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MBP on FedEx Truck

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LifeCerealRocks

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Jul 12, 2008
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Alright guys, my MBP is in the city of Houston on a Fed Ex truck (meaning it's bound to be here any minute) what should I do the first time (i.e. calibrate battery, and what not) I boot up? Also (I've asked this before, but I can't find the thread) any [free] sweet apps I should d/l? Thanks guys, I can hardly contain my excitement :D
 
First thing I did was re-install and removed all the languages and other crap I didn't need/want.
 
First thing, plug in the AC ;)

Here's a list of free stuff I use:
iStat Pro - a helpful dashboard widget.
coconutBattery - is a great battery app.
Seashore - a lesser Photoshop better MSPaint program
Sentui - gets songs from iPods to you MBP
MacTheRipper - rips DVDs
iSquit - the free version of VirtualHub, it converts files so your iPod could read it
Transmission - Bittorrent client
 
First things first I would be looking over the exterior looking for imperfections and then when turning on looking for bad pixels on the screen. Second I would be removing language packets from the install. Pop your OS X disc in and reinstall it. Congratulations on your purchase.
 
What I did when I first got my MacBook Pro was make sure everything was working (all of the hardware features, etc) under the default system software installation, and then laid down a new Mac OS X 10.5 installation using erase and install, making sure to uncheck the printer drivers and translations that I did not need.
 
mynameisshawn said:
First thing, plug in the AC ;)

Here's a list of free stuff I use:
iStat Pro - a helpful dashboard widget.
coconutBattery - is a great battery app.
Seashore - a lesser Photoshop better MSPaint program
Sentui - gets songs from iPods to you MBP
MacTheRipper - rips DVDs
iSquit - the free version of VirtualHub, it converts files so your iPod could read it
Transmission - Bittorrent client
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Sweet, all of those were really awesome. Thanks.
 
I agree with the apps. Not sure I think it's necessary to wipe/reinstall on a brand new system. I guess I can some some small advantages of not having the additional drivers and language files, but I doubt it's going to make your system run any faster, or that you'll yield significant disk space from not having them on...MHO...
 
I've got a software question,

I was wondering if there's a mac version of powerIso (or something similar) and are there any free video file converters out there? Thanks
 
For video watching, Flip4Mac and Perian comes to mind. Also Office suite (NeoOffice).

Have fun...
 
Alright, so I've noticed one minute defect. Near where the current charge of the battery there's a slight light blue smudge, is this normal? I mean I don't really care, but I was wondering if this could possibly lead to something more severe? Thanks guys, all of you have been really helpful.
 
If you don't want to reinstall OSX, download and install Monolingual (http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/), a small application that deletes unused language packs. It won't help with getting rid of unnecessary printer drivers, but it does free up TONS of space and you won't need to reinstall the operating system.
 
Hey guys is there anything equivalent to spyware/adware for Macs? I just noticed that a good portion of my memory is being used up but I'm only running firefox...seems kind of odd.
 
Check Activity Monitor

LifeCerealRocks said:
I just noticed that a good portion of my memory is being used up but I'm only running firefox...seems kind of odd.
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Could it be Spotlight indexing? This is a one time thing on a new install. Click on the spotlight icon and see if it says "indexing". Or open Activity Monitor and sort by CPU usage. I think the Spotlight process is named 'mds". Anyway you will be able to identify the culprit that way.

BTW nobody mentioned the migration process...on a clean system that utility is extremely helpful to move apps and stuff from another unit.
 
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