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Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

07/06/2008 12:16:29 PM · #1

I just bought myself a little graduation present :)

A new macbook, the nice black one :) (yay I've been wanting to switch to mac for two years now!), along with Microsoft Office and PHOTOSHOP CS3!!!!!!

All for just $2000!!!! I mean it's still a big purchase, but it aught to have cost more like $4000. The reason I'm loving Apple so much right now is that even though I've already graduated (in May), they still gave me the education discount. All I had to do was call and ask! Photoshop for just $300! And the guy was soooo nice and helpful. I think I'm ready to say I've officially been converted :)

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

07/06/2008 12:18:41 PM · #2

welcome to the dark side. Apple/Macs rule!!!!!!

I love my macbook its an awesome computer and I am sure you will love yours... congrats again

Message edited by author 2008-07-06 12:19:02.

ladyhawk22

Sony DSLR-A700

Sony SAL-50F14 Normal 50mm f/1.4 Autofocus Lens for the Sony

07/06/2008 01:02:06 PM · #3

Many congrats!!! You will have thousands of happy hours logged on your new Mac friend :-)

dacrazyrn

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

07/06/2008 06:13:09 PM · #4

AND YOU WENT AND PUT MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IT! FOR SHAME!!!

ben4345

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

07/06/2008 06:23:01 PM · #5

Originally posted by dacrazyrn:

AND YOU WENT AND PUT MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IT! FOR SHAME!!!

LMAO

lynnesite

Canon EOS-1D X

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

07/06/2008 06:24:16 PM · #6

Welcome to the bright side of life! Did you get AppleCare, as well?

Now, $10 for Macaroni (atomic bird.com), a disk utility like Disk Warrior, and some means to back up. I recommend OtherWorldComputing's Mercury Pro Elite firewire drives. Get a desktop unit, they're faster. And SuperDuper over Time Machine. (Macs don't use USB 2.0 like the PCs, way slow.)

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

07/06/2008 07:39:20 PM · #7

Originally posted by dacrazyrn:

AND YOU WENT AND PUT MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IT! FOR SHAME!!!

haha, I said that wrong, I got the Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc software on it, NOT the operating system. My friend who works for Apple advised me against getting the Apple equivalent. And yes I got Apple Care, very excited about that!

TLL061

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

07/06/2008 07:56:23 PM · #8

I just bought black mac book last week . it is awesome good luck

geoffb

07/06/2008 08:21:30 PM · #9

Originally posted by lynnesite:

I agree about buying SuperDuper for your backups (although I use it to backup my external drives, and Time Machine to keep the main drive [with the OS files on it] backed up).

Macs use USB 2.0 the same as PCs do, so I'm not sure what you mean there. Yes, Firewire is faster and better, but a PC can use that, too.

Edit: fix typo.

Message edited by author 2008-07-06 20:22:03.

Anti-Martyr

Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

07/06/2008 10:00:48 PM · #10

First thing I did when I got my Macbook Pro back in June was install Vista Ultimate on it. God OSX bothers me. The only thing I really truly enjoy about it is Command+Shift+4 to take a selective screenshot. All this "more intuitive than Windows" is a bunch of garbage.

Spork99

OM System OM-1

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

07/06/2008 11:41:46 PM · #11

Originally posted by Anti-Martyr:

Then why did you buy a MacBook Pro in the first place?

Maybe for you it's garbage, but I can safely say, I'll never go back to Winblows at home. I have to use it for work, and well, all I can say is that it's still garbage, but thank God we have a decent IT department.

MelonMusketeer

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4

07/06/2008 11:48:50 PM · #12

My early model G5 box is still pounding along just fine. I am a happy Mac user. It's easy to find any shot in 15K photos with IPhoto.
I recommend a .Mac account for anyone using mac.

07/06/2008 11:52:59 PM · #13

I love the Mac OS, that was my main motivation for switching. Also because I'm tired of dealing with viruses, and I'm moving to China in August and of all the people I know already there no one with a Mac has ever gotten a virus while everyone with a PC has gotten several. Plus, they're cuter :)

07/06/2008 11:53:58 PM · #14

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm still smiling ear to ear. I just wish I didn't have to wait for it to come in the mail!

plugsnpixels

07/07/2008 02:24:56 AM · #15

What a nice topic title! ;-)

Some thoughts:

If you're not too far along setting it up, partition the hard drive (large/small) and use the smaller partition for a stripped-down system plus utilities, so you can treat the main partition via a reboot. I use the free Carbon Copy Cloner for such tasks. You'll need an external FireWire hard drive to do this (ask for more details if you're interested).

Instead of buying Office, you could get NeoOffice for free. Supports .docx and even opens some docs Office 2008 won't (wps and such)!

Running Windows via Parallels is very easy and smooth, even on a laptop. Drag files back and forth between OS's as you work.

Anti-Martyr: I always thought computer users like you would make a great thesis topic!