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Old 06-27-2006   #1 (permalink)
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I just bought a macbook

I received my new macbook on the 16th this month, it's spiffy. I got in on the first batch of the new intel machines, and they run pretty cool to my surprise. It's the middle machine if you look at the apple store, a 2ghz proc with 512MB of ram. Anyone else have one of these, or an ibook or something that someone wants to comment on how cool macs are?
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I love the hardware, and I'm pretty impressed with the software. I'm not the type that tries to make my linux desktop look like an OS X one, but I do quite like it. Nice smooth and quick boot is the only thing I'm jealous of... (I have 600GB of storage so the filesystem check for Reiser can take about 7-8 seconds alone).
Well there'll be no streaming wmv, so no compfused.com for you but don't forget flip4mac, mplayer and hey songbird released a Mac version today if you don't fancy iTunes.
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I bought a MacBook Pro a few months ago and I've been very happy with it. I assume by your 512MB of RAM you bought a regular MacBook. Black or white?
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oops, forgot to specify. It's just a macbook, no pro. My dad got freaked out about how hot the pro gets, but it only gets hot (really hot) on the outside because it dissipates (sp) heat through its alluminum case. So I went with the middle white macbook, I didn't feel like paying 300 more dollars for 20 more GB's of hdd space and a black case.

I have Flip4Mac but it took a bit of work. An intel mac version has not yet been released so you must download it and then install through rosetta. Not too bad though. For some reason I cannot stream windows media so if I'm on ebaums world or something I just save it to my home dir. and play it using vlc or something. Windows Media Player 9 for mac has an odd extension like *stix (?) I'm only use to *.dmg at the moment but I'll google it up and figure it out.
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I don't stream things other than the occasional movie trailer, and they're usually Quicktime format, so I can't really help you there. There are a pretty good collection of Universal apps out there though. Look around.
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Found my answer. Apparently .sitx is a compressed format, now I'm off to download/install a program that will decompress it.
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Hah, yeah: .sitx is StuffIt! Expander: you can download it off the Apple downloads page. Don't worry: I had to go into the Apple Store to ask that question .

Yeah, I have a MacBook Pro, and I'm currently <3'ing it a lot. I like a number of the apps, and it's also nice to have a machine that can do streaming video easily . I can't wait for Flip4Mac to come out for it: WMP blows chunks (but we all already knew that).

Yeah: it's also my first time having two computers that I control (my family keeps their computers far out of my reach), so I can play with SSH, which makes me so happy. You have no idea.

And, of course, it's a sexy beast. I even love the trackpad: it's huge, and the two-touch scroll thing just rocks.

So yeah. \m/
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