Macbook Pro

[King29]

I bought one, I wanted a laptop but bought this, pretty stupid really as I know nothing about Macs.

I paid £100 from Cash Generator. It's got a 250GB hard drive and 6 gig ram and a core 2 cpu.

https://i67.tinypic.com/t7li0g.jpg https://i67.tinypic.com/35jge1h.jpg


It plays DVD's OK and Safari is strange, I've downloaded Chrome for it as Safari wouldn't play any YouTube videos. The thing I can't work out is that Chrome and Safari won't go full screen, you press the green button and it gets bigger but does not fill the screen?

YouTube will fill screen on 'full screen mode' Chrome/Safari won't. It started to get dark in the room, keyboard lit up which was a shock albeit a nice one. So basically, is it worth the £100 I paid? Is this the best operating system on it? It is fun to learn new stuff, it just seems overly complicated to Windows systems.

Help.

[UnknownStuntm...]

Full screen Chrome and also Safari:
Menu at top: View>Enter Full Screen

[Fizzoid]

Or Control+Cmd+F should toggle in and out of full screen

Is it worth £100? Possibly yes. Is it the aluminium unibody MacBook Pro?

OSX 10.6.8 is Snow Leopard. You can probably run later versions, 10.11 I think, maybe even newer, depend what model it is

[King29]

[J.M.]

https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

First thing I install on my Mac and one of few things I ever bothered paying for because I hate my Mac without it.

I don't use the buttons at all and have shortcuts for full screen, left, right, center, etc.
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[fatjames]

£100 sounds very reasonable considering the ram. It took me ages to get used to using a mac.

One thing you'll probably need is force quit (in the menu when click the apple in the top left) This is like ctrl+alt+del on Windows.

I've never really understood how to install programs on the mac or why it always asks you to manually drag and drop the program into your applications folder. I seem to get it done, but don't understand.

[Fizzoid]

[Rogerborg]

Not to be That Guy, but have you considered trying Lunix on it?

Ubuntu Unity seems fairly MacOs-ish (as in, they both give me the dry heaves), or Mint comes in a variety of tempting flavours.

You should be able to live-boot and run off of a USB stick to see if they play nicely before deciding whether to purge BSD MacOS.
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[Fizzoid]

It should also run Win7 should you want to

[The Shaggy D.A.]

One of the things I had problems with when moving to the Mac was Finder, i.e. it wasn't Windows Explorer.

Found an alternative called Mac Explorer which unfortunately is no longer supported, but they're supplying a free licence for anyone who still wants to use it :-

https://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html
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[Rogerborg]

[Fizzoid]

When I worked for a digital media agency, quite a few of our mac users used some form of Linux on them, although I seem to remember Ubuntu being the most popular

[King29]

I had enough of it. I put it on Gumtree and sold it for £200 on the nose. Bought a Chromebook.

[ScaredyCat]

It's already running bsd ... just fucking leave it.

Get brew https://brew.sh/ if you need to.


Oh wait... he got a Chromebook now instead... like Vista, but worse.
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[M.C]

That's an old ver. of OS X but it should be upgradeable.

[King29]

[Rogerborg]

[M.C]

[ScaredyCat]

[Rogerborg]

[Fizzoid]