just got a MBP!


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so I wasn't suppose to get my mac until Monday afternoon but to my surprise it came 8am today! after spending the last 8hrs downloading and installing everything, i have to say mac is 100x better than any pc i have ever had! i am soo happy =] i did install windows 7 via parallels desktop and currently backing up my entire mac via time machine and time capsule, =] any mac people have any other suggestions on getting even more out of my mac?

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so I wasn't suppose to get my mac until Monday afternoon but to my surprise it came 8am today! after spending the last 8hrs downloading and installing everything, i have to say mac is 100x better than any pc i have ever had! i am soo happy =] i did install windows 7 via parallels desktop and currently backing up my entire mac via time machine and time capsule, =] any mac people have any other suggestions on getting even more out of my mac?

congrats

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Welcome to the new world of users.

My Advice:

You are going to see a big fight against you in terms of Fanboys/Fangirls, don't let them get you down.

Take a look at the following sites for some "power user" tips from time to time:

http://www.macosxhints.com

http://www.macworld.com

Then, if you are looking for freeware:

http://www.freemacware.com

http://mac.majorgeeks.com (Mix of Free and Pay software)

I don't know how much memory you have installed, but the first thing after taking my iMac home and setting it up, I bought 4gb of ram and maxed mine out. I have never had any issues with it and also had plenty of room to run apps and software.

If you really like Win 7, Vista, XP, Linux, etc...You can Vmware it, Paralells it, or Virtualbox it (Virtualbox is free!), The nice advantage over bootcamp is that you can run those systems in a window in OSX at full speed for the most part. Also, each virutalization program lets you run each app in their native Gui on your Mac Desktop w/o the Win/Linux system showing it's desktop. That becomes quite a conversation piece when you have say Winamp running on your Mac and your Windows friends wonder how you did it. LOL

Bootcamp is good if you don't mind rebooting into Windows, and oftentimes, it runs faster than if you had installed in on a PC of the same specs. I know many will shoot me for saying that, but I have seen it put to practice. However, with my Mid-2007 iMac, I haven't seen too much of a speed difference.

Hope that helps!

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Congrats indeed. If you have a decent bit of RAM (4GB or so) then Parallels is probably a handy way to load your boot camp partition inside OS X. I only have 2GB here on my MacBook and found it very slow so I use Crossover now for the few times I need to run Windows apps. Much faster and avoids the overhead of running a second OS in the background.

MacUpdate is a great site to discover new apps. You get user reviews and similar/recommended alternatives too.

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any mac people have any other suggestions on getting even more out of my mac?

Congrats! Before I can think of some tips, what will you be using your mac for? Some general nice app you'd might like is LockDock, so you don't accidentally add/remove apps to/from the dock.

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