Should I get the 3 year protection plan?
Bill Gorder wrote:I am looking at the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
Should I get the 3 year protection plan?
Also if you have a collection of "as soon as you open the box you should ..." kind of pointers I would love to hear about those too.
I am currently running Ubuntu, with Windows support for the family that I can't get using Linux I have heard good things about the Mac so I though I would give it a try.
With OS X, Apple has pulled of what no one else has been able to do. Put a usable GUI on Unix. (I'm not dissing the Linux desktops here -- but there's no way that they are usable to the masses.)
Bill Gorder wrote:Does that TimeMachine actually work?
Apple hardware is rock solid in my experience
Part of the problem is that Blizzard doesn't support the native Retina resolution
Gregg Bolinger wrote: Most of us don't buy MBP's for gaming. We need new information. Not the same old price complaint. Mac's are great at what their designed to do. And they are not designed to be gaming machines.
Gregg Bolinger wrote: Everything on my mac is fast. And I don't have top of the line. The SSD makes a big difference. It is quiet, looks nice, and I rarely have to restart it.
Pat Farrell wrote:Netbeans is not amazing.
Bear Bibeault wrote:The scroll direction is changeable in System Prefs.
Bear Bibeault wrote:To quickly select an app, open Launchpad (rocket icon on Doc, or "scrunching" gesture on trackpad) and start typing the app name.
You can assign a shortcut key to Launchpad in the Sys Prefs Keyboard panel.
Bill Gorder wrote:So this is my first post from my new Mac ..
Bear Bibeault wrote:
You can put an icon for Terminal in the Dock to make it one click away. (But I use iTerm2 rather than stock Terminal.)
Maneesh Godbole wrote:
Sweet!
Pics or it didn't happen
I loved Snaggit for Windows and missed it on Ubuntu...
Uninstalling things is a bit of a manual process...
If you use Gmail, the mail program to me seems more trouble than its worth...
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
Shift+command+1 | 2 | 3 | 4 will give you screenshots and then the Preview app gives you a nice set of annotation and editing tools. You might look into that rather than buying a product. You've already spent a lot of money on the Mac. ;o). But I understand using something you are already familiar with.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
If you're just talking about Apps under Applications, just move them to the trash. That's it.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
I think the Mail.app works with Gmail just fine. However, I've been using Airmail for a while and I really like it.
Sounds like a lot of extra stuff remains after that...
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
In my 4+ years using a Mac, I've never worried about left behind bits and I've never had issues related to it. There are products available that claim they will clean all the left behind stuff. And they all come with disclaimers that they are not responsible for removing vital files from your computer and turning it into a $2500 brick.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:And just as an FYI, Ubuntu's package manager doesn't really fully uninstall everything, either:
Bill Gorder wrote:Perhaps I can give up my anal retentiveness and do it the easy way
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs. |