I've finally ordered a .............

ringo747 · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:30

I've finally ordered a.....

MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.33GHz 2GB 120GB 256MB graphics!

After all the hundreds of posts I've made on here looking for a laptop I have decided to take the plunge and leave my windows loyalties behind and jump into the mac realm!

Couldn't really ever choose which windows laptop I wanted and going for a mac just offered me so many advantages. I hope I can prove all the advice to be valid when my new toy arrives next week!

Thanks for all the help!

Jonny

AJUK · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:34

Fair play, you won't regret it one bit. Give it a few months and then use WIndows again, you will be shocked just how good OS X is in comparison.

Of course, you have already seen the true advantage, the fact that you can run Winblows on it as well.

ringo747 · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:39

yeah i have thought this out for months and i never rush into a decision so i hope its a good one! As long as I don't dwell on the ££ too much it will be ok!

Will_3rd · 12 Jan 2007 at 14:00

good choice, you will not regret it

tsinc80697 · 12 Jan 2007 at 15:36

just got mine today!
need to sort bootcamp out before i do other things =]
sooo nice and cold

ringo747 · 12 Jan 2007 at 15:56

tsinc80697 said:
just got mine today!
need to sort bootcamp out before i do other things =]
sooo nice and cold

what size of partition are you going to use for windows? I was thinking around 20gb would be grand on a 120gb disk.

Are you going to use parallels also?

ringo747 · 14 Jan 2007 at 20:15

if anyone has a list of useful web design apps id appreciate that too!
thanks

AJUK · 14 Jan 2007 at 20:21

http://www.eskimo.com/~pristine/www.html
http://nvu.com/index.php

ringo747 · 14 Jan 2007 at 21:16

thanks for the links - very useful! Another thing was the Windows equivalent of WAMP. Is XAMPP the thing im looking for?

tsinc80697 · 14 Jan 2007 at 21:39

wouldnt mind knowing that ^ aswell, iTunes is just a pain in the ass!
need something which can play music over the network aswell, iTunes does this through the library but it tries to get song data everytime i load it up, of all my songs :/

ringo747 · 14 Jan 2007 at 21:49

tsinc80697 said:
wouldnt mind knowing that ^ aswell, iTunes is just a pain in the ass!
need something which can play music over the network aswell, iTunes does this through the library but it tries to get song data everytime i load it up, of all my songs :/

i think you are on a different wavelength from me! WAMP is windows, apache, mysql and php. You maybe thinking of winamp which is a media player??

tsinc80697 · 14 Jan 2007 at 22:50

oh sorry yeah winamp is what im thinking of not wamp :\

although im after a mac wamp for testing mysql stuff

ringo747 · 14 Jan 2007 at 22:59

tsinc80697 said:
oh sorry yeah winamp is what im thinking of not wamp :\

although im after a mac wamp for testing mysql stuff

just found what im looking for.

It's called MAMP

http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php

Al Vallario · 15 Jan 2007 at 00:34

jonnyc747 said:
just found what im looking for.

It's called MAMP

http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php

If you're serious about web development, why not install Apache, MySQL and PHP yourself?

OS X comes with a version of Apache right out of the box, so all you have to do is install MySQL and PHP. Have a look at this tutorial here. Installing both MySQL and PHP is a walk in the park – the only difficult bit is editing a few files to get PHP working with Apache and configured to your requirements

artaxerxes · 15 Jan 2007 at 01:03

Grrr I am jealous!

ringo747 · 15 Jan 2007 at 01:37

Al Vallario said:
If you're serious about web development, why not install Apache, MySQL and PHP yourself?

OS X comes with a version of Apache right out of the box, so all you have to do is install MySQL and PHP. Have a look at this tutorial here. Installing both MySQL and PHP is a walk in the park – the only difficult bit is editing a few files to get PHP working with Apache and configured to your requirements

could have done that on pc too but opted for wamp instead. one click installer saves you any hassle so why make more work for yourself!

thanks for link anyhow

Mark JB · 15 Jan 2007 at 08:07

MAMP is your friend!

JonB · 15 Jan 2007 at 11:02

I use....

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

It's pretty good for when you only need PHP or use "External" MySql/MSSQL, like myself.

ringo747 · 15 Jan 2007 at 12:49

thanks guys

shifty_uk · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:18

Nice one,
You MIGHT regret it

I've had my Macbook since it came out, and all I've had is trouble. At the moment, it keeps dying on my constantly, and there's something funny going on with the screen.