My pretty new Macbook Pro
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My pretty new Macbook Pro
So here I am sitting on a newly purchased Macbook Pro that I bought for my dad as a Christmas gift. This thing is the freakin' sweetest peice of hardware and am so jealous that I don't have one.
My dad is a retired highschool teacher that currently writes textbooks. His uses for computer are simply email, research, and word processing. It just seems like such a waste to hand this beauty over when I know her potential will never be reached. I'm considering keeping the laptop for myself and giving my dad my dell laptop which is pretty decent and still far more powerful than his requirements.
The devil on my shoulder sais keep it, the angel sais give. What would you do?
My dad is a retired highschool teacher that currently writes textbooks. His uses for computer are simply email, research, and word processing. It just seems like such a waste to hand this beauty over when I know her potential will never be reached. I'm considering keeping the laptop for myself and giving my dad my dell laptop which is pretty decent and still far more powerful than his requirements.
The devil on my shoulder sais keep it, the angel sais give. What would you do?
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It was actually twice that after warranty and peripherals..nickvd wrote:Yikes... I wish I could afford to give my dad a $1600+ christmas gift...
Non-existant, although he is the kind of person that loves to play with new toys.How is your dad's expertise when it comes to Mac's?? That may help your decision...
I have no experience with OSX either.If he's never used it [OSX] you KNOW you'll be doing much more support versus giving him an XP machine.
Decisions decisions..
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It's not like I would leave him without a presentEverah wrote:Give him the Mac. You bought it for him. Give it to him. Sell your dell in a few months and use the proceeds to finance your new Mac.
For those of you interested it's all wrapped up now with HIS name on it. Going to wait a couple months for all the new goodies coming out
As far as my dell goes, I'd be suprised if I got 300-400$ for it.. even though I paid $2500 about 3-4 years ago.
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True. But for that you could go out and buy him a tie and give him that while you talk about your new computer.Jcart wrote:It's not like I would leave him without a presentEverah wrote:Give him the Mac. You bought it for him. Give it to him. Sell your dell in a few months and use the proceeds to finance your new Mac.
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Everah wrote:True. But for that you could go out and buy him a tie and give him that while you talk about your new computer.Jcart wrote:It's not like I would leave him without a presentEverah wrote:Give him the Mac. You bought it for him. Give it to him. Sell your dell in a few months and use the proceeds to finance your new Mac.
Seriously though, Mac's freaking rule. That was the first time that I actually got to play with one for a couple hours. Before that my experience was looking over somebody else's shoulder, etc. However, having the ability not to maximize the window is almost as frustrating as all the windows shortcomings put together
Wow, that's a nice gift! When is your birthday? Maybe he could do the same for you 
Anyway, when he's never used OS X, it'll depend on how much he's used to windows and how adaptive he is how fast he's adjusted. The fact that you can't maximize your window will be annoying at first (I had the same), but after a while you don't know any differently and at some time you'll feel the other way around (being annoyed when a program maximizes the window, covering up all other stuff).
You are either a very generous person (wanna know when my birthday is?) or very rich (wanna be friends?) or both
Serious, I'm sure your dad will appreciate the gift and enjoy it very much.
Anyway, when he's never used OS X, it'll depend on how much he's used to windows and how adaptive he is how fast he's adjusted. The fact that you can't maximize your window will be annoying at first (I had the same), but after a while you don't know any differently and at some time you'll feel the other way around (being annoyed when a program maximizes the window, covering up all other stuff).
You are either a very generous person (wanna know when my birthday is?) or very rich (wanna be friends?) or both
Serious, I'm sure your dad will appreciate the gift and enjoy it very much.
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http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/10/app ... r-roundup/Jcart wrote:Got a link? I can't seem to find what you are talking about.
I'm fondling my Visa as we speak! My Thinkpad (while awesome) only has a 2 hour battery, and I would love to finally have Textmate and all those other elitist mac-only apps. The only thing I'll be mourning is the loss of my clit-mouse; an acceptable trade, IMO.
I just hope there's a major design revision, I've never been a big fan of the "fake aluminum" look. With any luck they'll design it after the new iMacs: an aluminum edge with glassy surfaces. That would be HAWT!
edit: Found this link suggesting a "gunmetal" finish, which could also be cool.
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/13/met ... le-campus/
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I would say I'm just generous. I'm working on the rich part (I've gone back to school for now). I usually wouldn't buy such an expensive gift in the first place except my mom bought him this Dell 6000 or whatever they are called a couple years ago. They are about 3" thick and are so loud all the time, it's just insane. Even the proper resolutions for widescreens were not supported yet! Ouchy ouch.matthijs wrote: You are either a very generous person (wanna know when my birthday is?) or very rich (wanna be friends?) or both Smile
Serious, I'm sure your dad will appreciate the gift and enjoy it very much.
Whenever I clicked the "zoom" button which is what it's called I believe, it would only increase the size of the screen slightly. Never would it come close to maximizing, unfortunantly. After reading http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/feb/mac-o ... esolutions it seems there isn't an actual maximize button at allfeyd wrote:There is a maximize-ish button on many windows. It's the green light in the upper left corners of windows. Its function is to basically linearize the data being displayed.
Of course you can also simply drag the window larger from the lower right corner.
@Kieran: Whoa! Sold!