I got a 15" macbook with retina display and 256 gig of storage.

This is my first mac, I have been windows since there was windows. What is the coolest thing, best app, neatest trick or shortcut, etc.? I used it for a few hours last night and the change really isn't that bad. Once you get the layout and menu functionality it isn't hard to navigate which I was surprised about because I haven't ever used a mac for more than a few minutes.

Hit me up.

11/27/2012 1:26:52 PM

11/27/2012 1:32:08 PM

Welcome to the Internet.

11/27/2012 1:33:48 PM

cool story bro

the coolest of the cool i tell ya

11/27/2012 1:36:29 PM

^^^ got that with it. Haven't installed yet.

11/27/2012 1:55:30 PM

i really like the hand gesture things. took about a week to get used to, but now i can't do without them.

11/27/2012 2:20:21 PM

http://bestmacsoftware.org/
http://opensourcemac.org/
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/30-best-free-mac-programs-to-download-933031

[Edited on November 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM. Reason : ....]

11/27/2012 2:23:42 PM

You missed it.

The last two OS updates have been terrible, bloated, Windows-like crap.

The age of Macs being cool and superior is over.

Sell it while you can and get a Windows machine.

11/27/2012 2:46:34 PM

I like my fucking 11" MacBook Air.

11/27/2012 2:49:39 PM

Quote :

"The age of Macs being cool and superior is overnever existed."

11/27/2012 3:22:03 PM

11/27/2012 6:22:28 PM

I have the 15" macbook pro (1yr old)....haven't upgraded my OS yet (woops) so I've missed the past 2 updates

But I do catch myself trying to do all the hand gesture things when I'm at work on my pc...bad habit bro

[Edited on November 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM. Reason : yeah I didn't give you app ideas...I don't care]

11/27/2012 6:29:51 PM

wow 256 gig of storage

11/27/2012 6:30:09 PM

Try the five finger converging gesture to minimize all windows, the opposite will maximize all windows. Also, use the pinch gesture to resize windows

11/27/2012 7:56:12 PM

Oh... I'm sorry

11/27/2012 8:30:02 PM

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11/27/2012 8:50:35 PM

Use boot camp.

To me, Mac OS X 10.6 was the greatest Mac OS ever. It lacked the bloat, fully 64-bit, fast and fully featured.

But there's really not much you can do on a Mac that you couldn't previously do on Windows. I love my 5 year old Macbook Pro and my 1 year old Hackintosh, all running 10.8. My next laptop will likely be a Macbook Air or a Retina Macbook Pro 13" (probably the Macbook Air 11.6"). My currently most used laptop (Samsung Princeton w/ 1.3 ghz Core i3 Sandy Bridge w/ 256 gb SSD) is more than fast enough for my laptop needs and the current generation of Macbook Airs/Windows Ultrabooks don't offer much more than what I currently have. I don't really want to go larger than what I have (no need for anything bigger/faster).

11/27/2012 9:42:14 PM

I'm not an apple fanboy, but 256 isn't bad if its solid state.

If not, lol at the massive storage.

11/27/2012 9:42:32 PM

Get Perian; I know it's old now but it makes the native QuickTime program and plugins work with more video formats: http://perian.org/

Also, for those times when you have a problem with your Mac and whatever forum you post to recommends changing some config files, use this text-editor to do it (TextEdit isn't powerful enough for serious search-replace and sorting operations and the like): http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

11/28/2012 12:57:59 AM

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11/28/2012 8:58:39 AM

i am digging the gestures

11/28/2012 2:54:16 PM

Macs are great for art fag shit, audio recording & womans work type shit. Macs are also great developmentally for kids.
PCs are great for autocad, boring ass math/coding shit and general (line + circle)x10000000 activities. PCs are also great for basement dwellers


however, android phones are better than iphones in every scenario

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

11/28/2012 2:58:59 PM

Thought this thread was about amac884

11/28/2012 3:13:33 PM

^wrong thread, bro.

11/29/2012 4:34:46 PM