Macbook Air

[JV_011_]

Fetching my Macbook air 13" today, what are the must have applications, Windows or Mac. Am also getting Parallel

 

[HitmanV]

best app for a macbook:

UBUNTU

 

[Cassady]

Uhm - what do you plan on doing with it?

 

[shakebake]

I've had my Macbook Air 13" for 1 and a half years now. Absolutely love it - will never get a different laptop - and I use it as my development machine, so I spend about 10 - 13 hours a day on it.

It takes a short amount of time to get used to the screen size, but the resolution and pixel density is nice and crisp, so you don't have to strain your eyes to work on it.

For me, I had to finish a huge project when I just got my laptop, and the mac keys were in different places to what my Sony Vaio keys were - so I donwnloaded a program that allows you to swap keys around - so for example, I could make the Alt key on the laptop my CNTRL key as it was switched around and my fingers were used to pressing in those positions. LOL.

Also, it's really a breeze booting into the Mac OS and then configuring Bootcamp to dual boot with Windows - the wizard guides you very nicely through it all. I use the Mac OS to write iOS and Android apps, and Windows to code Windows programs / .Net development, so I didn't want to run it in a virtual environment - wanted to boot into the correct OS so that I get full use of my system resources.

 

[Rickster]

Fetching my Macbook air 13" today, what are the must have applications, Windows or Mac. Am also getting Parallel

Why use Parallels when you can use boot camp?


Also asking R1150 for VM software is mental.

 

[icyrus]

Alfred 2

 

[Pooky]

If you are going to be doing a bit of mouse intensive work then I would recommend a separate mouse. Working on that trackpad - although a really nice trackpad - really gets annoying after a bit.

 

[GreGorGy]

best app for a macbook:

UBUNTU

Fùck off troll.

 

[Rickster]

Fùck off troll.

Shame man, he is only a 20 poster, go easy on him.

 

[pdg]

Another (free) option for running a Windows VM in Mac OS X: www.virtualbox.org

 

[GreGorGy]

Shame man, he is only a 20 poster, go easy on him.

Nah - it is a drive-by clone account, for the ones who want to troll but not be seen as such. My list of haters isn't long.

 

[dh_za]

Mac app i cant live without..

VMFusion - To run my windows stuff
Picasa - for my photos, Have Lightroom on Windows VM machine as i don't want to purchase the software all over again
RedQuits - I hate that the red dot minimizes
Bettersnap - give me (windows and Arrow ) shortcuts in mac to move open applications around the screen LOVE THIS APP
Bandwith + Monitor usage
Alfred - Search function
Caffeine Stops my mac from going to sleep
Dropbox
Googledrive
Onedrive
Box -using all 4 i have 300gig of online storage and can chose what i want to be offine (saving space on a 256gig SSD)

 

[greg0205]

Pages, Numbers and Keynote
Dropbox
Aperture (prefer it to iPhoto)
Calibre (if you read a lot. Converts to epub/mobi/PDF)
Speed Download ('tho Safari has improved download management a lot)
Transmission (torrents)
Unison (newsgroups)
1Password (password manager)
Pocket (news)
CleanMyMac
Battery Health
Bandwidth+
Skype
Flip4Mac (I also have MPlayerX for random video codecs)
Spotify
IFlicks
Avast (if you must)

 

[JV_011_]

Thanks for the feedback guys, highly appreciate it

First thing first:
* I will be using it for document editing(Research)
* Light weight development.C#, SQL 2012 for BI development. Academic
* Reasons for Parallel: is that i don't want to have to restart the machine to use visual studio( Only Office, SQL 2012 and VS2012) will need windows.
* Later i might start doing Android development. Just for fun.
* I will also be downloading occasional torrents from it
* XBMC and Plex Maybe

 

[GreGorGy]

I love me some Little Snitch - first install always.

For a dev IDE, try BBEdit but there are others (sublime)

 

[ph4t3]

Alfred 2 with PowerPack (It's definitely not just for searching or launching apps)
MacVim
iTerm 2
MPlayerX (Better than VLC imo)
Airmail (Better than mail.app)
Bartender
BetterTouchTool

 

[icyrus]

1Password (password manager)

I forgot 1Password earlier but it easily one of the most useful applications you can get.

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Fetching my Macbook air 13" today, what are the must have applications, Windows or Mac. Am also getting Parallel

Congrats on your first Mac

I took mine back yesterday. It was bent/warped. It wasn't sitting flush on tables and desks etc. I'm really disappointed.

 

[Spizz]

Congrats on your first Mac

I took mine back yesterday. It was bent/warped. It wasn't sitting flush on tables and desks etc. I'm really disappointed.

Are they replacing it or what's the deal?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Fetching my Macbook air 13" today, what are the must have applications, Windows or Mac. Am also getting Parallel

Don't waste your money on Parallels just get Virtualbox.

But whatever you do DO NOT install Windows at the first moment you get stuck, then the entire exercise of getting a Mac is pointless.

See if you can survive a month with just OS X and genuinely LEARN how to use the OS before reverting to Windows.

You'll probably find you don't really need Windows any more.