macs are the shiz. have 2 15" mbp's and a 21" imac at home and a brand new 27" imac and 30" cinema display in the office.

op - did you get the glossy or matte screen?

and X2 on the ass for not using time machine to back up.

 

Got the glossy. Was apprehensive about glossy monitors a few months back, but got a 27" glossy HP monitor and loved it.

 

glossy shows fingerprints much more than the matte. oh, and don't sneeze anywhere near the screen - it will attract tiny sneeze-droplets.

 

What browsers do you guys use on your Mac's??

I feel as if chrome is not as good compared to other browsers on the PC, at least a year ago. Or FF has just caught up, but chrome is slow sometimes, even after I cleared browsing history (not cookies though).

edit: I will say chrome is a lot faster at rendering PDF's in its browser than FF

 

I use Chrome on my Macs/PC. The syncing capability alone is worth it (and that includes all my PC's, Macs, Ipad, Iphone, Android), I use Chrome on everything. Firefox is garbage. Every so often on the Mac, delete Chrome out and re-install it, Mac saves all old versions of it and it grows and bloats.

 

I see, I'll re-install it then. Thanks for the tip!

 

firefox

 

No.

 

I still like and use Safari

 

They are mostly all the same. I only use chrome for the bookmark syncing, I think they all do it now, but chrome did it first and does it well. If something doesnt work in one, I try another.

 

yeah...safari does it.

I have chrome. I've just gotten used to how certain sites react and open windows (or don't) with safari.

I use chrome on a rare occasion for specific things.

 

No choice my company's internal sites don't work well with Chrome or Safari

 

What will be interesting is that FF is developing its own engine, chrome is doing its own with webkit now, then you have safari with webkit.

Wonder how each will develop and compare once they get their own specific engines running them.

 

Then quit...

 

I'm glad Chrome is branching off, hopefully this will finally encourage web devs to focus on web standards instead of developing for one browser, like they did with IE 10yrs ago and are doing with mobile Webkit now...

 

Exactly like Whiskers says, I use Chrome on everything, PC, Macs, Galaxy Nexus.

The only thing I don't use Chrome on is my first generation iPad. For some reason, Chrome is very slow compared to Safari.

 

Me too. It's always worked well for me so I saw no need to use anything else.

Any reasons in particular you guys would recommend Chrome > Safari?

 

That reason is because Apple forces them to use regular WebKit. They aren't allowed to use their propreitary JavaScript engine while Safari can use its proprietary JavaScript accelerator.

That's the speed difference you see, iOS limits it.

 

I've found chrome to be a bit slower on macs (not by much) however it's been consistent. FireFox seems to be a bit faster, but there will be days where it's unbearably slow and you just have to restart your mac and FireFox multiple times to get it working properly.

Safari is like the IE of Mac, I use it when a site won't pull up in chrome/FF.

 

How do I move a folder to the root of my mac

 

edit: nvm I dont need to do this anymore figured out something else I can do

 

my trackpad is acting erratic... thats not a good sign.

I restarted my computer and it still is doing it.

it moves and clicks on its own. Did it twice while typing this out.

Is this something that will go away or will it I need to take it in...

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243

 

edit: it came back after a couple minutes... it delayed it for a little bit.

 

Clean it? Otherwise its hardware most likely, if you have the lastest OS on it, hold control down when booting and pick the recovery partition and let it boot and see if it does the same.

 

Can I just clean it with a damp paper towel??

I have OSX mountain. I'll tryt that. Otherwise I'll take it to an apple store today. I think my laptop just passed its one year warranty I did buy it with and amex card though.

 

^ If it's reasonably close to the warranty end date the apple store is pretty liberal with their good will policy and will usually take care of it. Out of recent experience though a track pad installed is $100, which they waived for me nearly a year outside of warranty.

 

Thanks, I'll be sure to visit a store today.

 

I like spray cleaner on the keyboard while its on, its fine.

 

They had to replace the trackpad.

Replaced it for free even though I was 15 days past warranty

 

Nice. I've had nothing but great experiences with their Genius Bar folks, glad you got to experience the same.

 

Yupp I just didn't know i had to make an appointment so when i got there I had to wait a ltl over an hour then after they took it another hour. At least its in a mall.

He said next time they wont cover something since its out of warranty, I feel like apple covers the first thing out of warranty then stops. Who knows. We bought mine on the amex card so i'm good for another year though.

Despite it being good service I still dont think something like this should have happened over a year.

 

Apple > *

 

But I hate alum. beer can looks, no options to upgrade, no side number board, and the pompous asses that pretend that their machine is not as flackey as the rest on the market. But for a jerk or two, I guess the retina display is easy to clean.

 

I like the whole unibody aluminum look but that's all preference.

I played with the MacBook Pro with retina displays there. I didn't look at the spec for the one I was using but it was really fast. Things like iPhoto opened up so quickly it was incredible.

Made me jealous. I really want to upgrade to 8gb of ram right now.

I have a lot of friends that said once you go Mac you won't go back. I don't see that though. The experience with mine didn't blow my previous laptop out of the water. There are something's I liked in windows 7 better.

But by far the best thing about the Mac is the trackpad. Just hope it doesn't go bad again

Edit: and their service is great

I like how I didn't have to ship in my laptop just go to a nearby apple store and have it fixed

 

I am just kidding about Macs. I was real close in buying one a few months ago. I just liked the Alienware because I could up the specs (and price) as I'm on about a five to six year use cycle on a computer. To be honest I'd probably get by with an iPad or Nexus tablet if they could beef up the CPU/GPU to handle once in a blue moon programs like Turbo Tax or SPSS.

 

yeah ok

 

I'm pretty excited.....


1. Bought a new 15" Macbook Pro with Retina Display (7.2 Core/16G/500G) at Micro Center

2. Sold my old Macbook Pro (5 years old) for $600!

 

someone seriously bought a 5 year old macbook pro for $600

 

7.2 core!!!