Finaly ordered my Macbook Pro! A few questions and comments though.

[Karlos Santos]

Bollocks to Bootcamp and Win on Mac........

No need.

Lethal Pizzle is right about cues etc.

[GPS]

Bollocks to Bootcamp and Win on Mac........

No need.

Well I would be running traktor (and eventually ableton) on mac osx.

the only time I will ever use the windows partition is for starcraft and for school related stuff if software homework we need to use only works on windows (like that damn computer applications class last year). but aside from that i wont be using boot camp at all.

Lethal Pizzle is right about cues etc.

perfect so I wll just trasnfer all my tracks to my mac and it should be well. thanks!

Gianmarco

[ZekeDeJong]

2 small programs you should forsure get are "SMC fan control" and "caffine"

both are free (google them for the download info)

SMC fan control lets you set the cooling fan speed manually, which helps a lot because apple sets them super low so macbooks run really hot and can get fried

and caffine runs in the background and will keep your laptop from going into screen saver or sleep mode during sets

[GPS]

I was told NOT to adjust the fan speeds in any way by some IT ppl i know because it can mess it up in other ways. Ill look into "caffin" though

ok so i looked into the spek and mcovers

spek seems a bit on the pricy area but looks like i would get what i pay for

http://www.speckproducts.com/product...e?device_id=86



but mcovers is cheaper and comes with a free keyboard cover

http://www.ipearl-inc.com/mcover-aluminum.html

anyone got any experience with either? is the keyboard cover easy on the fingers when used?

also anyone know any good cooling mats or anything of the like?

thanks again!

Gianmarco

[Tyler Durden]

Google Chrome
Quicksilver
Transmission (or uTorrent)
Flip4Mac
MacFUSE
AppZapper
VLC
MacJanitor
UnRarX
and you'll probably like SoundFlower

just to name a few

and I always like incase for cases.

[completej]

AppZapper
SoundFlower

just to name a few

uh, holy crap to appzapper.

coming from windows to mac, i was pulling my hair out at how simplified uninstalls were. it was making me lose my mind thinking i was doing something wrong.

many thanks.

[Tyler Durden]

Haha yeah. I've had my MBP for 2 years and still feel like I'm missing something when I go to uninstall. But that's all there really is. AppZapper finds all the files associated with that app that may be hidden around your computer and deletes them. Simple as that.

[MaxOne]

also Disk Inventory X for seeing what is taking up the most room on your HD

[Tyler Durden]

also Disk Inventory X for seeing what is taking up the most room on your HD

+1. I have that as well but that's more of an inventory/maintenance tool, and if you have a large hd there's no real need to worry about it.

[Midi Kids]

Well I would be running traktor (and eventually ableton) on mac osx.

the only time I will ever use the windows partition is for starcraft and for school related stuff if software homework we need to use only works on windows (like that damn computer applications class last year). but aside from that i wont be using boot camp at all.





perfect so I wll just trasnfer all my tracks to my mac and it should be well. thanks!

Gianmarco

WHAT Screw bootcamp... lol i have a macbook pro 13" and i run SC2 on it perfectly fine never have issues its a custom map where someone decided it would be cool to have 500,000 guys on screen at one time.... lol otherwise normal games it works a charm and Traktor runs perfectly on a mac so no need to run that on bootcamp