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

[ringo747]

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

 

[ringo747]

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!

 

[ringo747]

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]

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

 

[ringo747]

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

 

[ringo747]

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??

 

[ringo747]

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

 

[ringo747]

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

 

[ringo747]

thanks guys

 

[ringo747]

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.

nothing like offering nice reassuring words after me spending half my life earnings lol

 

[ringo747]

Nothing wrong with my Macbook here

Just got Parallels RC loaded last night - soooo good Coherence is simply great!

Jonny what part of the country you from?

il give ya a clue. Add the word 'hi' onto the end of every sentence!

 

[ringo747]

yoho, its arrived a day early but not allowed to open it until after last exam tomorrow! grrrr

 

[ringo747]

I would make you wait until you get your results, pass and you get the Mac, fail and it goes back to Apple.

i wouldn't be very confident of ever seeing an apple in that case!

 

[ringo747]

were do you go to uni? or college?

The one near where you live!

 

[ringo747]

exams over and this is my first post from my MBP! Initial impressions are that it's an absolutely gorgeous piece of kit!

Pics to follow...

Jonny

 

[ringo747]

hope to get some pics up tomorrow but in the meantime iv got bootcamp set up and just installing windows. Up pops windows update with 66 updates to install! I really am not sure I want to be going back to this!

 

[ringo747]

no idea to be honest... just tried it and it worked. Cant imagine it'll really change the world too much either way lol. Gonna design new sig soon anyhow.

 

[ringo747]

Lol, i feel like a real criminal now.