Toshiba Portègè
The Toshiba Portégé just came in from CDW. This thing is Super light! It weighed in at 2.4 LBS. See images for more info. I’ll post more about this cool laptop later in. CDW page here.
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sbostedor
OS X Refreshing Feature
This is really nice for someone coming from the world of Microsoft Installer Hell. With MSI, you can only launch a single setup at a time and if you violate that, the second setup closes with an error. In OS X, the second setup simply sits and waits for the first one to complete and then continues automagically. I like! -
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Latest Leopard Beta
So, I finally got some time to install the latest Leopard beta. I’m very impressed although I still need to spend more time playing with features.
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Jamie A MacDonald
And where did this little angel come from?
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Jamie A MacDonald
Is this 9a527?
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sbostedor
Mac Progress
So, it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve jumped in head first into the world of Apple. I’ve had some really good experiences and I’ve had some issues. Right now, my biggest issue is that the battery in my MacBook Pro is dead – done.
The thing has never really held much of a charge since it was given to me but it’s so bad, now, that I can’t even unplug it from the outlet without it just going dead immediately. I ordered one through CDW and it should be waiting for me when I arrive back to the office tomorrow.
Other than this, I have adapted pretty well to the MAC world. I don’t know if that’s a testament to the Apple’s ease of use or my ability to adapt to any tech environment as long as I give it a fair chance. I took this plunge into Linux and wasn’t as successful so I guess that the former holds greater influence than the latter.
I guess that if I did this a few years ago, I would have been justified in my macaphobia. It wasn’t until recently that Apple switched to Intel and made it possible to run both OS x and Windows on the same box. There were also far fewer games and cool apps back than compared to what is out now.
I’ve learned a lot and eaten a lot of crow and I’ve been pleaslty surprised many times along the way.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … Microsoft had better take warning,
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Jamie A MacDonald
I think your adaptation is attributed to both reasons you list. Obviously your extensive computer knowledge is an asset, but that aside, the Mac OS is VERY intuitive. I have had a few people come over and “play” with the Mac and they all were able to do everything they could on a pc with no problems. I then had them “try” and do some other things like install an app (to which the response was always “is that all I havd to do?”) I’ve also had them uninstall said apps to which they responded, ” that’s it?!!?” People are often impressed by the “little things”. Like dragging an item into a folder that is burried. Just click and hold, and hover over then folder, let it open, then hover over then next one down etc… Peope are always floored by Expose` as well. No more alt+tab, just move the mouse to the upper left corner and BAM! And the way you can drag things from one open app to another, damn the list is endless! But I do have one word….QUICKSILVER!
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sbostedor
Vista made me switch to the MAC
The folks at Microsoft had better listen up. I’ve heard stories of everyone from the young savvy crowd to the grandma and grandpa switching from the Microsoft world to the OS X operating system. I’m somewhere in between those demographics but I’m no less of a surprise to my co-workers and friends.I have been a “Windows Fanboy” since the Windows 3.1 days and before that, I was all about DOS. I’ve been a Windows programmer since Visual Basic 1.0 and I’ve invested over a decade learning how Microsoft operating systems work intimately. Switching to another platform was not something that I took lightly – or ever thought would happen.
I’ve given Vista a fair chance. I’ve embraced it 100%. I really wanted it to work for me. I jumped through all of the hoops that I shouldn’t have had to just to be disappointed by yet another bug or incompatibility.
Last week, I got a 2.1Ghz dual core Macbook Pro with 3gigs of RAM. This is roughly the same speed and capacity as the HP laptop that I have Vista Ultimate running on. One week later and I’m asking myself how I could have been so stupid by using Microsoft’s operating systems all of these years.
Everything on my MacBook runs at least twice the speed as the similar program on my HP. Windows just SNAP open quickly and there’s no lag switching between programs. The animations are very smooth and don’t seem to tax the system at all. Why can Apple pull this off while the clowns at Microsoft can’t animate an icon without pegging the CPU?
So, I’ve officially switched. I keep VMWare Fusion with an XP Pro on the MacBook just in case I need to run something in Windows but those are getting less and less as I find more quality apps that run natively in OS X.
I’ve heard our VNCScan customers asking for a MAC version for years. It looks like that’s going to happen soon.
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Jamie A MacDonald
About time!…..What took you so long? I have two now and considering a third for the “rest of the family” lol. Welcome to the cult.
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Jamie A MacDonald
One more thing…if you develope VNCScan for the Mac…Consider using Cocoa, we Mac people LOVE our Cocoa apps!
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Steve
I think I’m going to use RealBasic 2007 to do everything. This way, I can write code once and it will run on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Completely cross platform.
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JMacD 6:30 am on January 16, 2009 Permalink
That’s it? No review. How big is the screen? 17″
sbostedor 6:35 am on January 16, 2009 Permalink
Haven’t had time to get to know it other than my initial reaction yet. I just posted that from my iPhone after the initial unboxing. I’ll have more to say about it later today probably.