Anyone have an Apple computer? My husband just gave me an early Christmas present and it is a MacBook Pro! It's not that we actually needed a new computer since now we have an HP desktop and a Compaq Pasario lap top. But I always wanted an Apple as both of my sons have one and they can really be quite creative with them with very little effort.
The operating system is entirely different and will defanetly be a bit to get use to. So for anyone who has one and can give me some advice, I'm all eyes an ears!
I have deliberatly spelled some words wrong since this system is highlighting the mispelled words. That didn't happen with my other computers. So we will see what it does!
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Rene
December 3, 2007, 9:17pm
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Good luck, let me know how you make out. I was thinking about an Apple laptop. I worry about the programs and operating system not being compatible with the rest of the world. Our second desktop has vista and I hate it, I use my "old" desktop with xp instead. My husband ends up using the vista for online poker more than anything else.
I absolutely love my Apple. It is so much easier. Everything is just "click" and "drag". I love that when you turn it on, it's just on! No waiting for it to load. There is no Norton or any other anti-virus programs needed. It is a wireless laptop that connected to the wireless server instantly. My Compaq took forever to connect. When I connected my Kodak camera to the Apple, it just opened it. No disc/software needed. I would recommend it to any one!
Good luck, let me know how you make out. I was thinking about an Apple laptop. I worry about the programs and operating system not being compatible with the rest of the world. Our second desktop has vista and I hate it, I use my "old" desktop with xp instead. My husband ends up using the vista for online poker more than anything else.
I too am thinking about an Apple to replace an old system. I refuse to go to Vista. I finally got used to XP somewhat. The computer I'm using in fact, is a dual boot configuration of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with multiple hardware upgrades that conflict. Even I hate SOME change.
Apple unveils new laptop, iPhone features BY MAY WONG AND JORDAN ROBERTSON The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop at the Macworld trade show on Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it’s opened. Jobs also confirmed the consumer electronics company’s foray into online movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer films over high-speed Internet connections within 30 days after they’re released on DVD. Always a showman, Jobs unwound the string on a standardsized manila office envelope and slid out the ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter from fans at the conference. At its beefiest, the new computer is .76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it’s .16 inches, he said. It comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade. The machine doesn’t come with a built-in optical drive for reading CDs and DVDs, a feature Jobs says consumers won’t miss because they can download movies and music over the Internet and access the optical drives on other PCs and Macs to install new software. They can buy an external drive, however, that will retail for $99. Trading in Apple stock was heavy Tuesday, the first day of the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Shares fell $9.74, or 5.5 percent, to close at $169.04. Caris & Co. analyst Shebly Seyrafi said the MacBook Air’s price tag “may have been higher than people would have hoped for.” Investors also may be “incrementally” concerned that Apple’s iPhone was not updated so that it can connect to faster cellular networks, he said. The new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost $1,799 when it goes on sale in two weeks, though Apple is taking orders now. The company’s Web site is already touting the machine. The price is competitive with other laptops in its market segment. The machine helps fortify Apple’s already-sizzling Macintosh product lineup and burnish its polished image as a purveyor of cool. Apple’s Macintosh business hit record sales of 7 million units in the company’s fiscal 2007, up more than 30 percent from the previous year. After hovering for years with a 2 percent to 3 percent share of the personal computer market in the United States, Apple’s slice has grown to almost 8 percent, making it the nation’s third-largest PC vendor, according to the latest figures from market researcher Gartner Inc. Other revelations during Jobs’ speech reflected the Cupertinobased company’s intensifying efforts to push deeper into consumers’ living rooms with technologies that blend Internet technology into home entertainment devices. The movie-rental announcement capped months of speculation that an Apple movie rental service was in the offing. The service launched Tuesday in the United States and will roll out internationally later this year. Apple will have more than 1,000 movies for online rental through iTunes by the end of February, with prices of $2.99 for older movies and $3.99 for new releases. Users can watch instantly over a broadband Internet connection, or download and keep the movie for 30 days while having 24 hours to finish the movie once it’s started. Apple is partnering with 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony on the service, which will work on Macs, Windows-based machines, iPhones, iPods or Apple TV set-top boxes. Jobs cut the price of Apple TV from $299 to $229 and announced new software that allows users to order movies through the device and play them directly on their TV sets, eliminating the need to route the content through a personal computer first. The software is free to existing Apple TV customers and will be included in new Apple TV devices shipping in two weeks. Jobs also unveiled a string of new features for the iPhone, showing how users of the combination iPod-cell phone-Internet surfi ng device can now pinpoint their location on Web maps, text-message multiple people at once and customize their home screens. Jobs also said Apple has sold 4 million iPhones during their fi rst 200 days on sale. The crowd applauded when Jobs demonstrated mapping upgrades to the iPhone. Other features rolling out Tuesday included the ability to switch around icons on the iPhones home screen. Users also can create up to nine home screens. In addition, Jobs announced a new product called Time Capsule that allows Mac users to back up their data wirelessly on a 500-gigabyte drive that will sell for $299 and another with a terabyte of storage that will sell for $499. Jobs also unveiled new software for the iPod Touch music player. New models will be able to process e-mail and perform new mapping functions.
I absolutely love my Apple. It is so much easier. Everything is just "click" and "drag". I love that when you turn it on, it's just on! No waiting for it to load. There is no Norton or any other anti-virus programs needed. It is a wireless laptop that connected to the wireless server instantly. My Compaq took forever to connect. When I connected my Kodak camera to the Apple, it just opened it. No disc/software needed. I would recommend it to any one!
I have a MacBook Pro. And I love it!! I will never go back to another PC. (although I have 2 others, but I never use them) I actually think that Gates really took over the market on computer systems, but with my experience, if you have an Apple, you won't go back. Well, I won't any way! Go to the Apple store at Crossgates and try one first. Gather all the info you can before you make the switch. I just knew I wanted one since both of my sons have one and I have tried it and saw what it can do.
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