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MagicBoy said:
I'll plead the fifth on the early questions. That and your posting style makes my head hurt!

Office for Mac doesn't includes Access. It's not 1:1 on features and the interface is different to the Windows versions. If you need to run Windows Office, then I'd advise to run it via a virtualisation product.
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Your not the first person to say that :L Sorry i don't understand what it is about my posting style? Please let me know what is wrong so i can at least try to rectify it.

Thanks
Harry
 
Fallen god said:
I switch around this time last year to OSX mostly since I want a unix system with photoshop and other apps I need for work.

1) Took me roughly 2 months to get used too it, some things where really annoying, like the keyboard being different @ vs " was a huge pain point for a developer that uses " 2104120412 times a day for strings :(. But now I can't go back to anything else and I love how OSX work, still hate some of the keyboard choices but meh XD.

2) Yes. This is due to a lot of things, spaces is great I love them on linux love them on OSX, I can easily spread work out and never need too alt tab. Short cuts are awesome, every app I've used uses cmd + , for settings, cmd + w to close a window, cmd + q to quit an app etc etc. Once you learn the hotkeys your life becomes so much better.

3) You have access to VLC so it does everything the windows version does, I also use MPlayerX which has no issues with file types but still lacks features like playlist which is key on a Friday night when me and the misses catch up on the weeks shows. I also watch a lot of Anime with 10bit etc etc without any issue.

Dont use Office for anything.
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Thanks for the response :) yeah ive seen a video now about all of the short cuts ect seems very intuitive
 
harry5522 said:
Thanks for the response :) yeah ive seen a video now about all of the short cuts ect seems very intuitive
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Yeah, everything is sort of though out, want to hide your current window cmd + h (hide), want to hide your current window on windows good luck. Even alt+f4 is a legacy command from the server days (alt+f4 maps to F15 which on the old school servers closed your current app and returned you to the homescreen).
 
42zx said:
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Thats a really nice table. May I ask where you get it from?
 
I've decided to go retro with my Apple HW now Apple haev gimped the Mac Mini.

Scooped a 2006 (:D) Mac Pro that work were chucking out, upgraded to 8 cores, 24GB RAM, Wifi+BT, SSD + 2x 1TB HDDs in RAID and a Geforce 660. It's twice the speed CPU wise of the 2011 Mac Mini it replaced (dread to think what the power consumption is mind lol) and it even runs Yosemite now. Considering it's 8+ years old, it absolutely flies along.
 
MagicBoy said:
I thought you needed a 3,1 (2008?) to run Yosemite?
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Before replying, I checked the readme at the top of the forum (after all I don't want to get in the brown stuff on this one!):

Any threads or posts in here discussing how to do anything that is against Apple's EULA will be removed and repeat offenders will be punished suitably.

These type of posts include:

  • Installing OS X on a PC (hackintosh)
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The installation of Yosemite on old Apple hardware admittedly does push the limits of Apple's EULA agreement but that states:

The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not to,
install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.
Unless otherwise permitted by the terms of this License: (i) only one user may use the Apple Software at a
time, and (ii) you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be run or used by
multiple computers at the same time. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute or sublicense the Apple
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So it's still effectively within the terms of the agreement, but before discussing I'd rather check with a mod before proceeding.

Thanks
 
randal said:
I've decided to go retro with my Apple HW now Apple haev gimped the Mac Mini.

Scooped a 2006 (:D) Mac Pro that work were chucking out, upgraded to 8 cores, 24GB RAM, Wifi+BT, SSD + 2x 1TB HDDs in RAID and a Geforce 660. It's twice the speed CPU wise of the 2011 Mac Mini it replaced (dread to think what the power consumption is mind lol) and it even runs Yosemite now. Considering it's 8+ years old, it absolutely flies along.
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Pics of set-up needed! Do like the old Mac Pro towers.
Picked up the competing 8 Core Dell 490 from the scrap pile at my work this week, surprised how quick those Xeon 5355s are, given the age. Power efficiency though... Not their strong point... :(
 
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