Hi there people! Just a quick personal note from me. School is about to start over here in a couple of days and I was always stuck with a 3-and-a-half-year old 800 MHZ laptop. I think you can imagine that this was a bad thing for me, being a programmer / designer.

With lots of thinking and checking out resources if it'll benefit me, I decided to buy a MacBook Pro. Yesterday, I received my new laptop.

I've never worked with an Mac before, but I hear a lot of positive sounds about it. If you own a Mac, what do you think is one of the greatest features of the machine / OS? And if not, what's holding you back to buy one (Next to the ridiculous high price tag)?

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with my new laptop. I'm now able to work (a lot!) faster and this will probably mean more (web)design articles for you too! I'm already working on a new design for Marcofolio.net.

I made a few pictures from my MacBook Pro.

Whoohoo! UPS delivered the boxes.

As expected: Beautiful boxes containing the goods; The Mighty Mouse, the Apple keyboard and ofcourse: The Macoobk Pro.

All things outside their boxes.

And there it is, my totally new setting. Maybe not as inspirational as other workspaces, but it's good enough for me. You can see my (old) 19" widescreen, iPhone and Wacom on the picture.

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Oxide   | 201.81.243.xxx | 2008-08-23 21:43:16 I started to work with Mac since nearly 10 years. I'll never go back on a windows system. You'll see, after "unlearning" all the stupid things windows is puting in our heads, things are so good that you'll ask yourself why you didn't switch before !! Reply | Quote 0   0

Marco - Wow!   | 62.194.186.xxx | 2008-08-23 22:13:53 Wow, 10 years already?! You mean that you had one of the "oldskool" many-colored iMacs at home? The thing that you're saying (about Mac OS being very "logical" is one of the common things I hear about the system. I'll come back to this once I've used the system for a while Thanks for your comment! Reply | Quote 0   0

Anonymous   | 201.81.243.xxx | 2008-08-24 01:08:52 One more thing (!)... you'll probably never forget your first Mac. Welcome to the club. Reply | Quote 0   0

redglassbowl   | 66.157.98.xxx | 2008-08-24 00:45:07 to be completely honest, the greatest thing any mac has on any pc is the obvious elegance of the operating system. it looks great and if you've done even A LITTLE bit of research on macs, I'm certain you've heard the word 'seamless' several times. though it may get old it's very true. a mac works with itself and other macs better than any other computer out there. also the freeware for it is AMAZING! i've found several free design programs for games, graphics, applications, etc. don't worry... you'll love it. Reply | Quote 0   0

Marco - Thanks!   | 62.194.186.xxx | 2008-08-24 11:42:08 You're right: One of the reasons I (obviously) bought the machine was because of it's elegance. I haven't downloaded anything (yet) for the OS: Do you have a website / application that you would recommand? Thanks for your comment! Greetings, Marco Reply | Quote 0   0

Oxide   | 201.81.243.xxx | 2008-08-24 17:13:40 Things (http://www.culturedcode.com/things/) is wonderfull for organisation and work perfectly with iPhone. Growl is perfect for events notification. 1password for keeping all you passwords, forms, credit cards. Perian for quicktime to have more codec. Adium for chating (MSN, ICQ...). Coda or TexteMate for Web coding devs. Transmission for torrents. Newsfire or Netnewswire for Rss reading. The list goes on and on !! You'll see that those apps are wonderfull to work. Reply | Quote 0   0

Marco - Thanks!   | 62.194.186.xxx | 2008-08-24 17:46:06 Wow, nice list, thanks man! I'll try them out once I have time . If you have more / "must-knows" / "must-haves", I'm all ears! Greetings,, Reply | Quote 0   0

me   | 62.163.213.xxx | 2008-08-24 20:07:48 Please Explain... You say "I'm now able to work (a lot!) faster". What exactly are you doing faster? I mean, your mouse isn't moving faster and you sure aren't typing any faster. So What is saving your time. Wich applications do you use? I'm just interested in you motivation. I am a mac user myself but hate all the people who buy mac just because it is cool. Besides, why did you go pro instead of a normal macbook? Reply | Quote 0   0

Marco   | 62.194.186.xxx | 2008-08-24 20:36:40 Ah, you're right about that . Saving time is loading (and using) all the different applications: Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc., just compared with my old laptop. I've done some research, but especially the OS seems to be more build for designing. I've seen the OS at a friends house before and just like Oxide told before, it's much more "natural" than Windows (although you'll need to get used to it). Getting the pro version was because I wanted the "best one" as an investment: More RAM, GHZ etc. Secondly, the Pro one just looks (much) better (in my opinion) and 13.3" was too small. Anyway, good questions! Reply | Quote 0   0

Qbik   | 89.76.244.xxx | 2008-11-01 16:22:50 hmm I'm going to buy macbook (but new one) at the end of this month i need laptop smaller than 15'' so i choose macbook with 2,4 Ghz Any advice or on what to pay attention? Reply | Quote 0   0

Marco - Just buy!   | 62.194.186.xxx | 2008-11-01 18:15:48 Well, that's one of the advantages of the MacBook: You don't have to pay attention to anything. Just think what you want to do with it (Loads of Photoshopping or just 'simple tasks' like text editing) could help you with the hardware configuration. Other than that, you won't actually need anything. The "new generation" of MacBooks (sadly) came a little bit too late, but I really love the one that I have now ("older" generation ). Reply | Quote 0   0

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