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psalliss said:
After several years of wanting a MacBook I got myself a MacBook pro today and was initially really impressed but quickly waned when I started using it. Nothing seems to work easily and am feeling like I wished I'd just got a decent windows 7 laptop. Is this a normal experience and does it get better?
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I was the exact same. Got myself a lovely shiny new Imac last year and took it back after a week. It just seemed very gimmicky, nothing was quite what I wanted. Rather than right clicking and ejecting media with a click.... you had to drag it to the bin and watch it poof into dust. It just seemed childish, it is aimed at the student market after all.

However there marketing hype and the apple products good looks was what initially drawn me in. My friend has a macbook pro mid 2010 model and I love looking at it, playing with it and generally just having a tinker, but for £1000 it certainly wouldn't be me. The productivity of it is somewhat slim. Garage bang, Imovie, who really uses these once again gimmicky programs.

for £1000 you could have got a topper of a windows 7 laptop, blu ray drive etc, more usb ports, larger screen, larger hdd. Generally more powerful and all round a lot more productive.

But hey... the glowing apple and the sleek unibody is what makes them sell... that and the fact people love to sit at starbucks with them on the desk showing them off while supping there over priced coffee, very pretentious IMO. (of course that's not everyone, only a handful) Over priced marketing bull is what you pay for with apple.

I realise I run the risk of every apple fan giving me abuse but owel :(

I would take it back and get a half decent windows 7 laptop and £400 in the back pocket.
 
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Stick with it is all I can say. I've had mine around a year now and haven't looked back. I did question myself very early on but you soon get used to it.
Nobody likes change but just sometimes sticking in there and change can be a good thing.
I wont be buying a Windows machine for myself ever again I think.
 
psalliss said:
one thing that im finding annoying is safari. on my old laptop i used firefox and used to have several home pages where when i opened firefox it opened all the web sites i use on a daily basis but i cant seem to find a way for safari to do the same.
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If you want to open several pages in its own tab, make a bookmark folder on your bookmark bar or menu, and save your bookmarks in there. Open up your bookmarks (alt-cmd-b)

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Tick the box the arrow is pointing to. Close bookmarks window. Pressing the bookmark folder name you created opens all the pages you saved in there in their own tab.

I think that is what you meant :>

C.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
I was the exact same. Got myself a lovely shiny new Imac last year and took it back after a week. It just seemed very gimmicky, nothing was quite what I wanted. Rather than right clicking and ejecting media with a click.... you had to drag it to the bin and watch it poof into dust. It just seemed childish, it is aimed at the student market after all.

However there marketing hype and the apple products good looks was what initially drawn me in. My friend has a macbook pro mid 2010 model and I love looking at it, playing with it and generally just having a tinker, but for £1000 it certainly wouldn't be me. The productivity of it is somewhat slim. Garage bang, Imovie, who really uses these once again gimmicky programs.

for £1000 you could have got a topper of a windows 7 laptop, blu ray drive etc, more usb ports, larger screen, larger hdd. Generally more powerful and all round a lot more productive.

But hey... the glowing apple and the sleek unibody is what makes them sell... that and the fact people love to sit at starbucks with them on the desk showing them off while supping there over priced coffee, very pretentious IMO. (of course that's not everyone, only a handful) Over priced marketing bull is what you pay for with apple.

I realise I run the risk of every apple fan giving me abuse but owel :(

I would take it back and get a half decent windows 7 laptop and £400 in the back pocket.
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Did you really think about this at all before posting it :rolleyes:

or you could just right click or two finger click on trackpad and select eject, you dont have to drag to trash :rolleyes: clearly a failed troll attempt
 
psalliss said:
After several years of wanting a MacBook I got myself a MacBook pro today and was initially really impressed but quickly waned when I started using it. Nothing seems to work easily and am feeling like I wished I'd just got a decent windows 7 laptop. Is this a normal experience and does it get better?
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You're not exactly descriptive about your problems. I purchased a refurb uMacbook in 2009, which was my first OSX device and also the best OS/bit of hardware I've ever used.

