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  • futura
    Getting Somewhere
    • Jun 2004
    • 249
    #1

    MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

    I am a PC guy thinking about switching to the darkside. Yeah, yeah, I saw the commercials. Funny, but can someone tell me what it is really like?

    How difficult is it to really get used to a completely, entirely different operating system and way of working?

    I consider myself fairly adept at XP. I use my keyboard a lot, and value memorizing keystrokes.

    Are the keystrokes intuitive, memorizeable?

    Is not having a right-click as horrible as I imagine?

    There's a lot of heat in this whole us vs. them thing between PC's and Mac's, and I'm not here to garner those comments. Anyone replying should be posting first-hand or close-hand knowledge of what they experienced or know about using OSX coming from the world of Windows. Easy? Doable? Worth it?

    I will still probably run a Parallels Virtual Machine of XP on this thing for work-related things that I won't have on OSX, but for normal everyday work, et. al., I would anticipate using OSX for everything.

    Or should I just go buy an ugly Dell?
    may the groove be with you
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    • feather
      Shanghai ooompa loompa
      • Jul 2004
      • 20895
      #2
      Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

      It took me a day playing around on an ibook to get used to it, and I've used a PC all my life. Most of keyboard shortcuts are quite intuitive, just replace the Apple button with your Alt.

      And you CAN keep your right click. Just plug in a USB 2-button/scroll-wheel mouse into the Mac. Coming from a PC user, that's one of the essential things you need for your transition.

      You can run Parrallels or simply dual-boot Windows on your macbook.

      i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

      Originally posted by Hoff
      a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
      Originally posted by m1sT3rL
      Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

      I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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        • Caley Martin
          MCast Resident DJ
          • Oct 2004
          • 2636
          #3
          Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

          or you can hold down two fingers on the track pad, and click... does the same as a right click
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            • alexfish333
              Gold Gabber
              • Jul 2004
              • 966
              #4
              Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

              I was in the same boat as you holmes-I got a macbook black over the summer

              just btw the macbook pro only really has a few different bells and whistles-and an upgradeable graphics card-I got mine for Music apps and shit and it does blaze

              Only prob with mine was it had to go back to the tech center 2 times in the first month-but I think that was an atypical experience as many of my friends got new macs this past summer as well and didn't have half the problems


              As far as the experience of switching-it's not bad and once you pick it up some of the things are a lot easier-it's just kind of annoying learning any new op system no matter how much better it is
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                • futura
                  Getting Somewhere
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 249
                  #5
                  Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                  Thanks for the great feedback.

                  I'm still not completely decided. However, stopped by the mac store this evening and had the wife give it a looksy. She says, "get it."

                  Now I just have to take the step over the line marked, "awkward" which I can't quite get over because of the move into the "unknown"... that feeling of defecting that which I know so well...
                  may the groove be with you

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                    • feather
                      Shanghai ooompa loompa
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 20895
                      #6
                      Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                      I don't know anyone who's ever regreted the defection. You won't either!

                      i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

                      Originally posted by Hoff
                      a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
                      Originally posted by m1sT3rL
                      Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

                      I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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                        • Caley Martin
                          MCast Resident DJ
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 2636
                          #7
                          Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                          Originally posted by alexfish333
                          I was in the same boat as you holmes-I got a macbook black over the summer

                          just btw the macbook pro only really has a few different bells and whistles-and an upgradeable graphics card-I got mine for Music apps and shit and it does blaze
                          Huge difference between the two now, the MacBook Pro has the Core 2 Duo chip in it...
                          For your aural infusion of Caley:
                          http://mcast.mercuryserver.com
                          http://soundcloud.com/caleymartin
                          http://ultrawizardsword.net
                          RA: Caley

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                            • miketpoto
                              Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 4223
                              #8
                              Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                              Originally posted by Caley Martin
                              Huge difference between the two now, the MacBook Pro has the Core 2 Duo chip in it...
                              Not a huge difference anymore.

                              So does the Macbook.

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                                • alexfish333
                                  Gold Gabber
                                  • Jul 2004
                                  • 966
                                  #9
                                  Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                  Hooray-That's what I thought but didn't want to say so and be wrong...
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                                  Part of the weekend never dies...

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                                    • miketpoto
                                      Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                                      • Jan 2005
                                      • 4223
                                      #10
                                      Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                      Originally posted by alexfish333
                                      Hooray-That's what I thought but didn't want to say so and be wrong...
                                      It was just announced and made available yesterday.

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                                        • thesightless
                                          Someone will marry me. Hell Yeah!
                                          • Jun 2004
                                          • 13567
                                          #11
                                          Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                          im definetly giving poto sole responsibility when i buy my next computer. boy knows his shit.
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                                            • miketpoto
                                              Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                                              • Jan 2005
                                              • 4223
                                              #12
                                              Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                              Originally posted by thesightless
                                              im definetly giving poto sole responsibility when i buy my next computer. boy knows his shit.
                                              That's what I do... I know my shit

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                                                • Caley Martin
                                                  MCast Resident DJ
                                                  • Oct 2004
                                                  • 2636
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                                  I'd still go with the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, faster CPU speed, dedicated graphics and better heat dissapation... these things run so much cooler than the previous generation. They have wider grill vents in the back as well.
                                                  For your aural infusion of Caley:
                                                  http://mcast.mercuryserver.com
                                                  http://soundcloud.com/caleymartin
                                                  http://ultrawizardsword.net
                                                  RA: Caley

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                                                    • miketpoto
                                                      Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                      • 4223
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                                      Originally posted by Caley Martin
                                                      I'd still go with the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, faster CPU speed, dedicated graphics and better heat dissapation... these things run so much cooler than the previous generation. They have wider grill vents in the back as well.
                                                      Obviously, if you are able to, then go Pro!

                                                      I cant wait to swap my MBP for the new one soon....

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                                                        • asdf_admin
                                                          i use to be important
                                                          • Jun 2004
                                                          • 12798
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo?

                                                          I have come to realize that apple is now an overpriced PC.

                                                          good job apple. wait to people catch on. and all you will become is a software company.

                                                          tossers.
                                                          dead, yet alive.

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