OSX Tips and Tricks

MaxPower · 9 Nov 2006 at 20:40

I recieved a macbook just a few days ago, no ribbing please for missing out on the C2Ds by a couple of days :mad:

which is a kick in the nads. I thought macbook pros were C2D and macbooks were CD, if I had known a change was brewing I would have waited.

However on a happier note everything feels a lot smoother than winblows, I have discovered some handy things myself and got told about the 2 finger scrolling technique. I was wondering are there any other features I should know about that will be handy. I should mention I have read the sticky and grabbed some of the apps. Im not one for R-ingTFM.

Thanks any tips or components I should get would be excellent.

MaxPower · 10 Nov 2006 at 19:06

Hamish said:
Cool thing:

Press ctrl + mousewheel up

or Crtl + alt + command + 8

Yeah thats what Im talking about

Im now tempted to return this but I dont want to be without one now

MaxPower · 11 Nov 2006 at 12:56

@home said:
Anyhow i well happy with Macbook Core duo. I even pu XP On & its working a treat.

Good Luck To anyone who taking theres back

Ditto.

I have decided not to go through the process of even attempting to return it I am happy that it does what I want it to do and by the looks of it my memory is going to be the bottleneck I only have 512mb, I may upgrade this in the future but for now I am very happy

MaxPower · 13 Nov 2006 at 19:48

I was

at how amazingly simple and effective parallels was. I installed with the trial and it was up and running in about 30mins quicker than installing windows. And it runs fast, a bit of slowdown because I have only got 512mb ram but still very usable. I can believe how well it works.

Just 1 question: whats the best method for transfering files from osx to the windows vm?

MaxPower · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:38

EVH said:
Parallel noob question:

My understanding of Parallels is a program which launches XP inside of OS X, but is only run when you decide??

Is this right, or does it run in the background all the time? is that an option?

You can tell it to run on startup, but it is primarily run on demand. Im still a bit of a noob but it seems very good. Dont know if I can justify a purchase just yet though.