Hullo all,
I have been a proud macbook pro owner for 8 days.
In the last nearly 25 years (I am 35 now) I have dabbled with nearly every OS.
The filing system on my BBC with floppy drives. The commodore c64 disk operating system, the best thing about which was getting the stepper motor to play god save the queen. Owning a ZX Spectrum with an interface 1 which let me use micro drive 'cartridges' (actually just a stupidly fast tape-drive with no random access and a manufacturing process which put all the casting sprue inside the case!) In my early IBM PCs days I used Dos, naturally. That awful intel thing whose name eludes me OS2 perhaps?, windows from the dark days of windows 1 (wasn't that a joke), the horror of the Atari STs TOS (what an apposite name), the beauty of workbench and then magic workbench on my treasured amigas;- 1000, 2000, 500,600, 1200, and my homemade, built into a tower 1200 using a white 4000 keyboard (gosh de, and then re-soldering all the connections to use the zorro slot from the slide on the front of my tower was a nightmare!), I even tried and rather liked BeOS.
But I must admit one of my favourite OSs was that which I used on my Amiga Amaxx emulator (I still recall the nightmare problems involved in finding the 128k mac roms to get amaxx to work, then having to creep into my local college in the dead of night to snaffle finder and the OS onto 3.5 inch floppies. Oh yes then imagine my joy when i found that mac floppies worked in a way utterly dissimilar to amiga floppies so I have to buy an extortionate Mac flopy drive, with no eject button).
I only tried amaxx because years ago I undertook an USCD pascal OU course and they insisted on Mac ownership, mind you after buying the emulator hardware, the 128k roms, creeping about getting the OS, and then buying an external mac 3.5inch drive I bet a 2nd hand mac would have ben cheaper. But it was that experience made me love Macs.
Oh I also forgot the 'joys' of using CPM on my CPC6128 amstrad (with a disc drive which not only used the unheard of 3inch disks, but to access the reverse the disk had to be ejected and then physically turned over!)
I have also played with Linux on my playstation3.
Anyhoo, the point Iam trying to make is that Iam not a computer or operating system new boy.
But OSX is the best thing I have ever clapped eyes upon, I doubt I need to tell people here how great it is, but after practically zero mac os experience Iam now using my MBP like after a pro after 8 days.
So if I say OSX is great, it really is!
BUt, after that huge amount of persiflage I have a few questions, please.
IS the software my mac came with-iWork, and iLIfe registered to my name and details like my mac is?
I looked my MBP up on apples site which told me that my MBP is registered to me, but then I couldn't ascertain how to check software license ownership.
I tried to register them but I need some kind of serial key, but despite being told where to find the keys the disc wallets have no number upon them.
How could I find out if they are registered to me?
And I have a few other new mac user questions please.
Is there no way to delete to the right of the cursor, like the delete key on PCs?
How can I delete one item from my history?
I have been messing about with using my Mac as a PC.
I used boot-camp to install win to a win partition, but now i learned about parallels. Can I use my boot camp install as a parallels' install, or must I start all over again?
Perhaps by deleting the boot camp partition and then starting afresh with parallels?
ALSo my one complaint is iTunes motion picture playback.
I bought Descent 2 ad rented house of the devil and they both play splendidly. But then I bought the old Moonraker bond film, to say the vocal track is hard to listen to is putting it mildly.
The effects tracks are fine but I simply cannot hear what the actors are saying. I have used the EQ to up everything, but it is stil practically silent.
Iam not saying that this is an iTunes problem per se, but it is ultimately apples problem. Apple took a sum of money of me, more money in fact than if I had bought the film from a supermarket on DVD, so apple owe me a working product.
Is there a way to easily fix it, or how does one get a itunes refund. I am sure I am legally entitled to my money back as the product sold fails to fulfil it's fitness for purpose. After all what use is a motion picture with inaudible dialogue.
Thanks for your time
doris
I have been a proud macbook pro owner for 8 days.
In the last nearly 25 years (I am 35 now) I have dabbled with nearly every OS.
The filing system on my BBC with floppy drives. The commodore c64 disk operating system, the best thing about which was getting the stepper motor to play god save the queen. Owning a ZX Spectrum with an interface 1 which let me use micro drive 'cartridges' (actually just a stupidly fast tape-drive with no random access and a manufacturing process which put all the casting sprue inside the case!) In my early IBM PCs days I used Dos, naturally. That awful intel thing whose name eludes me OS2 perhaps?, windows from the dark days of windows 1 (wasn't that a joke), the horror of the Atari STs TOS (what an apposite name), the beauty of workbench and then magic workbench on my treasured amigas;- 1000, 2000, 500,600, 1200, and my homemade, built into a tower 1200 using a white 4000 keyboard (gosh de, and then re-soldering all the connections to use the zorro slot from the slide on the front of my tower was a nightmare!), I even tried and rather liked BeOS.
But I must admit one of my favourite OSs was that which I used on my Amiga Amaxx emulator (I still recall the nightmare problems involved in finding the 128k mac roms to get amaxx to work, then having to creep into my local college in the dead of night to snaffle finder and the OS onto 3.5 inch floppies. Oh yes then imagine my joy when i found that mac floppies worked in a way utterly dissimilar to amiga floppies so I have to buy an extortionate Mac flopy drive, with no eject button).
I only tried amaxx because years ago I undertook an USCD pascal OU course and they insisted on Mac ownership, mind you after buying the emulator hardware, the 128k roms, creeping about getting the OS, and then buying an external mac 3.5inch drive I bet a 2nd hand mac would have ben cheaper. But it was that experience made me love Macs.
Oh I also forgot the 'joys' of using CPM on my CPC6128 amstrad (with a disc drive which not only used the unheard of 3inch disks, but to access the reverse the disk had to be ejected and then physically turned over!)
I have also played with Linux on my playstation3.
Anyhoo, the point Iam trying to make is that Iam not a computer or operating system new boy.
But OSX is the best thing I have ever clapped eyes upon, I doubt I need to tell people here how great it is, but after practically zero mac os experience Iam now using my MBP like after a pro after 8 days.
So if I say OSX is great, it really is!
BUt, after that huge amount of persiflage I have a few questions, please.
IS the software my mac came with-iWork, and iLIfe registered to my name and details like my mac is?
I looked my MBP up on apples site which told me that my MBP is registered to me, but then I couldn't ascertain how to check software license ownership.
I tried to register them but I need some kind of serial key, but despite being told where to find the keys the disc wallets have no number upon them.
How could I find out if they are registered to me?
And I have a few other new mac user questions please.
Is there no way to delete to the right of the cursor, like the delete key on PCs?
How can I delete one item from my history?
I have been messing about with using my Mac as a PC.
I used boot-camp to install win to a win partition, but now i learned about parallels. Can I use my boot camp install as a parallels' install, or must I start all over again?
Perhaps by deleting the boot camp partition and then starting afresh with parallels?
ALSo my one complaint is iTunes motion picture playback.
I bought Descent 2 ad rented house of the devil and they both play splendidly. But then I bought the old Moonraker bond film, to say the vocal track is hard to listen to is putting it mildly.
The effects tracks are fine but I simply cannot hear what the actors are saying. I have used the EQ to up everything, but it is stil practically silent.
Iam not saying that this is an iTunes problem per se, but it is ultimately apples problem. Apple took a sum of money of me, more money in fact than if I had bought the film from a supermarket on DVD, so apple owe me a working product.
Is there a way to easily fix it, or how does one get a itunes refund. I am sure I am legally entitled to my money back as the product sold fails to fulfil it's fitness for purpose. After all what use is a motion picture with inaudible dialogue.
Thanks for your time
doris