I installed Firefox as Safari was rubbish for gestures and I was set. I can't look at your average windows laptop without weeping at all the defraggers/crap cleaner apps that plague them now.

For me it was all about the OS and the way it's apps are all self contained, so they don't scatter files all over the shop. The general slickness of the OS had won me over in a week, and I grew up using windows and dos from their first incarnation.
 
Kainz said:
You're not exactly descriptive about your problems. I purchased a refurb uMacbook in 2009, which was my first OSX device and also the best OS/bit of hardware I've ever used.

I installed Firefox as Safari was rubbish for gestures and I was set. I can't look at your average windows laptop without weeping at all the defraggers/crap cleaner apps that plague them now.

For me it was all about the OS and the way it's apps are all self contained, so they don't scatter files all over the shop. The general slickness of the OS had won me over in a week, and I grew up using windows and dos from their first incarnation.
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Don't forget that not having to use AV tends to speed things up a little also. :)
 
MrMoonX said:
Did you really think about this at all before posting it :rolleyes:

or you could just right click or two finger click on trackpad and select eject, you dont have to drag to trash :rolleyes: clearly a failed troll attempt
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I was going to say that I have absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

If it's a DMG file for installing an App its just right click and eject? :o
 
Spyhop said:
Or... get in to the habit of trying an app and exploring its preferences before taking advice to install something else :p
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I don't have Safari, but does that option let you have multiple home pages like the OP is talking about, or does it let you just set one?

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If you want to open several pages in its own tab, make a bookmark folder on your bookmark bar or menu, and save your bookmarks in there. Open up your bookmarks (alt-cmd-b)

Tick the box the arrow is pointing to. Close bookmarks window. Pressing the bookmark folder name you created opens all the pages you saved in there in their own tab.

I think that is what you meant :>

C.
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What he wants is to have it like Firefox (and IE8 I believe) where you can set multiple home pages.

So when you first open up your browser it automatically opens up x number of tabs with each home page on.
 
I work with Windows at work and I am the opposite way round to the OP. Windows 7 (and XP even more so...) just gets in my way.

I'm also, seemingly, an oddball as I prefer Safari on OS X (I use FireFox on Windows) but that's just me.

Only advice I can give the OP is ignore the trolls and give OS X its far due...you never know you might like it and maybe people here can help with your issues...
 
Once you get over the initial learning curve it's really no different than any other computer. If you have the desire to, just stick with it. Otherwise just return it if you can.
 
I felt the same way after week and now, 14 months later, I've just put my MacBook on eBay. I got over the 'learning curve' but never quite settled. The stuff I like the most are from it's *nix heritage and I can get them on other platforms.

I think some people are just so used to the way there particular thing works they find it hard to understand why it doesn't click some one else and Macs certainly don't for a lot of people.
 
jaybee said:
Sums up my experience of mac usage. It feels like they are being different for the sake of being different rather than being logical and user friendly. I can't stand them.
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Could you possibly be more ignorant?

Apple invented the desktop GUI as we know it with the Lisa and Macintosh. Windows was a very poor knock-off until they finally got close with Windows 95. Only took Microsoft 10 years...
 
A random name said:
No it doesn't? There's obviously something wrong with your Mac.
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It does.

Firefox takes bloody ages to start and is generally poor on my Mac Pro 2009 (SSD) or MBP (2010) or my old 2007 MBP or my dads iBook.

I haven't used Chrome but Safari works fine for me with the added extensions.

I very very rarely use Firefox.
 
HumbleCoder said:
To lazy to Google, but Apple did not invent the GUI as we know it. I'm sure you're well aware of the Xerox connection.
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I'm well aware, thanks. I never claimed they invented GUI, I used the word "desktop" as in what would now be termed a desktop PC (ie not workstation or another specialist system as were common at the time).

Xerox PARC was a research and development operation. The Alto was an internal project and never launched commercially. If memory serves Xerox management didn't understand that they had and sent their engineers to work with Apple in exchange for some stock options if/when they went public.
 
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