Apple Mac Lovers

**Heelfan71** · 06-21-2007, 09:00 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by dagger55

ok using Find in the new Safari is AWESOME

I will have to try this. Currently using firefox but it seems slow compared to Safari. Plus it just reminds me of Windows too much

I also down loaded Camino and it is pretty good.

Can I import my Firefox bookmarks into Safari ?

**Heelfan71** · 06-21-2007, 09:45 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

disregard. Got my bookmarks imported over. Going to stick with Safari myself. What does the "find" option do ? I saw it but I don't know what to find.

**dagger55** · 06-21-2007, 09:46 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by Heelfan71

disregard. Got my bookmarks imported over. Going to stick with Safari myself. What does the "find" option do ? I saw it but I don't know what to find.

Do Apple+F, and then type in the word you are trying to find on the website...

**Heelfan71** · 06-21-2007, 09:53 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by dagger55

Do Apple+F, and then type in the word you are trying to find on the website...

nice! How do I move to the next word ? If there were several of the same word on the page.

**fishepa** · 06-21-2007, 10:04 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by dagger55

Do Apple+F, and then type in the word you are trying to find on the website...

Brilliant!!!

/end sarcasm

**dagger55** · 06-21-2007, 10:08 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by Heelfan71

nice! How do I move to the next word ? If there were several of the same word on the page.

either pressing enter, or the two little arrows up by the box you type the word into

**bpd115** · 06-21-2007, 10:23 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Macs are Superb. I wanted to "try one out" back in 2002. OS 10.2 on a shiny new 1Ghz iMac G4. Would be something to learn from but I would never switch from XP.

Fast forward 5 years. I'm typing this on my Quad 2.66 Mac Pro with a 23" and 30" ACD display. My macbook pro is to my right. My wife's mac mini and macbook to my left.

99% of my family has switched with the final holdout getting a new Mac soon. Over 30 Macs sold. People who would constantly bring me a windows box to fix, I now only hear how it just works.

Leopard will be a solid release and will make your Mac faster. $129 in October. It always strikes me how Apple streamlines their OS releases and the major releases get faster, while Windows Vista will make a fine XP machine feel like a PII 400.

**fossen** · 07-02-2007, 02:23 PM

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I'm digging this thread up, because I am seriously thinking about a MacBook. I need a new laptop. I've wanted to try Mac for years, and I love the macBook design, as it's just what I'm looking for - small, light, and very portable. I also would like to have access to a Mac to look at sites I am working on to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

I am probably going to hold off until I can get a MacBook with Leopard, or at least some sort of upgrade deal.

Anyways ...

My big concern is that I run a windows environment here. Is it going to be a pain in the *** to integrate a Mac into my network? In terms of accessing windows network shares, or printing to a XP-hosted network printer?

**mgoblue** · 07-02-2007, 02:35 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by fossen

I'm digging this thread up, because I am seriously thinking about a MacBook. I need a new laptop. I've wanted to try Mac for years, and I love the macBook design, as it's just what I'm looking for - small, light, and very portable. I also would like to have access to a Mac to look at sites I am working on to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

I am probably going to hold off until I can get a MacBook with Leopard, or at least some sort of upgrade deal.

Anyways ...

My big concern is that I run a windows environment here. Is it going to be a pain in the *** to integrate a Mac into my network? In terms of accessing windows network shares, or printing to a XP-hosted network printer?

I don't have a printer, but I just checked out my home network on my work MacBook Pro and I could easily mount a shared folder on Windows XP without having to change a thing.

I'd never tried it before, but was a piece of cake. I'll have to remember that if I want to transfer stuff, since I work at home twice a week.

**fishepa** · 07-02-2007, 02:37 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by fossen

I'm digging this thread up, because I am seriously thinking about a MacBook. I need a new laptop. I've wanted to try Mac for years, and I love the macBook design, as it's just what I'm looking for - small, light, and very portable. I also would like to have access to a Mac to look at sites I am working on to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

I am probably going to hold off until I can get a MacBook with Leopard, or at least some sort of upgrade deal.

Anyways ...

My big concern is that I run a windows environment here. Is it going to be a pain in the *** to integrate a Mac into my network? In terms of accessing windows network shares, or printing to a XP-hosted network printer?

I am getting a macbook as well once Leopard comes out.

**dagger55** · 07-02-2007, 02:38 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by fossen

I'm digging this thread up, because I am seriously thinking about a MacBook. I need a new laptop. I've wanted to try Mac for years, and I love the macBook design, as it's just what I'm looking for - small, light, and very portable. I also would like to have access to a Mac to look at sites I am working on to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

I am probably going to hold off until I can get a MacBook with Leopard, or at least some sort of upgrade deal.

Anyways ...

My big concern is that I run a windows environment here. Is it going to be a pain in the *** to integrate a Mac into my network? In terms of accessing windows network shares, or printing to a XP-hosted network printer?

First off, great choice. You are going to love it.

I have never tried to integrate my mac into a windows network, but I would think there would not be too many problems doing this....

Second, you can still run windows on your mac, either using Boot Camp or Parallels. I have Vista running on parallels, and XP running on Boot Camp on my macbook pro.

**JRod** · 07-02-2007, 02:50 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

I would hold off until Leopard comes out.

**dagger55** · 07-02-2007, 03:00 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by JRod

I would hold off until Leopard comes out.

I would guess that pretty soon Apple will begin to offer free upgrade vouchers to new purchases of macbook. Probably in a month or so

**fossen** · 07-02-2007, 03:13 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Originally posted by dagger55

Second, you can still run windows on your mac, either using Boot Camp or Parallels. I have Vista running on parallels, and XP running on Boot Camp on my macbook pro.

This is something I'll definitely be looking at, as I will need to do development work in a windows environment. But I don't want to spend all my time in Windows, or I'd just buy a Dell.

Originally posted by dagger55

I would guess that pretty soon Apple will begin to offer free upgrade vouchers to new purchases of macbook. Probably in a month or so

Yeah - that's what I'm thinking. With a new OS on the horizion, they need to clear stock, and make sure people don't keep putting off the purchase.

**thejake** · 07-02-2007, 04:01 PM

Re: Apple Mac Lovers

Its very easy for me to look at windows shares on my home network from my macbook. Finder automatically finds all the folders that i have shared. All i have to do is mount them. I also have a 500 GB portable hard drive hooked up to my dell and my mac book can even access that over the network.

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