So I pulled the trigger

congrats! specs?

 

Welcome to the awesome club

Seriously, you won't regret the decision. You can always dual boot into Windows 7 to do your .net developing as well. The new MBPs are excellent machines, and thunderbolt is going to really shine in about a year or so when there are good devices to utilize it out on the market (i'm looking forward to the Apple Cinema Display with a port replicator built in... Apple don't let me down on this)!

 

Awesome! Here are some useful links.

New Mac? Where to start.

Helpful information for any Mac user. Compliments of GGJstudios.

 

Congrats! U won't be disappointed! I just recently got my own mbp ( my parents have an iMac) && I lovvvvveeee it

 

Congrats Prepare for an agonizing wait with stomach twists because Apple teases with the phrase "your order is now in transit" which actually means you'll see it somewhere between 2 seconds and 4 weeks ;P

Im anxiously awaiting the arrival of mine as well

 

"Pulling the Trigger" Is an extremely overused cliche, please don't use it.

Next time, please post this thread in the "Other Mac Topics" forum, as this is the incorrect one.

However, congratulations on your new Mac.

 

Nice, it's going to FLY! I'm also running Office 2011 (got same deal) and Fusion. I literally cannot believe how fast it is running these applications and VMs. Much much better than my old 2007.

 

How Rude!

Public forum dude, when you buy MacRumors you can dictate its terms of usage. Until then perhaps you may want to ponder an old Australian colloquialism "shut your guts"

To the OP hope you enjoy your new toy....

 

Please, don't be ridiculous.

 

wrong...big time.

 

That was nice of you!

 

Someone who has been here for what 4 months thinks they run this place....thanks for the entertainment.

Congrats OP. You will thoroughly enjoy working with the MBP! I have the same specs minus the 17" and am getting a Matte screen put in (per Apple). I am on the go quite a bit and the glare sucks.

 

This is a public forum? Owned by nobody?

 

congrats on your purchase, you'll be very happy with it.

 

Congratulations! Wait until you get it - even the freaking packaging is beautiful!

 

So I pulled the trigger

Congratulations,

I placed my order for a base MBP on the 19th and the ETA is the 29th (it is coming from Shanghai - in Anchorage today). You ordered some very nice specs . I don't do video editing and I will be traveling with it. So there was no need for me to go high end. Also, I wanted to keep things portable and light. However, the event that I should find that I need more screen area I have 14 days to change up to the 15". It looks pretty good because I am adding on to my 24 iMac. Good luck.

Newbe

 

Congrats to the OP. Did we ever discover which machine he is buying?

 

How did you get such a great deal on that software package?

 

Get a grip man

 

For Office, you need to work for a company that is a heavy Microsoft user.

Here are details of the program:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/home-use-program.aspx

 

Congratulations! It's a great deal you get.

 

Going at it half cocked

Wooooaaahhh you son of a gun, seems like you’re a bit of a loose cannon!

Let me shoot from the hip, it’s worth a shot. Please don’t jump the gun! This guy has only just pulled the trigger. He’s very excited, at first I thought it was a gun in his pocket but he was just pleased to order his new Mac and I hope he sticks to his guns because he’s a bit of a straight shooter.

If you post again, you better come packin with all guns blazin because you shouldn’t bring a knife to a gun fight.

You strike me as someone who shoots first then asks questions later. But why did you shoot your mouth off? It was your choice, nobody held a gun to your head! This is a shot in the dark but that post was a bit of a shot in the foot rather than a shot in the arm.

Like shooting fish in a barrel, I’ll have to go now as I’m a bit under the gun at work.

 

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