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jamal1984 · 11-25-2008, 02:29 PM

i'm planning to get my self a macbook since i can afford it at the moment.
After couple months getting tired of my dell xps laptop that is so slow for photo editing and getting tired of all this virus and trojan horses....
My friend let me use his macbook the other day and after playing around with it a little bit, i'm sold.
The questions is, is there anything i need to look for when i go and get one? what's the difference between macbook vs macbook pro? is 1gb enough for surfing the net and do photo editing? ....... Should i buy extended warranty with it? what's the warranty for mac now?

Thanks

TinyGiant · 11-25-2008, 04:09 PM

i have the 2.5ghz MBP with 4gb of ram and 250gb HDD 17" HiDef screen with LED backlight.

I LOVE IT!

dont buy the ram upgrade from apple. Get the ram off ebay.. they wanted 400 bux to get to 4gb on the MBP .. i bought the ram on ebay for $80 bux ..lol

like echo said.. if you plan on doing basic computing 1gb is fine.. but if you need to upgrade just dont waste your money at apple upgrading anything.

i would say you will be comfortable with 2gb if using photoshop cs3 .. i opted to max it out just so i wouldnt have to worry about it .. if i needed it.. lol.. probably didnt need it.

bobby · 11-25-2008, 04:30 PM

I have the 17" MacBook Pro and I loooooove it!

CTScott · 11-25-2008, 04:45 PM

I just recently got a MacBook Air for doing some iPhone software/hardware development for my company. I still primarily live in the Windows world, so I have mine setup to dual boot to Mac and XP. With how thin and light it is, it's an awesome laptop for traveling.

Malaya1221 · 11-25-2008, 05:36 PM

if you're on a budget get a refurbushed mac book from apple.com...it's the best computer i've had.(mac os x)

or mb pro

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...ac?mco=MTM3MzI

neo1985 · 11-25-2008, 11:44 PM

one thing for sure, even it only has 1gb ram, is gonna be faster than a windows computer run much better set up in every single way.

YAR1S · 11-25-2008, 11:50 PM

I have an old ibook g3 and a new IMAC, the basic one that you can get and it still pwns all PCs. I dont see anything wrong with my MAC, image wise, its clear and bright. I dont do any image editing though, so I wouldnt know.

Reddog99 · 11-26-2008, 01:42 AM

Get as much ram as you can afford. It will give you a very noticeable speed increase. Don't buy Apple ram, it's too expensive. But don't cheap-out or you'll regret that. A good reliable vendor that sells Apple certified ram is OWC.

jamal1984 · 11-26-2008, 08:34 PM

thanks guy for the info, i just graped one from best buy for like $900 bucks, brand new, Macbook, 13 inch screen 1gb. haven't got out the box yet, but very excited about it, and no more virus. thank you

Malaya1221 · 11-26-2008, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamal1984

....no more virus. thank you

false assumption...you might get one or two but not likely...pc's still dominate the market so not a lot of worm/virus/malicious code programmers will benefit from making one so maybe in the near future, but worms/virus do exist for our platform/OS!

congratz and enjoy!

TinyGiant · 11-26-2008, 08:49 PM

if you put windows on it you will get viruses... keep windows out and you'll be good..

id3379 · 11-26-2008, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TinyGiant

if you put windows on it you will get viruses... keep windows out and you'll be good..

I hate how people stereo type windows, i use both mac and pc.

Ive been running my xp pro for years now, i dont have anti-virus and i never get virus's

People give computer's virus's, not the other way around. If you have enough common sense you will know what not to click on / download.

The only reason mac's are so called "safer" is because windows is 85% of the pc market so hackers want to affect the most people as possible.

jamal1984 · 11-26-2008, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malaya1221

false assumption...you might get one or two but not likely...pc's still dominate the market so not a lot of worm/virus/malicious code programmers will benefit from making one so maybe in the near future, but worms/virus do exist for our platform/OS!

congratz and enjoy!

