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Taking the Plunge

Administrator - Posted on 18 January 2007

Russell, Vessels and everyone out there in blogland, feel free to congratulate me...I just put in my order for this beauty...

The Macbook Pro should arrive at my house next week, and I can't hardly wait. I've been on an IBM compatible since I was 9, and I've made my fair share of scoffs at Mr. Jobs and Apple, so this is a pretty radical transition for me. Still, after a disastrous 2.5 years with a Dell product I couldn't stand to purchase another one of their boxes (not to mention the fact that Mr. Dell is a big GOP donor). With Dell out of the picture I started thinking more and more about going with a ThinkPad, but in the back of my mind I was tinkering with Apple. Well, I've heard nothing but rave reviews regarding the Macbook Pro so I decided to take the plunge...

That said, has anyone out there used bootcamp on an apple? I'm thinking about throwing it on the new machine when it gets here so I can still run my ibm based programs (and because saying goodbye is hard to do).

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need real XP for bootcamp or parallel
Submitted by Jill on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 5:25pm.

It had been pre-installed on my prior computers so I didn't have it so I couldn't use Bootcamp or Parallel.  And I didn't feel like buying it - forced myself to learn the OS X - no problem.

Enjoy your new baby

sweet!
Submitted by Eric Vessels on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 6:57pm.
you won't be sorry. i'd run parallels if you need to swap back and forth. never got it up and running due to just getting all the 'doz software new for mac. i also recommend brushing up on unix commands and for sure get Quicksilver...you'll be scary efficient then. ;-)...oh, yeah...and Snapz Pro X! Gotta have Snapz!

Eric Vessels
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Progress Ohio - Powered By You!
www.progressohio.org
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IBM compatible, heh.
Submitted by bonobo on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 10:09pm.
you realize that nobody under 30 knows what that means, right?
Hypercard and Daisywheels
Submitted by Jill on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 11:31pm.
I love it when I'm in the Apple store and this under 21 year olds are trying to teach me stuff on the Mac and I'm thinking to myself, they weren't even BORN when I bought my first Mac in 1986.  And they sure don't know what Hypercard or a Daisy Wheel was - I'll buy a cup of coffee at RootsCamp for anyone who can tell me, without checking Google, what a Daisy looked like and did.  No cheating now.
daisy wheel?!
Submitted by bryan on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 1:31am.

oh, i remember those.  in fact, the typewriter i used in typing class had a daisy-wheel printer.  it was the last of the hybrid typewriter/word processor things before home computing became affordable.  it even had a built-in correction strip. 

it was a disk, about 4 inchs across, with the letters on spokes. 

jeebus crisp, i'm getting old.

Had one
Submitted by Schmajo on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 9:08am.
Bought a Brother daisywheel printer to go with our 1st computer -- Apple IIc. I think that was 1983. It was blazing fast, 11 characters per second. The output looked much better than the dot matrix (there's another over-30 term) printers then available.
I actually HAVE a daisy wheel
Submitted by DrewTappan on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:25am.
.. stashed away in my parents attic along with an Apple III. I don't think it's been plugged in in nearly 20 years - and mostly, I remember that it was LOUD.

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Drew Tappan
Campaign Manager - Neuhardt for Congress
http://www.NeuhardtForCongress.com
Then here's another one
Submitted by Jill on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 12:26pm.
What was the name of the external, rectangular device that allowed you to transfer information between 5.25 floppies and 3.5 diskettes, BEFORE computers came with one drive of each size!?
Dunno
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 1:05pm.
But I'm old enough to remember using 8" floppy disks on a DEC PDP 11/70.
Parallels & Boot Camp
Submitted by DrewTappan on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:11am.
I use both Parallels and Boot Camp (a boot camp partition on my intel core duo, that can also be booted by Parallels) New Parallels versions include a feature called "Coherence" that allows you to run windows aps in a manner that makes them seem like they're running inside the aqua interface. it's kinda hot. I pretty much only use Bootcamp for games, and I really only use parallels for Streets and Trips, and for outlook to connect to exchange servers.

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Drew Tappan
Campaign Manager - Neuhardt for Congress
http://www.NeuhardtForCongress.com

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