Getting a MacBook!

[SkeffMSP21]

On a laptop, you're stuck with it, unless you're using it on a desk or something though.

It's just one of those many small things that Apple refuses to be flexible on, and it just doesn't make any sense. It's 2007, ship your notebooks with two mouse buttons. My 20 year old PC had two mouse buttons. I feel like sometimes Apple is different for the sake of being different, regardless of how impractical that difference may be.

I'm not sure about the older mac's, but the new mac laptops actually do have a "second button"... there's only one physical button, but if you want to 'Right-Click' on something, you just place two fingers on the track pad and click. It's actually very intuitive, as is the two finger scroll for the Mac.

 

[jersey_emt]

I'm not sure about the older mac's, but the new mac laptops actually do have a "second button"... there's only one physical button, but if you want to 'Right-Click' on something, you just place two fingers on the track pad and click. It's actually very intuitive, as is the two finger scroll for the Mac.

Yup that is correct.

 

[jersey_emt]

well the fanboyism will never stop, that's for sure. it seems that whatever OS a person finds best to fit his needs, is the one that everyone else should be using. I personally use linux at home because it's free and suits my needs, haven't had an issue with it so far, except when trying to install/run luxuries and/or beta/unstable software. If i've been running solely on linux, i'm sure i won't have a problem running osx. If i get a mac book pro, i can triple boot all 3 platforms if i wanted/needed to, and that's a big plus in my book.

You can run OS X on a PC now.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

[smo0f]

ya i saw that a few weeks ago, i think i'm gonna try it out this weekend

i wonder how stable that is, being that it doesn't recognize most of the hardware. i'm still gonna get a mac book. those things look deeeelish. i just hope that if i take it to barnes or starbucks no one comes up to me and starts talking about how great mac is blah blah blah. i heard that happens frequently

 

[Rainman]

Lucky you. I'm waiting until I can replace my 15" Titanium Powerbook with a MacBook Pro. Only another few months I hope. The rest of the Macs in the house are getting lonely. The single PC here at home is not sure what is going on...LOL.

R

 

[RallyeRedSi]

i've used macs a little bit, i liked it, love the tool bar on top and how it changed when you open a program, i tried runnin osx86 on my virtual machine but couldn't get it to work, and i don't feel like partioning and editing grub for to run it on my comp, the only linux is missing is more driver support but now linux developers are offering free driver development to companies, so hopefully it would get better.

i would love to get a mac book though, the only problem i have with mac is its high price on its hardware

 

[iLisa]

i've used macs a little bit, i liked it, love the tool bar on top and how it changed when you open a program, i tried runnin osx86 on my virtual machine but couldn't get it to work, and i don't feel like partioning and editing grub for to run it on my comp, the only linux is missing is more driver support but now linux developers are offering free driver development to companies, so hopefully it would get better.

i would love to get a mac book though, the only problem i have with mac is its high price on its hardware

by tool bar you mean the "dock"... if so, that can be also placed on the left and right side of the screen.. as well as at the bottom.

 

[smo0f]

i think i'm just gonna hold off until either leapord comes out and/or tax return/raise/bonus in april. i wanna get rims first

 

[Donas64]

by tool bar you mean the "dock"... if so, that can be also placed on the left and right side of the screen.. as well as at the bottom.

I downloaded Rocketdock for WinXP along with the Zune theme for XP today.

Rocketdock is just like the dock on OSX. I messed around with it for a bit and actually found it to be annoying. Just didn't do anything for me. I might give it another shot later but I like to keep a clean desktop. The zune theme rocks though.

 

[RallyeRedSi]

by tool bar you mean the "dock"... if so, that can be also placed on the left and right side of the screen.. as well as at the bottom.

no i meant the apple bar thats on top

 

[RallyeRedSi]

I downloaded Rocketdock for WinXP along with the Zune theme for XP today.

Rocketdock is just like the dock on OSX. I messed around with it for a bit and actually found it to be annoying. Just didn't do anything for me. I might give it another shot later but I like to keep a clean desktop. The zune theme rocks though.

is it bad that the first thing i noticed is that your using internet explorer and not using tabs

 

[Donas64]

is it bad that the first thing i noticed is that your using internet explorer and not using tabs

As in Tabbed browsing? I do use tabbed browsing with IE7. Just only have the one window open.

 

[Jackelope]

My company just bought me a new MacBook today, should be arriving next week.

Starting next week, I will be working from home 2 days a week. Because I will be moving back & forth between home & office, I asked for a laptop. They agreed it would be worth it to give me one.

They couldn't afford to get me a MacBook Pro, but it doesn't bother me any. In some ways I prefer it, as they are smaller and lighter. I'm going to be carrying this around a lot, so every ounce counts!

They are also paying for me to add on Verizon Wireless cellular broadband internet!

I'm getting the White MacBook -- 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, and SuperDrive (DVD burner).

I'm really excited....ever since Mac switched to Intel I wanted to have a Mac for myself.

Woot! (band2)

Got the same think, only in black - love it! picked up a bluetooth laser mouse while i was at it

 

[Kooldino]

why, are you chronically depressed

(the joke was that I was going to poison your food)

 

[Kooldino]

I was reading about qemu recently, but didn't get a chance to play with it. Is it better than Wine? How does it treat the differences between the windows and linux directory structures? Do all of the programs it emulates run inside of another window, or are they as free as any other app? How's the compatibility?

if i need to use a windows app, i use qemu and run windows inside linux. so no problems here

 

[Kooldino]

I'm not sure about the older mac's, but the new mac laptops actually do have a "second button"... there's only one physical button, but if you want to 'Right-Click' on something, you just place two fingers on the track pad and click. It's actually very intuitive, as is the two finger scroll for the Mac.

I know, but it's still not as nice as a second button. Again, it's like Apple is going out of their way to NOT put a second button on there, and for no good reason.

 

[Kooldino]

You can run OS X on a PC now.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

That's been around for awhile, but from what I told, guys have a lot of little glitches with it that make things "not quite right" yet.

 

[Donas64]

Originally Posted by jersey_emt
You can run OS X on a PC now.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Now why would anyone want to do that?

 

[smo0f]

(the joke was that I was going to poison your food)

(yes i turned it around to make it seem like you wanted me to poison yours)

 

[jersey_emt]

That's been around for awhile, but from what I told, guys have a lot of little glitches with it that make things "not quite right" yet.

It's mainly a hardware compatibility issue. Because Macs have only been offered with very few brands & models of hardware, there are not compatible drivers for a lot of hardware in the average PC. The fact that OS X is based on FreeBSD helps, as people have been able to get previously unsupported hardware to work. If you have mostly compatible hardware, things usually run pretty smoothly and it's not that hard to set up.

Definitely not a project for beginners though. But it is interesting and quite cool that it now can be done.