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New convert to the dark side

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cooldaddybeck

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Jul 15, 2008
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So, I just dropped some bucks on a 17" Macbook Pro (2.5GHz, 2GB, 250GB) that will arrive on Thursday.

I'm passing my PC Notebook (HP dv8000, 17" 1.66/1/200) to the wife and going with the hardcore switchover.

I figure if I'm going to get into editing (FCP/Adobe) that I might as well do it right. Plus, I'll be even more trendy combining the MBP with my iPhone!
:p
 
Jurwin said:
Congrats, make sure you take your new mpb to starbucks or any other coffeeshop, you'll be even more trendy!
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The trifecta is complete! Would it be overkill to put a liberal political sticker on my MBP?
:D

All jokes aside, I can't wait for this to arrive. It's been my target for about a year now.
 
cooldaddybeck said:
So, I just dropped some bucks on a 17" Macbook Pro (2.5GHz, 2GB, 250GB) that will arrive on Thursday.

I'm passing my PC Notebook (HP dv8000, 17" 1.66/1/200) to the wife and going with the hardcore switchover.

I figure if I'm going to get into editing (FCP/Adobe) that I might as well do it right. Plus, I'll be even more trendy combining the MBP with my iPhone!
:p
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After some time on our side... you'll be calling the other side "the dark side". :)
 
Congratulations, enjoy your new Macbook Pro, and welcome.

Great friendly bunch on here (well, most of us :) ) - if you need help, shout.

When you get it, enjoy the moment of opening it, and don't panic if something goes wrong, keep calm.

Most likely all will go very well, and then you will kick yourself as to why you didn't switch any sooner. Happy days.
 
nazuk said:
Congratulations, enjoy your new Macbook Pro, and welcome.

Great friendly bunch on here (well, most of us :) ) - if you need help, shout.

When you get it, enjoy the moment of opening it, and don't panic if something goes wrong, keep calm.

Most likely all will go very well, and then you will kick yourself as to why you didn't switch any sooner. Happy days.
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OSX is close enough to *nix that I don't forsee any major issues. Plus I've worked on Macs in post integration projects so I'm a leg up already.

Any issues with ghosting a Mac HD if I wait to upgrade to 500Gb or 1TB?
 
cooldaddybeck said:
OSX is close enough to *nix that I don't forsee any major issues. Plus I've worked on Macs in post integration projects so I'm a leg up already.

Any issues with ghosting a Mac HD if I wait to upgrade to 500Gb or 1TB?
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lol.. why ghost when you can use Time Capsule??

should be no issues if your ghosting program can read HFS
 
LoL why bother to use ghost anymore~ There time machine to help you take care of it. You just need an external HD, or better yet get a Time capsule.

I guess it's just like many of us, been through all the upgrade/install nightmare from Windows, we'd trained to alway keep the fail-safe alarm on all time, we'll have to thank uncle Bill for the past training tho. hehe ;)

By the way, Congratz!
 
Everlast said:
LoL why bother to use ghost anymore~ There time machine to help you take care of it. You just need an external HD, or better yet get a Time capsule.

I guess it's just like many of us, been through all the upgrade/install nightmare from Windows, we'd trained to alway keep the fail-safe alarm on all time, we'll have to thank uncle Bill for the past training tho. hehe ;)

By the way, Congratz!
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I'm ghosting my pc notebook to a larger drive to maintain installed sw and settings. Do I need to do the same if I bump up to a 500GB drive In 3-6 months or will time capsule handle the sw on it's own?
 
cooldaddybeck said:
I'm ghosting my pc notebook to a larger drive to maintain installed sw and settings. Do I need to do the same if I bump up to a 500GB drive In 3-6 months or will time capsule handle the sw on it's own?
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im not aware of what SW stands for. but time capsule copies EVERYTHING over to the new drive. nothing is lost, everything looks the same, everything functions the same.
 
DoFoT9 said:
im not aware of what SW stands for. but time capsule copies EVERYTHING over to the new drive. nothing is lost, everything looks the same, everything functions the same.
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He coming from Windows, just copying the files does not maintain his software (SW) environment under Windows. I use Superduper to fully clone my Mac hard drives. I've seen people use disk utility and I understand there is a way to get this working with time machine as well. I just like how simple superduper is. I've even successfully cloned the system while active (instead of my normal, boot from another disk and run superduper).

Cheers,
 
panzer06 said:
He coming from Windows, just copying the files does not maintain his software (SW) environment under Windows. I use Superduper to fully clone my Mac hard drives. I've seen people use disk utility and I understand there is a way to get this working with time machine as well. I just like how simple superduper is. I've even successfully cloned the system while active (instead of my normal, boot from another disk and run superduper).

Cheers,
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What he said. Windoze takes serious effort to be able to recover fully without reinstalling all of the software (SW) you have added and tweaked to your liking. That's where ghost comes in. If Mac has a built-in (or tweakable built-in) that can manage that, then I'll be that much happier. :0)
 
cooldaddybeck said:
What he said. Windoze takes serious effort to be able to recover fully without reinstalling all of the software (SW) you have added and tweaked to your liking. That's where ghost comes in. If Mac has a built-in (or tweakable built-in) that can manage that, then I'll be that much happier. :0)
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Time Machine can create a back up of your entire drive and restore if when needed. The back up can also be accessed to restore erased files and such.
 
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