You may have noticed I’ve been a bit absent the past few days. If you were jumping for joy, you’ll be glad to hear I’ll be down for the count for a bit longer. My Dell laptop decided to kick the bucket, a mere 2 weeks after the warranty expired. So I’ve decided it’s time to take the plunge and switch to Mac.
I picked up a 15″ MacBook Pro yesterday from my local Apple Store. I got home to discover that they keyboard intermittently stops working. Just my luck. Anyway, I’m heading back to the Apple Store in a bit to exchange this out for a different laptop. I should be back in full force tomorrow afternoon/evening.
While I’m away, if anyone has an recommendations for cool apps for Mac, or good versions of FTP or SSH software, let me know in the comments.
YEAH MACBOOK!!! But really, if you bought it online and used your Student Advantage card you get a free nano, I did.
Linux rules all!
@mister needles – I’m nowhere near a student, so that discount doesn’t apply to me.
@CJ – while I absolutely love Linux, it doesn’t have the applications I need for day to day work.
I’d be happy to give you that card number of a friend of mines, if I find it. Since we almost had him arrested he refuses to let anything of his leave his person.
I already swapped out for the new one, which has a perfectly working keyboard. In the process of installing Leopard now (all the MacBook’s in store have Tiger still on them), then I have to install all my apps
that’s a bitch.
Slight pain, but at least I didn’t do a ton of work on the broken one, so it’s not like I lost a ton of time.
Any app suggestions for FTP, SSH, etc?
I always used smartftp
congrats, I really like mine. Here’s what I would recommend:
Switch- if you do music or video it can make them mac savvy
Flip4Mac-allows you to watch wmv files.
Cyberduck- a good, free FTP agent
Firefox- (of course)
lol oops, I forgot mac, duh! smartftp wouldn’t work with that.
Ok here we go….
-VLC: Plays any video type at all
-The new photoshop Suite looks b-e-a-utiful on a mac if yours can handle it
-Office ‘08 is money
-Flip4Mac
-DivX for mac
and honestly really is you have all of those apps you have literly everything you’d need on a mac, mybe a few others, but generally those are what make a mac tic
Ok I have Flip4Mac, Office 08, Adobe CS3 Web Premium is on the way (they charge $10 to ship you the disks when you switch from Windows to Mac).
I’ll check out Cyberduck. I downloaded FileZilla cause that’s what i used on windows. Also heard Transmit is very good.
Only thing I’m looking for is how to fucking SSH to a server with a non-standard port. Can’t figure it out in Terminal
Hmm. There may be a few things that you miss about your PC, but other than that MacBooks are great. (If you got the Macbook Air I would have lol’ed at you for wasting $1800
).
Personally, I think the Adobe Suite looks better on PC, but that doesn’t matter. Office 08 for Mac is very nice but MS cut some of the features off of it (macros others).
Also: I have seen a fair amount of Mac’s crash with friends using them. I think that macs are as stable as PC’s, maybe a little more, but not a ton more.
Finally: It doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or a PC, when hardware dies, it will die. It doesn’t matter if you have a PC or a Mac, all hardware has chances of breaking.
Its all preference though between the two. I like Windows better, some people like Mac better. Its all preference, one is NOT better than the other.
um im just wondering y u got a mac if u review games as most games come out for pc…. but it does not really matter for a lappy cause there not really made 4 gaming. but really its all about preference. i have a vista asus f3sv and never had a problem, besides updating one driver and getting a BSoD for having 2 antivirus run scans at the same time (yea i dont know why this crashed it but it did, uninstalled included norton and was fine)
i like adobe on PC better but i really dont have that much to spend on any adobe product because there all really expensive. but i still like visa and my brother has a mac. i just like the left click man.
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SSH is included in the distro — just do a ‘man ssh’ for more help; unlike Windows, this (and a lot more, like the full development suite Xcode) is included by default.
@Drunk Pandas, if you do the ‘man ssh’, you’ll see that the -p option will allow you to use a non-standard port.
For read-only ftp, you could check out ‘man mount_ftp’, which will mount an ftp share as a folder. Drag and drop, dude!