Comments on: Using The Santa Rosa Macbook Pro

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:00 +0000

Having been an avid PC user for over 8 years, I recently converted to OSX for study purposes. Two years later I use OSX as my main platform, and run XP as a virtual machine inside it via VM ware - Very Stable indeed.

By: Apple Macbook Pro Still a Mac | John Chow dot Com

Apple Macbook Pro Still a Mac | John Chow dot Com — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:42:58 +0000

[...] been a little more than a week since the Fedex man dropped off my new Santa Rosa Macbook Pro with the Intel Penryn processor. I had dreams of replacing the Mac OS with Windows Vista but [...]

By: Making My First iMovie « Sally Chow dot Com

Making My First iMovie « Sally Chow dot Com — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:34:32 +0000

[...] and I made our first iMovie together. The movie was made from his Macbook Pro using the supplied iMovie program from Apple. It’s very easy to use and uploads directly to [...]

By: Granny Smith

Granny Smith — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:04 +0000

One week really isn’t long enough to fully appreciate a Mac. You hear of PC users switching to Mac, but rarely hear of Mac users switching to a PC. My guess is if you keep the Mac a month you won’t go back to the PC.

If you haven’t seen the full series of Mac & PC commercials they are good, and they are right here http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:08:49 +0000

The battery is one of the strong features, just like the processing power. However, I used only Windows and Linux so far. No Mac. But there is time, I’m only 28.

By: The World Is My Office | John Chow dot Com

The World Is My Office | John Chow dot Com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:16:37 +0000

[...] WTF? Like does the mall think I’m going take all their power or something? Good thing this Macbook Pro has a five hour battery [...]

By: Mac-Sage

Mac-Sage — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:52:07 +0000

Load Parallels and Windows XP on your MacBook Pro and you’ll have the best of both worlds. I routinely go back and forth for my work, and have no problems. (FYI, don’t even think about doing this with Vista.)

By: Brian Golatka

Brian Golatka — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:09:46 +0000

cmd-shift-4 then press space is my favorite screen capture method. takes a cap of the image and even the drop shadow which is nice for putting screenshots in a web design.

By: watercarving

watercarving — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:06:41 +0000

I love my mac. I have an iMac but the laptops are sweet as well.

By: Kevan

Kevan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:50:48 +0000

John, if you’re running Leopard, you gotta use F8. It’s a feature called Spaces. It lets you have several “desktops” at the same time, one for every application you have open. It’s like using Alt-Tab, only way more fun and customizable. You can set it up under System Preferences. Pretty much my favourite Mac feature.