2013 Haswell Retina MacBook Pro...

Naan_H said:
Finally opened my rMBP 512gb / 16GB / nvidia yesterday. This is my first mac - its going to take a lot of getting used to. A few questions:

Does OS X run at the retina resolution natively (i.e at max res)? There is an option to increase desktop size - i assume changing that doesn't change the resolution?

Is it recommended to install microsoft office if needing word / excel etc ?- i had a quick look at pages etc, they dont seem that easy to use

Pages is ridiculously easy to use... play around with it (after all it is free)

Can anybody recommend a mouse? - im not sure i can be using the pad all the time!

Use it! Get use to the multi gestures etc... and you won't go back to a mouse (well... not in a hurry anyway!)

Im sure my list of questions will grow - it is a very slick machine however!
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I've been using works mac all week, buy a mouse!

as awesome as the trackpad is, it isn't anywhere near as good as a proper mouse

I've just ordered the magic mouse, brand new on the bay for £35, don't pay silly apple prices
 
Spit said:
Because its easy like this....

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I can copy between them by drag and drop and runs Windows 8.1 super fast!

Plus looks cool :cool:
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any performance hit running it on os x as apposed to bootcamp?
 
glen8 said:
from someone who has never had a mac before

why would I pay for parallels / vmware fusion when bootcamp is free?

Thanks!
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As mentioned above, you need to reboot to get into bootcampt but wouldn't when using a solution like Parallels or VMWare.

glen8 said:
any performance hit running it on os x as apposed to bootcamp?
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I don't do it myself because my Macbook is a little too underpowered. But from my experiences running Linux in a VM in Windows on my main machine there will be a slight performance hit although it still runs ok (use Bootcamp for gaming though).



You might also want to try a free solution such as Virtualbox which does the same thing and doesn't cost anything and does support OSX guests now.
 
If you regularly switch between OS X and Windows and need to be able to use both in tandem, VMWare/Parallels will be a far better solution than VirtualBox. Linux support is apparently better with VirtualBox, however otherwise you get what you pay for. Performance on my MBA with VB is tolerable for basic work (keep in mind that the 13" MBP isn't a huge degree faster), but for anything besides productivity I'd want to use VMWare or Parallels.
 
lamboman said:
If you regularly switch between OS X and Windows and need to be able to use both in tandem, VMWare/Parallels will be a far better solution than VirtualBox.
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Out of interest why are VMWare and Parallels far better than Virtualbox for running Windows and OSX together?
 
Better performance, decent graphics support, integration features, the list goes on.

Virtualbox's sole advantage is that it's free.
 
glen8 said:
I've been using works mac all week, buy a mouse!

as awesome as the trackpad is, it isn't anywhere near as good as a proper mouse

I've just ordered the magic mouse, brand new on the bay for £35, don't pay silly apple prices
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Subjective, and would actually disagree.

I'm far more productive with the trackpad than a mouse, even the magic mouse.

I use a trackpad exclusively on both my iMac and rMBP.
 
Turbo-G said:
Subjective, and would actually disagree.

I'm far more productive with the trackpad than a mouse, even the magic mouse.

I use a trackpad exclusively on both my iMac and rMBP.
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i disagree with you. i used teh trackpack on the macbook pro retina for 3 months and did not enjoy it. granted its better then a standard trackpad on most windows laptops but its not good enough
 
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