Moving over to Mac land

[ardchoille]

Today I sold my netbook, the last vestige of Linux in my life. I had been using nothing but Linux for a decade and was content. That is, I was content until I purchased my iPhone 4S. iOS showed me that I had been missing a great deal. So, I am now officially an iFan. I feel so much cleaner, lol.

The next thing for me will be either an iMac or a Mac mini - it's so hard to choose.

 

[Pinkpoison]

Thats the trouble,you get one Apple device and you have to have more

 

[ardchoille]

Thats the trouble,you get one Apple device and you have to have more

Again, I blame Apple, lol.

 

[Skull One]

The good news is better than 90% of your linux knowledge will be directly usable in OSX. In fact the first thing you will probably want to do after you do a baseline backup is to install Mac Ports (The MacPorts Project -- Home). The other thing I would recommend is getting Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/) so you can run virtual machines of any Linux distro or Windows OS. Basically my iMac is running OSX, Win 7 and Mint (Ubuntu) 24/7. In fact my average uptime is around 60 days before I need to reboot anything.

 

[Pinkpoison]

I started out with windows pc,s,had two laptops,then i got my MacBook pro and theres no way i would ever go back.

 

[zphone]

The good news is better than 90% of your linux knowledge will be directly usable in OSX. In fact the first thing you will probably want to do after you do a baseline backup is to install Mac Ports (The MacPorts Project -- Home). The other thing I would recommend is getting Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/) so you can run virtual machines of any Linux distro or Windows OS. Basically my iMac is running OSX, Win 7 and Mint (Ubuntu) 24/7. In fact my average uptime is around 60 days before I need to reboot anything.

Got to say parallels is great. I was a big VMware fan, and at work it takes the cake, we have pretty big 400+ core implementation. but for workstation virtualization on the Mac parallels has the upper hand.
I even virtualized mountain lion for testing.

 

[Deckyon]

I also believe that, with Parallels, you can install Windows or Linux as a bootcamp, then use Parallels to access the BC partition as its source and use it virtualized. I could be wrong, but I think I read that somewhere. I do not have Parallels and no longer need a Bootcamp version of Windows.

 

[Skull One]

I also believe that, with Parallels, you can install Windows or Linux as a bootcamp, then use Parallels to access the BC partition as its source and use it virtualized. I could be wrong, but I think I read that somewhere. I do not have Parallels and no longer need a Bootcamp version of Windows.

Yes you can. And it works GREAT. I ran that way for over a year. But after I realized I had only booted directly to Windows twice, I decided to just convert the bootcamp to a virtual HD and freed up the disk space. I now keep all of my Virtual HDs on a thunderbolt drive that speed tests at 178 Megabytes per seconds. Which is much faster than the built in HD in my iMac.

 

[ardchoille]

Wowsers, looks like my Linux knowledge won't go unused, good to know. Now you all have me wanting a Mac even more

I just bought Tapatalk and it looks like it will allow me to report posts, something I was going to miss since I work hard to help out here. Tapatalk is quite nice.

Thank you all for the replies, looks like I'm going to have quite a bit of fun in the Mac world!

 

[Pocobear]

Go with the MAC Mini PC, much easier to customize and add memory too, than the iMac. If you get a iMac and decide you want a bigger display, buy a new iMac, if you buy a Mac Mini, just get a bigger monitor, much cheaper that way. Also it's easier to upgrade drives on the Mac mini.

 

[ardchoille]

Go with the MAC Mini PC, much easier to customize and add memory too, than the iMac. If you get a iMac and decide you want a bigger display, buy a new iMac, if you buy a Mac Mini, just get a bigger monitor, much cheaper that way. Also it's easier to upgrade drives on the Mac mini.

Ah, very nice! I have a friend who has a huge TV with 2 HDMI ports. That will come in handy for a Mac mini and my new Apple TV.

 

[ardchoille]

Poor choice on my part. I got a Roku when I had my iMac because it was less expensive. And I got what I paid for. I'll bet that Apple TV gives much better sound quality and has less problems processing data.

I've spent all my toy money for the year so I probably won't be able to replace that Roku yet. I really don't need it until the Spring, I use it to watch MLB TV and my iPad 2 performed faster. I was always 2 outs behind my iPad using Roku.

I love my Apple TV. It's fast and smooth, none of the choppiness that I heard others were plagued with. I've been watching Mr. Bean all day on my Netflix account.

The main reason I bought the Apple TV instead of the other streaming media boxes is because it's an Apple product - I was amazed at the iPhone, iPad and MacBook and figured the TV would have been the same high quality, I wasn't disappointed.

You'll love the Apple TV.

 

[KevinJS]

The pennies have been hitting the piggy bank hard. I'm about half way to my MBP. It's going to be hell saving enough to spec it how I want it. I just know I'll be tempted to go and buy the cheapest model as soon as I have the available cash. I must be strong!

 

[ardchoille]

The pennies have been hitting the piggy bank hard. I'm about half way to my MBP. It's going to be hell saving enough to spec it how I want it. I just know I'll be tempted to go and buy the cheapest model as soon as I have the available cash. I must be strong!

I know exactly how you feel, I've been stashing money away too. Yes, we must be strong.. that "buy the cheapest model the moment you have the money" is contagious, lol.

 

[Pinkpoison]

Yes theres a saying that goes....buy in haste,repent at leisure....and its soooo true.