The hardrive of my Dell Latitude busted last week, so my dad was nice enough to buy me a Mac Book Pro (15").
HOLY SHIT! It is amazing.
Everything fucking works. For instance, I didn't have to install the (terrrible, terrible, terrible) program for my external hard drive; just plugged it in and dragged stuff to my (120GB) hard drive. Same with my digital camera. Just plug it in, and let the mac take over.
I wouldn't really say there is a learning curve, the only thing I have problems with is sometimes I accidentally activate the "hot corners" when I don't mean to
The biggest thing to getting the hang of OS X is to put aside thinking of how things are done in Windows.
OS X isn't without its wrinkles though. Apps randomly shutting down mid use without any sort of error message or OS X itself just going to a grey screen saying you need to restart.
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Go to System Prefs in the Dock>desktop & screen savers>screen savers>hot corners. Select the (-) sign at the bottom of the pull down for all 4 corners.
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man... i been working out of starbucks for the past like 6 weeks. what's funny is starbucks is filled with people with dell laptops from 8 am thru 6ish pm... around 7 pm all Dell's disappear and starbucks is literally FULL of high school and college kids with MAC's.
Sometimes it's embarrassing to work on my laptop after 6 pm there. iwas thinking of buying a MAC just for that purpose.
But apparently there are applications that I am going to need for my major (finance) that require Windows, so I will probably get it eventually.
As for the hot corners....I like them a lot; its just the one in the top left that pisses me off (when I am trying to close things). I will probably switch it around so that I don't use top left, because my bottom right is application windows which i don't use
i would use virtual machines like VMWare to run windows within the MAC OS. this way i dont have to deal with Windows potentially messing up my file system. and i can scrap the VM image anytime it causes trouble (and re-download the original image over and over again)
Virtual machines are definitely the way to go unless you're trying to play games. If it's gaming you want, you're stuck dual-booting so you can use the video card instead of the slow software video acceleration.
At least Windows can't write to the HFS+ partition so even if you do dual boot, you can't totally foul up both OSes with a Windows virus.
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