So I got myself a...

MacBook Pro today.  2.53 GHZ 13 inch.  First thoughts: I love it.

Haven't been on a Mac since my eMac and I'm new to this OS.  Think I was on Tiger before.

It came with a free iPod Touch which was cool.  I got a lock and iWork as well as the Apple Care Protection Plan.

Was wondering what the more popular apps were for OS X?

Also, those with iPod Touches, how do you like them?  I'm 50/50 on keeping it or selling it.

Thanks

the free ipod touch? that come included with the extra $1k?

joking aside, hope you like it, now listen to some indie music, drink expensive coffee, and sketch something.


Edited by FROG MAN - 30 July 2009 at 1:48am

I am considering the 13inch macbook pro. I am just wondering how is the screen size. Is it worth it? I would like the confidence it won't crap out on me due to viruses. My friend has the 17inch? and it is amazing. I love it and the light up keyboard is a nice feature. Is the computing power there?

RoboCop wrote: I am considering the 13inch macbook pro. I am just wondering how is the screen size. Is it worth it? I would like the confidence it won't crap out on me due to viruses. My friend has the 17inch? and it is amazing. I love it and the light up keyboard is a nice feature. Is the computing power there?

I have the 13.3 macbook (not pro) and it's not really that small.

As for computing power...the new pro's are like 2.5ghz, which is really good for a laptop.

This thing is awesome.  I love it.  13' is great.  So far it seems like a powerful laptop.

ill buy your touch off of you

Awesome to hear, good choice. Hit me up on aim at zephyr92m if you have questions about stuff I'll gladly help. I'm not on now (at work) but I usually am afterwards.
   For chatting you will want Adium, for IRC (if you want) you'll want X-Chat Aqua. I use Safari as my main browser now sadly. I used Camino (mozilla based) for a long time, but I finally just got fed up with it (being slow, weird tendancies, didn't support some things) and Firefox 3.5.0 is terrible for os x. I haven't tried 3.5.1 yet, it could be better....

Lets see.... if you need to FTP anything (school projects to your webspace, etc) I would recommend transmit. It's quick, stable, really really straightforward, and easy to do favourites and junk.
For torrents, Transmission is the way to go IMO.
Get a program called "smc fan control" it lets you control how fast your fans spin, and trust me on a macbook pro you want to be able to do so, they get HOT.
   I have another program called "SMART status report" and it just adds a tiny green dot to my menu bar to monitor my hard drive health. If anything seems off the colour will change red so I can repair/ backup.
Which reminds me, Time Machine is sweet. You may not want or need it, but if you do I recommend it.
   Uhhhh what else....Growl is a handy notification program, and it works with just about every application out there. For cd burning I'd say just use iTunes, but if you're burning .avi's or data cd's etc, I recommend Disco. Really lightweight and handy program. Drag, drop, title, done.

Oh since I know you have a 360 and the internet, I suggest you get "Connect 360"
It lets you stream media over your home network to your 360, so you can listen to your music/ watch movies without moving a thing. I've had a couple issues with it not loading/ playing sometimes, but hey its free so I don't care. If it doesn't work I just use a thumbdrive in the front of the 360.
Anyways I think thats all I can think of riiight now, but if I have more or you have questions I'll post more here.

The eMike wrote: This thing is awesome.  I love it.  13' is great.  So far it seems like a powerful laptop.

I am not sure a 13 foot computer still counts as a latptop. 

I take it the higher RPM drains the battery as it goes up.  

Well yeah, anything using more power = battery draining. Same with leaving your bluetooth on etc when its not in use. I just started using MobileMe when I bought the iPhone, and so far I like it. I'm pretty much only using it for contacts at the moment, so I'm not sure if I will continue using it after my subscription is up, but if you have multiple macs I would suggest it, as it will keep your data consistant across each one.