Thanks

will do very much, i thinks this will keep me from buying another laptop for around 4-5 years, save moneys.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TinyGiant

if you put windows on it you will get viruses... keep windows out and you'll be good..

nope, this is mac by itself, don't want to run window on mac, ...

is it cool to run window on mac? I had run mac on window once, and i think it's really weird.

Quote:

Originally Posted by id3379

I hate how people stereo type windows, i use both mac and pc.

Ive been running my xp pro for years now, i dont have anti-virus and i never get virus's

People give computer's virus's, not the other way around. If you have enough common sense you will know what not to click on / download.

The only reason mac's are so called "safer" is because windows is 85% of the pc market so hackers want to affect the most people as possible.

Sometime it's depend on your computer too, i went to the same website on both of my computer, and one got very bad virus, the other seem like got no problems.
i like to download stuffs, music, movies, games....and sometime i gets all this viruses......and sometime i forgot to back up my files, and i ended up i lost it all.
And i do alot of photo editing, and i think mac will suit me on that better.

TinyGiant · 11-26-2008, 09:34 PM

running windows on a mac can be useful if a program you need to use isnt formated for mac. but most programs you can get either format for now.

save your money and dont buy microsoft office for the mac you can get NeoOffice for free which is better. (google it)

I keep all windows programs out of my mac.

TinyGiant · 11-27-2008, 12:14 AM

NeoOffice is Open office made for the mac. its way more stable than open office.. i got sick of open office and decided to try NeoOffice (from the same company)

works awesome

Reddog99 · 11-27-2008, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malaya1221

false assumption...you might get one or two but not likely...pc's still dominate the market so not a lot of worm/virus/malicious code programmers will benefit from making one so maybe in the near future, but worms/virus do exist for our platform/OS!

congratz and enjoy!

Not a false assumption: He won't get even one or two viruses because there are NO Mac viruses to get.

Shroomster · 11-27-2008, 02:27 AM

thread needs to be closed sending link to mod before this gets out of hands....

eTiMaGo · 11-27-2008, 03:09 AM

I think it's still OK, let's everyone remember this thread is titled "Mac Users Help" and not "The Mac/Windows bashing thread"...

11-25-2008, 02:29 PM	#1
jamal1984 The Beautification of Car View User's Garage Drives: Toyota Yaris S Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 967	Mac Users Help i'm planning to get my self a macbook since i can afford it at the moment. After couple months getting tired of my dell xps laptop that is so slow for photo editing and getting tired of all this virus and trojan horses.... My friend let me use his macbook the other day and after playing around with it a little bit, i'm sold. The questions is, is there anything i need to look for when i go and get one? what's the difference between macbook vs macbook pro? is 1gb enough for surfing the net and do photo editing? ....... Should i buy extended warranty with it? what's the warranty for mac now? Thanks

11-25-2008, 04:09 PM	#2
TinyGiant Tiny Giant Clothing View User's Garage Drives: 2008 Blazing Blue Yaris 3D LB Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rochester, NH Posts: 3,394	i have the 2.5ghz MBP with 4gb of ram and 250gb HDD 17" HiDef screen with LED backlight. I LOVE IT! dont buy the ram upgrade from apple. Get the ram off ebay.. they wanted 400 bux to get to 4gb on the MBP .. i bought the ram on ebay for $80 bux ..lol like echo said.. if you plan on doing basic computing 1gb is fine.. but if you need to upgrade just dont waste your money at apple upgrading anything. i would say you will be comfortable with 2gb if using photoshop cs3 .. i opted to max it out just so i wouldnt have to worry about it .. if i needed it.. lol.. probably didnt need it. __________________ Sold the yaris... rocking an 89 vw cabriolet now :)

11-25-2008, 04:30 PM	#3
bobby Drives: 2007 Yaris/2009 Phit Sport Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northeast Posts: 159	I have the 17" MacBook Pro and I loooooove it! __________________ Obama 2012 Re-elect the President

