Pulled the trigger on a new black macbook!

I am glad you finally came to the light! Many happy hours Mac-ing to you and congrats - you won't be sorry.

Remember, no matter what - stay w. the OS. I've seen wanna-converts who have dual systems relapse into Windowdom. The familiar won't teach you the new.

I still have my XP hooked up. We've spent a lot of time together finding drivers. It was a labor of love.

Now with my black Mac I finally have time to use the goddamn programs. I don't know anyone with a Mac in my circle of friends, because there are so many haters. I'm so glad I got one.

I'm a musician and when I plug things in to start a recording and it says "Would you like to use this?". I get a fuzzy feelin.

In one year I think I had one issue. I can't even remember what it was if that makes you feel better.

Have fun with it. Do your homework so it will work for your lifestyle.

Here's a start. http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/06/top-100-mac-apps/

crossingover said:

In Sept. 2007 I posted on these forums asking you guys for advice buying my first mac. Leopard still hadn't been released so I decided to wait.

I played around with osx86 and really liked the OS, but it was so buggy I needed the real thing to really enjoy it.

Well now that the Macbooks have been updated and Amazon has a $100 rebate I decided to go for it.

My new 2.4Ghz black macbook will arrive this thursday! I'm also going to stick in 4GB of G.Skill Ram and max it out

..And this is coming from a life-long windows user, who HATED apple !!!

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Not sure why you hated apple BUT, I can tell you that after 25 years or so of building and using PC's I switched to a Mac a little over 2 years ago and till today I do not EVER regret doing so!

In fact just yesterday I got my Macbook Black Refurb and I can tell you that you will LOVE it. Have fun and enjoy your new MacBook!

Congratulations on your new MacBook and becoming a Mac user. I am expecting my black MacBook tomorrow...

Enjoy the Mac! I love my white one, but I may get a black one eventually.

crossingover said:

It's here!!!! At first I was a bit worried because the amazon box was really banged up and I saw the ups guy just throw it down when he reached my frontdoor, but the apple box was unharmed and everything is PERFECT!!

I love the simplicity of the macbook its AMAZING!

I had it up in running in less than 5 minutes.

I'm typing this from my new macbook right now and I love the feel of the keyboard!

I just installed firefox -- just drag and drop!? so easy!

Macbook is blazing fast! and thats with the standard 2GB

Came with a fujitsu hdd, pretty quiet

<-- i'm a happy customer/convert

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That's GREAT! Good for you! Now have a blast with it! I know I am with mine--)))

crossingover said:

In Sept. 2007 I posted on these forums asking you guys for advice buying my first mac. Leopard still hadn't been released so I decided to wait.

I played around with osx86 and really liked the OS, but it was so buggy I needed the real thing to really enjoy it.

Well now that the Macbooks have been updated and Amazon has a $100 rebate I decided to go for it.

My new 2.4Ghz black macbook will arrive this thursday! I'm also going to stick in 4GB of G.Skill Ram and max it out

..And this is coming from a life-long windows user, who HATED apple !!!

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You shot your MacBook??? OMG!

Just kidding. The title of the thread is funny!

But Congratulations!

crossingover said:

In Sept. 2007 I posted on these forums asking you guys for advice buying my first mac. Leopard still hadn't been released so I decided to wait.

I played around with osx86 and really liked the OS, but it was so buggy I needed the real thing to really enjoy it.

Well now that the Macbooks have been updated and Amazon has a $100 rebate I decided to go for it.

My new 2.4Ghz black macbook will arrive this thursday! I'm also going to stick in 4GB of G.Skill Ram and max it out

..And this is coming from a life-long windows user, who HATED apple !!!

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Welcome. I hope you will be as surprised and happy as I was and am.