Comments on: Mac-tastic http://milwen.com/2008/04/07/mac-tastic/ Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:57:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Ham http://milwen.com/2008/04/07/mac-tastic/comment-page-1/#comment-3298 Michael Ham Tue, 06 May 2008 13:06:59 +0000 http://milwen.com/2008/04/07/mac-tastic/#comment-3298 This is an interesting post because I have been thinking a lot about Macs lately, so I will add my 3 cents. I have been using a Macbook Pro at church a lot lately because I work the program that we use to do the worship and such. It's called ProPresenter, and it too has no PC equivalent. It's really great software, too. 1) Regarding the Windows sharing, it does work great because it works off of Samba. Mac OS X is so similar to Linux that it really helps to know your Linux stuff. Which we do... sort of. 2) The keyboard stuff is weird, and it does take getting used to. I think that normally Command (Open Apple) is like the control button on a PC. 3) Media really is awesome on a Mac. Anything with a lowercase i is automatically a winner thanks to Apple. 4) I have not had the problem with the enter button renaming instead of opening a folder. Maybe it has to do with the view that Finder is in? I don't have a ton of experience using Finder, though, so I can't speak too much yet. 5) If you don't know about Spotlight, you definitely should. It's an awesome search tool that I just found out about not long ago. Hit Command-Space to search just about anything. 6) I want a MacBook Pro as my first laptop (if I can ever afford one). With Intel providing the CPUs, there's no reason not to (except the pricetag, of course). This is an interesting post because I have been thinking a lot about Macs lately, so I will add my 3 cents. I have been using a Macbook Pro at church a lot lately because I work the program that we use to do the worship and such. It’s called ProPresenter, and it too has no PC equivalent. It’s really great software, too.

1) Regarding the Windows sharing, it does work great because it works off of Samba. Mac OS X is so similar to Linux that it really helps to know your Linux stuff. Which we do… sort of.
2) The keyboard stuff is weird, and it does take getting used to. I think that normally Command (Open Apple) is like the control button on a PC.
3) Media really is awesome on a Mac. Anything with a lowercase i is automatically a winner thanks to Apple.
4) I have not had the problem with the enter button renaming instead of opening a folder. Maybe it has to do with the view that Finder is in? I don’t have a ton of experience using Finder, though, so I can’t speak too much yet.
5) If you don’t know about Spotlight, you definitely should. It’s an awesome search tool that I just found out about not long ago. Hit Command-Space to search just about anything.
6) I want a MacBook Pro as my first laptop (if I can ever afford one). With Intel providing the CPUs, there’s no reason not to (except the pricetag, of course).

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