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Major transition?

post #1 of 13
8/26/06 at 12:53am
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I'm probably going to be getting a Mac Book for school work, and I'm wondering (because I'm so used to Windows) if it takes a while, or if it is even an issue, to get adjusted to the Mac OS? Is there a HUGE difference between the two or just a few different buttons, functions, etc...

I'm just wondering, thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 13
8/26/06 at 1:03am
take a week max to get your bearings.

i did it in 2 days. just play with it a lot, youll be FINE.

XP isnt bad, and most of us grew up on it. OSX is just "tweaked well" to me. i still use an xp box and love it too. but osx, once you get into the dirt of it, youll love!
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post #3 of 13
8/26/06 at 1:07am
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I'm going to be using my MacBook for schoolwork as my work station and still using my desktop for gaming, so would there be much difference between them? I suppose not if my desktop is only going to be clicked twice to open up a game...
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post #4 of 13
8/26/06 at 6:27am
I'm transitioning to a Mac soon too (Macbook Pro comes on Monday), and am pretty excited. I'm going to set up XP on one partition since I need it for programming and those non-Mac supported games. From what others have told me, the transition isn't really that bad at all. In fact, some warn that it's almost too easy, meaning as a former windows user you'll try and do/learn too much since you're used to having to do all the work in windows. We'll see
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post #5 of 13
8/26/06 at 12:58pm
im taking a c++ class this semester, so i installed windows.

then i found me some Xcode! take a look, it might do what you want. NO it wont do VB
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post #6 of 13
8/26/06 at 1:14pm
Transition is stupidly easy. It took me one evening to get everything up and running and configuring apple to the way i wanted it. And this is coming from over 20 years windows environment. Of course I'm learning all the time of how to tweak and configure my apple, but to get it up and running and installing bootcamp and software and configuring here and there. Naaa it took no time at all. In fact you wont even need guides. I bought the missing manuals and a couple other help guides (thinking i might need them) and they just sat on the floor. Apple is that intuitive. The hardest part was finding apple equivalent software that im used to running in windows. Now that drove me and still drives me crazy. Also there are some (unbelievable) websites i use for graduate level research that still error in safari so i am using firefox (the lack of maximizing feature drives me crazy).
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post #7 of 13
8/28/06 at 1:16am
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Originally Posted by kgeier82
im taking a c++ class this semester, so i installed windows.

then i found me some Xcode! take a look, it might do what you want. NO it wont do VB

Unfortunately, the programming I am doing is Windows and DirectX programming, so I'm pretty sure I have to stay in Windows for that, unless I started running emulators and stuff in OS X. Maybe I should look into that...
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post #8 of 13
8/28/06 at 10:43am
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Originally Posted by Keeyai
Unfortunately, the programming I am doing is Windows and DirectX programming, so I'm pretty sure I have to stay in Windows for that, unless I started running emulators and stuff in OS X. Maybe I should look into that...

I'd just dual boot the system(or even better triple boot Linux, XP, OS X).
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post #9 of 13
8/29/06 at 2:24am
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Originally Posted by Corpheus
I'd just dual boot the system(or even better triple boot Linux, XP, OS X).

Yeah, at the moment, dual booting is my plan. Triple booting sounds entriguing...have any of you guys tried it? I like linux alot, too, so that sounds like fun!
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post #10 of 13
8/29/06 at 5:43pm
ive had only dual boot going. the 60gb HD, really kinda limits what i do. i even may upgrade just to run xp/osx, couldnt imagine 3 OS's on 60gb
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post #11 of 13
8/31/06 at 3:08pm
Not yet. I'm pondering whether to go for a Macbook or MacBook Pro...although I'm not being too quick with my choice as I want to see whats happening with C2D. I've a month before I really need a(new) laptop so I'll wait a bit longer. If you google it you should find a good few articles describing how its done. What distro of Linux would you be looking for?
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post #12 of 13
9/1/06 at 2:20am
I have the most experience with Gentoo, so I'm leaning towards that distro. I've also worked with Fedora and Debian. Going to wait until I have my Dual boot 100% working before I move to triple boot. Still need to get a valid XP Key ><
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post #13 of 13
9/1/06 at 6:23am
i hear u can buy them pretty readily.
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