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You might want to rethink that, it looks kinda fragile.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm determined to give OSx a fair shake.
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Ssd no effected by shaking!
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Congratulations! Did you get me one??|
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*slides the machine further onto the table top and then straightens the pictures hanging on the wall*
What.
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Keep in mind if worst comes to worst you can boot camp it or do a virtual machine to make up for what OSX cant do natively. Mine runs CoX flawlessly at this point. For the games it cant run I boot camp. I will do SSD when the price becomes reasonable instead of how insane it currently is.
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I wouldn't mind one, but I'd want at least the 13" model... with more HD space, I know how fast I fill that up X.X
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SSD prices look more reasonable at the moment than a year ago, due to the flooding in Thailand that wiped out 80% of the world hard drive manufacturing capacity.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
I will do SSD when the price becomes reasonable instead of how insane it currently is.
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You can easily boot Windows off of this and have plenty of space for stuff you want to go fast. I've been playing around with the 120GB version for caching and certain disk-intensive things, and I can say City of Heroes patches plenty fast. The cost is less than most gaming rigs' video cards.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
SSD prices look more reasonable at the moment than a year ago, due to the flooding in Thailand that wiped out 80% of the world hard drive manufacturing capacity.
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Yep. I have a set of the older Vertex2's in RAID1 on my machine here.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
You can easily boot Windows off of this and have plenty of space for stuff you want to go fast. I've been playing around with the 120GB version for caching and certain disk-intensive things, and I can say City of Heroes patches plenty fast. The cost is less than most gaming rigs' video cards.
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I watch the progress bar come up, count "One, Two" and watch it race to the end.
17 second boot times are the shizzle.
I'm no big fan of Apple, wait. I'm not an Apple fan PERIOD. But SSDs make my inner hardware geek squee like a little girl given a pony.
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Looked like it. But with how I save money, it'd have to be my tax return - and I've already used some of that, and the rest I'm hoping to split between savings, the Pummit, and a smaller toy or two.
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Originally Posted by Freitag
I believe Zwillinger's is the 13" :-). Not sure about Hard Drive size though!
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Post here or PM me if you have any questions about the compatibility issues. I'll do my best to answer them.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
My new meeting/work at home machine. Some minor compatibility issues, but I should be able to work past those. I'm determined to give OSx a fair shake. |
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The only major compatibility issue I've got right now is with our VPN software here at work. It doesn't like to connect through anything but a browser for the time being. |
Originally Posted by CuppaManga
Post here or PM me if you have any questions about the compatibility issues. I'll do my best to answer them.
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For now, for email and other office related things I'm using Open Office and Thunderbird (the default mail app doesn't play as nicely). I will, eventually, invest in Office for the Mac, but that's more than likely a month or so down the road (or at least until I need to start working on Power Points for the Pummit
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What brand of VPN is it? Some of them have their own clients for download. (tell me via PM if you'd rather the whole world didn't know)|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
The only major compatibility issue I've got right now is with our VPN software here at work. It doesn't like to connect through anything but a browser for the time being.
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For now, for email and other office related things I'm using Open Office and Thunderbird (the default mail app doesn't play as nicely). I will, eventually, invest in Office for the Mac, but that's more than likely a month or so down the road (or at least until I need to start working on Power Points for the Pummit
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Couple thoughts:
1. NeoOffice, I think, is the MacOS-friendly port of OpenOffice. I have had better luck with this than with the official MS Office suite for Mac. MUCH better. MS Office had failure modes that, on careful consideration, I don't think I could duplicate on purpose if you gave me a week to try to create them.
2. Don't expect CoH to run well on the Air; no video card to speak of.
3. If you do want to run City, you may get better luck with Crossover Games than you do with the cider wrapper, though that won't solve the ncsoft launcher problem.
4. Be ready for some reframing-of-questions. There are a lot of things where the difference between the Mac and Windows ways isn't that one sucks and the other is great, but just that they reward very different cognitive approaches.
5. If you want to use IM stuff, the program is Adium. I know a lot of Mac users, and the blunt fact is, none of them have mentioned any other IM program. Yes, it really is that much nicer.
6. If you do serious writing, look into Scrivener.
7. Mail program? MailMate is the one I would recommend.
8. USE TIME MACHINE. It's totally worth it.
9. If you like more details and status, iStat Menus is pretty good at stuff like CPU temperatures and fan speeds.
10. Learn to program it. The programmability of the machine is something amazing.
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I will suggest to you right now since ive worked with macs a while. If it has lion on it you should go to Snow leopard. Lion isn't exactly a strong suit operating system.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
My new meeting/work at home machine. Some minor compatibility issues, but I should be able to work past those. I'm determined to give OSx a fair shake. |
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In your experience, does the office suite for Mac perform well?
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Originally Posted by CuppaManga
You can also download Pages, Numbers, and Keynote from the Mac App Store without actually going to a store. It's not a perfect match, but it will import/export Microsoft formats pretty well and they aren't expensive. But really, it depends what you're used to and what you're comfortable with.
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Do you mean MS Office for Mac, or iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)?|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
In your experience, does the office suite for Mac perform well?
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Personally haven't used Office for Mac. My mom does and she seems to like it. iWork works great for what I would normally use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for, which is pretty much the basics. Slightly different and may take some getting used to finding some functions, as with any new software, but pretty compatible in my experience. Pages also has a built in "Save as PDF" option built in which I like for things I don't want others to edit, which Word doesn't have without and acrobat plug in (at least in the slightly older versions of Word on windows. That may be different now though), as well as should open and save files to and from MS Word too.
There may be some higher end functions missing, but the majority should be available. Price wise, the iWork suite is cheaper. I think $79 and has a free trial available. Office is $150.
Not to mention that if you use iOS devices with iCloud also, you can upload the documents into iCloud, and use the iOS apps of the iWork programs to view and edit on the go. While I wouldn't recommend relying on the iOS apps on an iPhone and iPad for normal and extensive editing, like making a full new spreadsheet or a 10 page report, but for a quick view for reference and light edits on the go they work great and will stay synced between your iOS devices and iCloud. You could do all of those things...they are surprisingly full featured...but its still difficult due to screen size and a lack of a real keyboard. The iOS apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) are $10 each.
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No. It's like it was written to be less efficient than the Windows native version. There are even a few features missing, especially in Excel.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
In your experience, does the office suite for Mac perform well?
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I wouldn't recommend it.
Also, please spend some significant time playing the mac client and relaying all of your feelings to us.
EDIT: If you could also tell the resident Web guy to update the HTML for the Mac client, that'd be great. It's not the Winter Event any more.
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To be fair, every version of Office since Office 97 has been written to be less efficient than the previous version and missing features, so that might not be a Mac issue per se.
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No. It's like it was written to be less efficient than the Windows native version. There are even a few features missing, especially in Excel.
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To be fair, every version of Office since Office 97 has been written to be less efficient than the previous version and missing features, so that might not be a Mac issue per se.
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I distinctly remember the Mac Excel having 3 less functions than the Windows Excel. I can't remember which, I just remember being very upset when I found out they weren't cross-platform functions.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
To be fair, every version of Office since Office 97 has been written to be less efficient than the previous version and missing features, so that might not be a Mac issue per se.
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My new meeting/work at home machine.
Some minor compatibility issues, but I should be able to work past those. I'm determined to give OSx a fair shake.
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Community Manager
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