want on the mac then dont bother having windows on.
The whole idea of the macs is to speed things up as windows is so so hungry for space and memory.
Im on my asus Eeepc,
That was a pressie and only used for the surfing as so easy to pic up and be with the family and not in another room on the pc.
 
That X86 stuff is highly illegal...

Anyway, well done on getting yourself a Mac :) I think you'll find the whole experience so much less stressful than owning a Windows computer!
 
Gaz81 - Congrats on the move to Mac. I did the same myself a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't be happier :D

RogDen31 - I had the same problem with my personal finance software. I looked and looked but couldn't find a mac equivalent I liked the look of. In the end I installed VM Ware Fusion. It's absolutely brilliant - it enables you to run Windows on a Mac without rebooting :) So now I can run my windows apps on my mac as if they were native mac programs :thumbs:
 
I use Jumsoft Money for my finances. It's really basic, but for what i wanted it's ideal :)

iBank has lots of features but for me i just wanted something simple and quick!
ChaChing is cool, but unfinished :(
 
i am tempted by a mini mac, as they have come down a lot in price. There are few on ebay that are under £250

If you are looking for mac hardware there is an offical Mac UK repair center that offer refurbish macs at half the price of the shops

They are called cancom, and have a website but can be found on ebay as well

I bought a refurbish mac book for my g/f and it was in great condition. It even told you the reason it was refurbished and came with 6 months warrenty however you could purchase the full year for a few quid more.

when it arrived it was in the original box, with all the packaging un touched, sealed in a bag with a cancom sticker.

her actual book required a new motherboard and the new one was covered by 6 months warrenty. I added a further 512mb ram to her notebook to boost it to 1gig and swapped out the 30 gig drive with a 40 I had kicking about.

all in all great condition, great customer service and very very fast delivery.

If your on a budget and want a genuine mac, look at them.

Mike
 
dj_myk said:
I have the oposite way around

I run darwin x86 on my pc and I have a dual boot pc with Vista Business and Mac OSX Leopard.

Its great cause I get all the functionality of a Mac without the price tag, and I can still use windows on a seperate partition.

I am running a Intel Dual Core 2 1.86 GHZ with 2Gig Ram, ATI Radeon 2900 HD Pro Dual DVI graphics card with 2 17inch dell TFT's

Its great for doing photoshop as you can have the original and edited image open together.

Mike

Yes I am an IT Geeeek
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if you have dual monitors, have you tried using Aperture? It has some real neat features for dual monitor users that I wish lightroom would have, like being able to use one for a full screen preview and the other for all the editing tools.
 
No I have not tried it but I will have a wee search for it when I go home.

Mike
 
ohhh yeah

things taken apart.. my kinda site

mike
 
Welcome to the world of the wise!!!
 
I've left it on for the past couple of days and there has been no strange reboots or anything like that!

The quailty of the display now i'm using a decent video card and DVI compared to using normal VGA on my dell laptop is ace.

I forgot just how good my SGI 1600SW monitor is, 17" @ 1600x1024 looks very nice and sharpe!

To ad a lil more its the dual 1.4gh model... another 1gig of ram would be nice!

(I have 2 spare 512mb PC4200 SODIMMS if anyone would like to trade for 2 x 512mb PC2700)
 
Venomator said:

My Air ... :love: ... arrived a couple of weeks ago and it is far, far better than I had ever anticipated ... :clap:
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I guess you quite like it, then! ;) :lol:

How big is the screen?

I might be in the market for a Mac of some description later this year, either a MacBook Pro or this one. Know nothing about computers, but have done lots of reading of this and other forums and have got the general drift .... :)

Thanks.

Cathy
 
think my move to apple is imminent - after uming and ah-ing for ages. can't decide between set ups though...15" MBP plus 24" screen or mbp and imac...or even a 17" mbp somewhere in there! with all the image editing I do i'm wondering about photoshop scratch discs and the like as well...
 
What is a photoshop scratch disk, please?

Cathy
 
I have not regretted my move to mac. I bought my first one a couple of years ago, a mac mini (from cancom refurbished as mentioned above). I now have a macbook pro and love it.

Welcome to the club!
 
CJR said:
What is a photoshop scratch disk, please?

Cathy
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the photoshop scratch disk is - in a sense - 'ram on the hard drive', basically a place photoshop uses, if I'm getting my thinking right, as a temporary memory storage location alongside the ram and as an over-flow when ram capacity is exceeded. It is perhaps analogous to the windows page-file...a temporary space on a hard drive used and when for memory purposes.
Having built and set up my own PC I've got this on a separate disc to the one PS is installed on...so just wondering about it on a Mac.
 
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