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-eVolcre
Are you a masochist or something?
Originally posted by eVolcre
i hope I haven't built it up so much that I am let down
This, I strongly doubt.
Do yourself a favor, enjoy the opening, heck, take pictures at every stage. The "niceness" of Apple extends to the packaging as well.
If you take those pics, please post 'em. Either on this site, or on your own. I'd love to relive my opening vicariously...
Bond, James Bond
A worthy companion to 007 in the window. Powerbook sneaks into it's future home ...
A comment from a famil member ....
I haven't opened it yet. for the first tme ever, I'm actually in awe of a CASE. Sheesh.
The creatures on my desk have no idea what's behind them yet ...
A worthy companion to 007 in the window. Powerbook sneaks into it's future home ...
A comment from a famil member ....
I haven't opened it yet. for the first tme ever, I'm actually in awe of a CASE. Sheesh.
The creatures on my desk have no idea what's behind them yet ...
evolcre
Patrick,
The eVolcre nickname ....
I am an exec at a company related to Apple ... remotely. If 'i' gives you the Apple connection the 'e' gives you my company.
the volcre part ... evolution creation. I was thinking of Windos vs Mac. WIndows evolved after stealing from Apple, Apple created.
So ... eVolcre. Sounds kewl as well.
OK, back to the strip tease. lol
Patrick,
The eVolcre nickname ....
I am an exec at a company related to Apple ... remotely
. If 'i' gives you the Apple connection the 'e' gives you my company.the volcre part ... evolution creation. I was thinking of Windos vs Mac. WIndows evolved after stealing from Apple, Apple created.
So ... eVolcre. Sounds kewl as well.
OK, back to the strip tease. lol
It's OUT
Pictures really didn't do this machine justice. It is infinitely sexier than I thought.I mean, it is aluminum all over. Beautiful. I was expecting a Ti/iBook hybrid , not a sexy all silver machine.
I was surprised by the weight. Thought it would be lighter than it is. All the posts raving about how light it is I suppose. All relative, my T23 is a fairly light WinTop so I wasn't as overawed.
The looks are amazing. The keyboard looks FANTASTIC.
I took it out and put it back in the box just for now since I can't play with it until tonight.
I'll go through and follow advice as givenin this thread. My first step is to get online so I can post from Safari. *yay*
Seond step , download the fish screensaver and make it my desktop image for a wow effect.
Here's me cheesing away ...
Next, install my peripherals, keyboard, scanner, webcam and printer ... so I have a full system set up and then I begin playing for real ..
Pictures really didn't do this machine justice. It is infinitely sexier than I thought.I mean, it is aluminum all over. Beautiful. I was expecting a Ti/iBook hybrid , not a sexy all silver machine.
I was surprised by the weight. Thought it would be lighter than it is. All the posts raving about how light it is I suppose. All relative, my T23 is a fairly light WinTop so I wasn't as overawed.
The looks are amazing. The keyboard looks FANTASTIC.
I took it out and put it back in the box just for now since I can't play with it until tonight.
I'll go through and follow advice as givenin this thread. My first step is to get online so I can post from Safari. *yay*
Seond step , download the fish screensaver and make it my desktop image for a wow effect.
Here's me cheesing away ...
Next, install my peripherals, keyboard, scanner, webcam and printer ... so I have a full system set up and then I begin playing for real ..
Yep, your right. I think you are over reacting just a wee little bit. It's just a computer. ( I can hear the sudden gasp from everyone ) You sound like your wife is about to give birth to your first child. I know what it is like to get a new Mac, I just got a new Power Mac G4 1 ghz FW 800 last month. It was fun pulling it out of the box and setting it up! But I didn't take pictures of it. It sounds like you can afford a lot of toys, Why didn't you get the 17in powerbook? Maybe that would have caused you to have a heart attack from the excitment. Welcome to the Mac Community, now go and recruit more for our cause. No hard feelings right?
egads!
posting on a site called Macrumors forces you to overlook ANY and ALL overreaction from us noobies. Now .... ask me for more pics since I know you're dying to see them.LOL
NO offense taken. I was surpised to be so excited myself.Imean, I do have some cool 'toys' and was totally blase about this. Patrick set me off, and then I saw the black box it came in and went bonkers. So ... you get the Apple stripshow.
