The MacBook Experience

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My 4 days experience.

  • First application i install on her is Camino.
  • The second one is Firefox. (Sorry for camino fans, i love firefox more)
  • The next one is iTerm. I cannot live without tabs.
  • Azureus is available for BitTorrenting, no official Intel-binary yet. But community build works fine.
  • No free & good download manager but wget or curl are handy enough.
  • Gimpshop is free and has Intel-binary. Photoshop does not.
  • MSN Messenger is also a PPC binary. I prefer AdiumX. (The green duck is cute!)
  • Quicksilver is an instant command-line, no need to digging in Applications folder to hunt for specify app. Google Desktop fan (like me) can configure shortcut to be Ctrl+Ctrl. IIRC, the lastest Gnome Desktop also has the similar feature.
  • CoverFlow is a must-have application to show windows guys how cool is your mac ;)
  • Apple remote and Front Row is yet another thing that make your friends want to switch.
  • Keyboard layout switching uses Ctrl+space which is not comfortable for me. But i cannot change it to Alt+shift. This is annoying.
  • iPhoto is greedy like hell. I imported 1.7 GB of photo but iPhoto eats 4.7 GB of space.
  • A demo of MS Office 2004 is bundled with the machine but they’re PPC binaries. Running on Rosetta at acceptable speed but still slower than other native application.
  • OpenOffice.org on mac is ugly and required X11. People recommend NeoOffice but there is no intel-binary at this time.

OK Computer
OK Computer :)

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    ชิ หมั่นไส้

  • http://www.isriya.com mk

    - Try “Bits On Wheels”, far less resource-eating than Azereus.
    - Camino 1.0 is still unusable for me.
    - CocoViewX is ACDSee-like application.
    - VLC also eat less resource than Quicktime.
    - “iPhoto Diet” may help.
    - NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha is very slowwwww……… OOo 2.0 isn’t native but better.

  • http://plynoi.exteen.com plynoi

    VLC มันไม่ support DTS นิ (แต่จะดูหนัง DTS กะ notebook ก็ใช่ที่ :P )