First time mac owner as of today. MBP 13 i5

[rossmadden]

Hi all.

I bought my first Mac today, the i5 13" Pro.

I love it so far, the battery life is amazing compared to the windows notebook that i've upgraded from.
It's whisper quiet, even though i've been multi tasking quite a lot today whilst trying out my new toy.
The back lit keyboard is brilliant. Being able to type as fast as normal in very low light is something I don't think I will ever go back to not having.

Though I haven't done anything really intensive, the laptop has remained stone cold and I have barely heard it.

Anyway, I'm very pleased with it, but I'm still finding my way around with an OS that I have never used before. I was wondering about any useful apps. I've seen on these forums things like istat and a program that controls the fan?

Anyway, like I said, I'm very happy.

Cheers, Ross.

(p.s. i bought it from an apple reseller under a buy now pay 6 months later option. They gave me a normal education discount [I'm a student] and sadly not the HE discount. However the salesman made a typo and entered £393 instead of £939, if I didnt show my confusing to it, he wouldnt have noticed and I would have had a brand new macbook pro for £393/$675. shame i opened my mouth).

 

[trent0n]

if you want to hear it...play a couple HD videos at the same time....it gets loud! ive got the same computer.

 

[elpmas]

There are tons of threads like this. Mroogle it, it'll probably give you a variety of apps to use :}

This is what I have when I started

iStat Pro
BetterTouchTool
smcFanControl
LittleSnitch
Parallels
Senuti
CleanMyMac
Apptivate
BashFlash

Hope these were useful

 

[rossmadden]

There are tons of threads like this. Mroogle it, it'll probably give you a variety of apps to use :}

This is what I have when I started

iStat Pro
BetterTouchTool
smcFanControl
LittleSnitch
Parallels
Senuti
CleanMyMac
Apptivate
BashFlash

Hope these were useful

Yeah i know i should have mroogle thing, but I wanted to tell my story aswell , sorry.

but yeah, this is very helpful, thank you very much .

 

[^^BIGMac]

Congratulations. Enjoy your new mac!

 

[aznguyen316]

Congrats on hopping over to OSX. Seems like a lot of people are converting. Is it b/c Apple has the only SB laptops shipping also? It pays to be ahead of the curve!

 

[elpmas]

Yeah i know i should have mroogle thing, but I wanted to tell my story aswell , sorry.

but yeah, this is very helpful, thank you very much .

I wanted to get to it before someone else who is less than nice came in

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Congratulations and enjoy your MBP and welcome to the world of Mac. I doubt you'll (ever want to) change back. I "switched" in 2008, and while I have had to use Windows in work situations since then, when given a choice about what to use, there is no argument.

Re apps, the very first one I bought was Office for Mac; my entire work universe uses Word, and doing without it was simply not possible. FWIW, I also invested in Applecare for both of my Apple computers (MBP and MBA), and consider it money well-spent.

Cheers and good luck

 

[rossmadden]

Congratulations and enjoy your MBP and welcome to the world of Mac. I doubt you'll (ever want to) change back. I "switched" in 2008, and while I have had to use Windows in work situations since then, when given a choice about what to use, there is no argument.

Re apps, the very first one I bought was Office for Mac; my entire work universe uses Word, and doing without it was simply not possible. FWIW, I also invested in Applecare for both of my Apple computers (MBP and MBA), and consider it money well-spent.

Cheers and good luck

Yeah I will invest in Office, always thought it was a plus of using Windows.

I'll probably buy the Apple care in 10/11 months time when the first year is near enough up.

I, like you have to use windows in university still, I have no qualms with that, it is what it is and I'm not a windows hater, but I'm sure when I stick my teeth in to OSX (especially lion) i'll never want to go back.

thanks

 

[ZombieZakk]

Yeah I will invest in Office, always thought it was a plus of using Windows.

I'll probably buy the Apple care in 10/11 months time when the first year is near enough up.

I, like you have to use windows in university still, I have no qualms with that, it is what it is and I'm not a windows hater, but I'm sure when I stick my teeth in to OSX (especially lion) i'll never want to go back.

thanks

Congrats!

One thing you might want to do is make sure you download firefox i love and use safari for all my browsing but sometimes university programs or sites wont format correctly so i use firefox for homework.

office for mac is so much better than iwork apple software in media rules but microsoft still does office applications the best.