11-26-2008, 08:49 PM	#11
TinyGiant Tiny Giant Clothing View User's Garage Drives: 2008 Blazing Blue Yaris 3D LB Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rochester, NH Posts: 3,394	if you put windows on it you will get viruses... keep windows out and you'll be good.. __________________ Sold the yaris... rocking an 89 vw cabriolet now :)

11-26-2008, 09:34 PM	#14
TinyGiant Tiny Giant Clothing View User's Garage Drives: 2008 Blazing Blue Yaris 3D LB Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rochester, NH Posts: 3,394	running windows on a mac can be useful if a program you need to use isnt formated for mac. but most programs you can get either format for now. save your money and dont buy microsoft office for the mac you can get NeoOffice for free which is better. (google it) I keep all windows programs out of my mac. __________________ Sold the yaris... rocking an 89 vw cabriolet now :)

11-25-2008, 04:45 PM	#4
CTScott ULTIMATE View User's Garage Drives: 09 5dr LB, 2x 08 3dr LB Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: USA, CT Posts: 13,460	I just recently got a MacBook Air for doing some iPhone software/hardware development for my company. I still primarily live in the Windows world, so I have mine setup to dual boot to Mac and XP. With how thin and light it is, it's an awesome laptop for traveling.

11-25-2008, 05:36 PM	#5
Malaya1221 super duper M*******TOR Drives: 2007 jahPANIS egg(Sarao Phil) Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Torrance, Ca Posts: 1,011	if you're on a budget get a refurbushed mac book from apple.com...it's the best computer i've had.(mac os x) or mb pro http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...ac?mco=MTM3MzI

11-25-2008, 11:44 PM	#6
neo1985 Drives: yaris hb s Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: temple city Posts: 100	one thing for sure, even it only has 1gb ram, is gonna be faster than a windows computer run much better set up in every single way.

11-25-2008, 11:50 PM	#7
YAR1S View User's Garage Drives: 07 Yaris 3dr LB (Bayou Blue) Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 2,602	I have an old ibook g3 and a new IMAC, the basic one that you can get and it still pwns all PCs. I dont see anything wrong with my MAC, image wise, its clear and bright. I dont do any image editing though, so I wouldnt know.

11-26-2008, 01:42 AM	#8
Reddog99 Drives: '08 Yaris Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: SoCal (Jamul) Posts: 97	Get as much ram as you can afford. It will give you a very noticeable speed increase. Don't buy Apple ram, it's too expensive. But don't cheap-out or you'll regret that. A good reliable vendor that sells Apple certified ram is OWC.

11-26-2008, 08:34 PM	#9
jamal1984 The Beautification of Car View User's Garage Drives: Toyota Yaris S Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 967	thanks guy for the info, i just graped one from best buy for like $900 bucks, brand new, Macbook, 13 inch screen 1gb. haven't got out the box yet, but very excited about it, and no more virus. thank you

11-27-2008, 12:14 AM	#15
TinyGiant Tiny Giant Clothing View User's Garage Drives: 2008 Blazing Blue Yaris 3D LB Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rochester, NH Posts: 3,394	NeoOffice is Open office made for the mac. its way more stable than open office.. i got sick of open office and decided to try NeoOffice (from the same company) works awesome __________________ Sold the yaris... rocking an 89 vw cabriolet now :)

11-27-2008, 02:27 AM	#17
Shroomster '07 to '12:2 wipers to 1? View User's Garage Drives: '12 5-door LE & '14 5-door LE Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Orlando Posts: 1,999	thread needs to be closed sending link to mod before this gets out of hands....

11-27-2008, 03:09 AM	#18
eTiMaGo vroom vroom View User's Garage Drives: lil red 5-door Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 7,744	I think it's still OK, let's everyone remember this thread is titled "Mac Users Help" and not "The Mac/Windows bashing thread"... __________________ The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. - Robert Jackson Bye bye 1NZ...

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