LOL again.
Well, afford and toys don't go together I don't think. Toys mean they're not 'necessities'. Why not the 17 inch? I think it's overkill. Really ...I mean it's not about how expensive the 'toy' is but how you plan on playing with it ...
The 12" is my portable , do everything machine. I have a 20" LCD coming in for use as a 'home desktop'. A laptop portable ... ius exactly that .... should fit on my lap and be portable.
The 12" is PERFECT for my needs. A subcompact yet full featured workhorse that I can keep with me at all times. Combine this with a bluetooth T68i and it really becomes a superb machine to replace (add I guess) to my T23.
The only reason I can see myself using a 17"is if I have a customer presentation or if I need a portable desktop. Just can't see me lugging around a monsterous 17" laptop. True overkill.
If the screen on my laptop is too small, I add a outboard LCD. If the power is not enough, I add a powermac and relegate the 12" to email/dial in/ portable machine which, paired with aprojector is still perfect for cusotmer calls.
Recruit for the cause? well , that's the reason I'm tryin gto get a great wow factor going. I work for IBM and when I walk into my office on Monday with an APPL laptop, I need enough ammo and knowledge to back this decision up.
The way I feel about women these days .... I'd rather make th powerbook my mate.
posting on a site called Macrumors forces you to overlook ANY and ALL overreaction from us noobies. Now .... ask me for more pics since I know you're dying to see them.LOL
NO offense taken. I was surpised to be so excited myself.Imean, I do have some cool 'toys' and was totally blase about this. Patrick set me off, and then I saw the black box it came in and went bonkers. So ... you get the Apple stripshow.
LOL again.
Well, afford and toys don't go together I don't think. Toys mean they're not 'necessities'. Why not the 17 inch? I think it's overkill. Really ...I mean it's not about how expensive the 'toy' is but how you plan on playing with it ...
The 12" is my portable , do everything machine. I have a 20" LCD coming in for use as a 'home desktop'. A laptop portable ... ius exactly that .... should fit on my lap and be portable.
The 12" is PERFECT for my needs. A subcompact yet full featured workhorse that I can keep with me at all times. Combine this with a bluetooth T68i and it really becomes a superb machine to replace (add I guess) to my T23.
The only reason I can see myself using a 17"is if I have a customer presentation or if I need a portable desktop. Just can't see me lugging around a monsterous 17" laptop. True overkill.
If the screen on my laptop is too small, I add a outboard LCD. If the power is not enough, I add a powermac and relegate the 12" to email/dial in/ portable machine which, paired with aprojector is still perfect for cusotmer calls.
Recruit for the cause? well , that's the reason I'm tryin gto get a great wow factor going. I work for IBM and when I walk into my office on Monday with an APPL laptop, I need enough ammo and knowledge to back this decision up.
The way I feel about women these days .... I'd rather make th powerbook my mate.
-eVolcre
Set you off huh? Oh, so it's my fault now right?
Suuuuuuure.
Ok. You want wow factor?
1)
Welcome to UNIX, an operating system specifically designed for uptime. Meaning specifically designed to never be turned off. So don't.
I love pulling Frodo (That's the name of my 12PB) out next to a WinXP bigot (don't worry, I feel the same about OS X bigots too), and dare him to a startup time contest.
Ready set - I'm ready in two seconds from opening the box.
Course he complains "Hey! That's not really a startup!" My answer is "Oh, well, that's as close to a power up as I will ever get, so, I guess you'll have to live with it. Can your machine do that for long?"
That get's 'em.
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You've got a weekend of exploration ahead of you, I suggest you explore as much as possible, and look into personalization of your new machine. Starting, of course, with naming it.
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2)
In sharing, in the System Preferences in your primary account (I suggest you activate root user and disable autologin we can discuss offline) activate both "Persona File Sharing" and "Windows File Sharing" (be sure to be connected to an IP network when you do this, or you will notice your "Windows File Sharing" will refuse to start).
