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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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10 April 2006 - 7:45 pm
I guess I should go ahead and post about this. A few weeks ago, the desktop computer I bought for about $250 three years started freezing up. At first it happened once every couple of days, but as time went on the frequency increased until it would lock up two or three times per day. This is, obviously, less than ideal and I decided to do something about it. Having decided that I had more than gotten my value out of my old PC, I decided to bite the bullet and see what the whole mac thing was all about. Since I already have a decent laptop, I decided to get a Mac mini.
The mini came last week and so far I'm perfectly happy with it. True, I haven't done much more than browse with it, but it does that admirably well. And while it took a while to get used to the non-Windowsness of OS X, I seem to have adapted fairly quickly. So far so good, anyway. But if you mac users have any tips or not to miss features you'd like to point out, please do so.
The mini came last week and so far I'm perfectly happy with it. True, I haven't done much more than browse with it, but it does that admirably well. And while it took a while to get used to the non-Windowsness of OS X, I seem to have adapted fairly quickly. So far so good, anyway. But if you mac users have any tips or not to miss features you'd like to point out, please do so.
Posted by on 10 April 2006 at 7:45 PM
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Have you played around with bootcamp, or more interestingly, parallels workstation yet? I'm thinking of getting a macbook this week, and I'm curious about those two things.
As for tips or hints, I don't really have any. After a while you kinda forget you're using a different OS.
Posted by Nathan on 10 April 2006 - 10:12 PM
I love my dual G5 but I still need Windows from time to time, and I've been tmepted to buy one of these and drop it in the living room with a small flatpanel screen, now that they can be "officially" dual-booted.
Tip:
Safari has been asymptotically approaching perfection over the last few OS X releases. Some memory leak issues still remain that make it frustrating to use. Use Firefox instead.
Posted by ben on 11 April 2006 - 1:18 PM
Last I checked, there was no Universal Binary for Firefox, and it runs really slowly in emulation.
Posted by Nathan on 11 April 2006 - 4:58 PM
There are prerelease versions of the next update to 1.5 which are universal binaries.
The "official" release, however, is not.
I would still lay odds though that you'll have better luck with the next 1.5 rev than you would with Safari.
Posted by ben on 11 April 2006 - 6:54 PM
Guys, thanks for the input. I've been using firefox since I go the mac (I'm too used to all these plugins), but I have noticed that it's a bit slow. I'll have to give one of those pre-release builds a try.
Posted by david on 12 April 2006 - 7:43 PM
I'm using the alpha intel version right now. I'm pretty impressed.
Posted by Nathan on 12 April 2006 - 9:32 PM
FYI, the first official Firefox release in a universal binary form was released just yesterday.
Posted by ben on 14 April 2006 - 11:44 AM