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    Made the switch!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ohmide, Jun 12, 2007.

  1. ohmide

    ohmide Notebook Geek

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    I'm glad to announce that I'm a proud owner of a new MBP (128MB Video). I have and continue to support only Windows machines for close to 9 years in IT so this is indeed a change. But preliminary feelings are all positive. No buyer's remorse at all. The LED backlit screen is insanely bright and the laptop has an overall solid feel. BootCamp works perfectly and I just installed LOTRO and am playing at "High" settings with no problems. OSX is very solid and I'm gradually finding all of the necessary software packages that everyone uses.

    Here are the benchmarks I took just to compare it to my old desktop machine.
    3DMark06 v1.1.0 - 2825
    3DMark05 v1.3.0 - 6515

    A few questions to the Mac users out there:

    1) Is there a way to speed up the mighty mouse's tracking speed? I have it maxed out and it's still pretty slow.

    2) Is there a good, free text editor that someone knows about? I opened up an HTML-coded TXT file that I use for Ebay and TextEdit would not display the raw code.
     
    ohmide, Jun 12, 2007
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Congrats on switching, Ohmide! :) The new MacBook Pros are awesome.

    As for the second question, you will want to look at NeoOffice. I assume you've heard about OpenOffice.org for PC, well there is a Mac version of OpenOffice but it requires X11 and consumes lots of resources, so the OOo group released NeoOffice, which is essentially OpenOffice for Mac with a more Mac look and consuming less resources.

    So yeah, check out NeoOffice. Its free, has a word processor, spreadsheet app, powerpoint app, etc.
     
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  3. pinwanger

    pinwanger Notebook Consultant

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    seems like the 128mb version is significantly less powerful than the 256 mb version.
     
    pinwanger, Jun 12, 2007
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  4. Mr. Burns

    Mr. Burns Notebook Enthusiast

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    If you want a code text editor I use jEdit.
     
    Mr. Burns, Jun 12, 2007
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