This will allow you to go into the office Monday (That here on the River?), plug in, hit CMD(that funny curly-Q on the OpenApple Key)-K, or menu:Go/Connect To Server..., pull up the network neighborhood of IBM, and scare the hell out of your IT guy
I did this Wednesday to mine. His reaction was "Holy Sh**! You can hack me! Don't ever do that again!"
Set you off huh? Oh, so it's my fault now right?
Suuuuuuure.
Ok. You want wow factor?
1)
Welcome to UNIX, an operating system specifically designed for uptime. Meaning specifically designed to never be turned off. So don't.
I love pulling Frodo (That's the name of my 12PB) out next to a WinXP bigot (don't worry, I feel the same about OS X bigots too), and dare him to a startup time contest.
Ready set - I'm ready in two seconds from opening the box.
Course he complains "Hey! That's not really a startup!" My answer is "Oh, well, that's as close to a power up as I will ever get, so, I guess you'll have to live with it. Can your machine do that for long?"
That get's 'em.
----
You've got a weekend of exploration ahead of you, I suggest you explore as much as possible, and look into personalization of your new machine. Starting, of course, with naming it.
----
2)
In sharing, in the System Preferences in your primary account (I suggest you activate root user and disable autologin we can discuss offline) activate both "Persona File Sharing" and "Windows File Sharing" (be sure to be connected to an IP network when you do this, or you will notice your "Windows File Sharing" will refuse to start).
This will allow you to go into the office Monday (That here on the River?), plug in, hit CMD(that funny curly-Q on the OpenApple Key)-K, or menu:Go/Connect To Server..., pull up the network neighborhood of IBM, and scare the hell out of your IT guy
I did this Wednesday to mine. His reaction was "Holy Sh**! You can hack me! Don't ever do that again!"
Patrick that is phenomenal!
I'm a salesman for network services btw so have a highlevel knowledge of some of these things ...
What you described sounds amazing. So, I log into my office network which is ethernet ... and it shows me anyone and everyone on the network ... WITHOUT any special setup? wow.
How does that work? You saying that when I go into the office and power up , there is a way to connect into the IBM intranet? Where would I plug the ethernet cord into Lord Power? (he's been named ... LP for short).
I'm working from home at th emoment so I dial in or set up a VPN across my wireless broadband network. I don't think there is a dial in client for the Mac though, so I don't think I can *yet* access my IBM intranet from LP.
Course, I could be entirely wrong ....
I'm going to try the wireless share described way up at the top ...
Just shared my media folder on my T23 and will try and connect through the 'connect to server' technique someone mentioned. Now, if THAT works, I will be even more stunned.
This is a completely phenomenal system. Who in their right mind can say it is a 'basic child computer' or 'not advanced enough' . Sheesh!
Here's a basic question .... what is the Apple version of a 'my documents folder', or 'my pics'. Where should I save downloaded music and pictures to?
I'm a salesman for network services btw so have a highlevel knowledge of some of these things ...
What you described sounds amazing. So, I log into my office network which is ethernet ... and it shows me anyone and everyone on the network ... WITHOUT any special setup? wow.
How does that work? You saying that when I go into the office and power up , there is a way to connect into the IBM intranet? Where would I plug the ethernet cord into Lord Power? (he's been named ... LP for short).
I'm working from home at th emoment so I dial in or set up a VPN across my wireless broadband network. I don't think there is a dial in client for the Mac though, so I don't think I can *yet* access my IBM intranet from LP.
Course, I could be entirely wrong ....
I'm going to try the wireless share described way up at the top ...
Just shared my media folder on my T23 and will try and connect through the 'connect to server' technique someone mentioned. Now, if THAT works, I will be even more stunned.
This is a completely phenomenal system. Who in their right mind can say it is a 'basic child computer' or 'not advanced enough' . Sheesh!
Here's a basic question .... what is the Apple version of a 'my documents folder', or 'my pics'. Where should I save downloaded music and pictures to?