Mac convert!

~Chameleon~

Ok, I've been bitten by the bug after a recent trip to the Apple store and am now in possession of a brand new, shiny Macbook Pro :j :j :j

I'm finding my way around it remarkably well - can't believe how simple and ingenious most of the apps are! Plus the fact it just works straight out of the box - no messing around installing AV/FW/spyware crap etc and spending hours updating everything is simply amazing!

The one thing I am struggling to find, which unfortunately ties me to the PC still, is a decent personal finance software to replace MS Money. I've been using this for 10+ years now so would prefer something with a similar format which can also handle large volumes of accounts. I've tried the demo version of iBank but it fell over and couldn't cope with the amount of data I threw at it :rolleyes:

I'm wondering if there are some seasoned Mac pro's out there who can offer some tips and advice to a newbie user please? :A :beer:

sweetstudent

Well done for making the change to a far better superior operating system!!!! and just think in five years time your mac will still be fast and able to use the lastest mac osx, when a pc cannot use the latest M$ release!!!!!

btw Snow Leopard is out soon!!!!

diable

I don't know if I can help you but seeing as I work in IT and still need to use XP when visiting private clients to sort out problems I used BootCamp to create a 5gb partition and installed XP on my MacBook.

I boot into Mac OS no problems but if I need XP you just boot the laptop while holding down the CMD key (I think) and use XP. This may not be the best solution but at least it may help you out in the short term or until someone posts a better solution.

HTH

edit, BootCamp comes with the Mac OS and the XP drivers are supplied on a disk.

jimpix12

I made the switch to a Macbook but still retain a Dell PC. Can't really see what all the fuss is about with the Mac; for every advantage there's an oversight or disadvantage. The lack of a delete button I can't seem to get over. You mean I can't click an icon on my desktop and delete it without right clicking?! Plus the whole compatibility thing is pretty awful. Plus the dgm thing - why so convoluted?

Yes it's fast and looks pretty but I still do all my photoshop stuff on the PC otherwise it'd take me all week on the Mac.

Jaffa.

http://www.gnucash.org/ looks good?

diable

spunko2010 wrote: »

I made the switch to a Macbook but still retain a Dell PC. Can't really see what all the fuss is about with the Mac; for every advantage there's an oversight or disadvantage. The lack of a delete button I can't seem to get over. You mean I can't click an icon on my desktop and delete it without right clicking?! Plus the whole compatibility thing is pretty awful. Plus the dgm thing - why so convoluted?

Yes it's fast and looks pretty but I still do all my photoshop stuff on the PC otherwise it'd take me all week on the Mac.

CMD + Backspace Key = Move to Trash

fox2319

You can also run windows under virtualisation using something like parallels I believe (not tried it myself but it's an option).

As for the delete key, cmd + <- will delete it, fn + <- is the equivalent of deleting text to the right of the cursor.

It's just a matter of getting used to it and you get the hang of it. I've only had a mac for 2-3 months and already it's my preferred machine for web and work, I save the PC (quad core, 9800GT and 22" LCD) for games - that's something the mac definitely can't handle as well

Jaffa.

Hang on, whats the point in running Windows on it? Lol! You could have purchased this and saved yourself £1070.33 + £100 ish for the Windows licence

I'd stick with using Mac OSX

M4RKM

spunko2010 wrote: »

The lack of a delete button I can't seem to get over. You mean I can't click an icon on my desktop and delete it without right clicking?! Plus the whole compatibility thing is pretty awful. Plus the dgm thing - why so convoluted?

Yes it's fast and looks pretty but I still do all my photoshop stuff on the PC otherwise it'd take me all week on the Mac.

hmm... mac's are full of shortcuts and plenty different ways to do things, you're stuck in windows mode where you'd hit a delete key and it would then ask you what you wanted to do with it, and then you'd say yes, i want to delete.

CMD+Backspace, just put's it straight in the trash without asking - do you want to move to recycle bin - which is QUICKER.. but yes.. you need to learn a different way to do things.

and as for downloading a file that is a DMG file, well a mac program can be a packaged into a single file, then you use a DMG to compress it, and maybe add in the instructions etc.

open up said DMG, drag and drop into applications and you're new software is installed! and to delete this said application, you can just drag it, or CMD+Backspace into the trash, and it is uninstalled..

Compatability? i'd love you to shed more light on this.

so here you have it folks, the age old RTFM yet again, which is why macs are so convoluted, and have awful compatibility. If you don't read up or check things, then you'll never know what these machines are capable of..

M4RKM

Jaffa. wrote: »

Hang on, whats the point in running Windows on it? Lol! You could have purchased this and saved yourself £1070.33 + £100 ish for the Windows licence

but i'd have to carry around my mac as well as my gorgeous eisystems with it's oh so powerful celery processor..

tempting, but VM ware means i carry less

fox2319

markymoo wrote: »

so here you have it folks, the age old RTFM yet again, which is why macs are so convoluted, and have awful compatibility. If you don't read up or check things, then you'll never know what these machines are capable of..

Yeah, I remember the manual that came with my mac. It was a small book around the size of a CD and didn't seem to have too much by way of info in it ( I mean seriously, who knows what cmd + space does?). Still, part of the fun is learning how to do things differently and then you can appreciate the logic.