**I'm Now Officially A Proud Member Of The Macbook Pro Family!!!**

**Garygary1** · 03-06-2011, 03:52 PM

probably gotta install adobe

**astromech** · 03-06-2011, 03:55 PM

www.google.com/chrome

no plugin needed.

**dylanmc111** · 03-06-2011, 03:59 PM

welcome to the MBP club

**michaeldunne109** · 03-06-2011, 04:01 PM

Making me want to jump on the bandwagon and get my mac now!!!

**Dustin V** · 03-06-2011, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Garygary1

probably gotta install adobe

I already installed Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash.

Originally Posted by happydan

www.google.com/chrome

no plugin needed.

Hmm I'm quite liking Safari so far, not a huge fan of Chrome hey.

Originally Posted by dylanmc111

welcome to the MBP club

Thanks mate.

**dylanmc111** · 03-06-2011, 04:05 PM

I moved from pc to mac there in Jan. If i knew there was gonna be a new one MBP I would of waited

I originally thought they were over priced but now I see, there now. I highly recommend buying, especially if your a digital DJ.

**Dustin V** · 03-06-2011, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by michaeldunne109

Making me want to jump on the bandwagon and get my mac now!!!

Do it bro, this new MBP is so sick and powerfull as f@#$!

2.00Ghz i7 Quad Core? = Power!

**loop** · 03-06-2011, 05:36 PM

Chrome is good, actually GREAT. Note that Flash is crashing, but if on Chrome, there's a built-in task manager and you can kill it without fucking up the loaded pages themselves. Refresh the page and it will reload the flash player.

As for general apps, I could suggest:
1) iStatMenu to see the nice resource usage stats in the menu - CPU, net, disk, ram, temperature. The newest version is paid (&cheap), but the older 2.0 is free
2) Xee for picture viewing in parallel to iPhoto
3) UnRarX to take care of Rar archives
4) VLC for media player
5) Transmission for torrents
6) iSoul for Soulseek client
7) MacPorts for command line utilities and other general linux/unix applications. requires XCode, available on the install DVD
8) AppZapper for Unistalling software
9) Adium for Instant Messaging client
10) If you require Windows applications, you can use:
a) WINE - the windows emulator (free)- i'm using foobar2000.exe with WINE and that's my preferred Audio player under OS X.
b) Parallels - my choice for virtualization. Windows7 64biit works great with Parallels. I'm using the coherence mode, which skins the Windows apps as OS X apps and it's great.
c) VMWare fusion - the other mainstream VM for OS X. can send you a discount coupon to get it for $39.99
d) VirtualBox - free VM. not as good on the cosmetics side, but a good way for running windows.
11) MS Office for Mac is OK (have bugs, but works)

I will also suggest you to review the apps in Applications > Utilities. Many important system maintenance apps are there by defualt. Get familiar with what is available there, as there are handy tools

Enjoy you Monster Mac! (me Jelly

)

**Dustin V** · 03-06-2011, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by loop

Chrome is good, actually GREAT. Note that Flash is crashing, but if on Chrome, there's a built-in task manager and you can kill it without fucking up the loaded pages themselves. Refresh the page and it will reload the flash player.

As for general apps, I could suggest:
1) iStatMenu to see the nice resource usage stats in the menu - CPU, net, disk, ram, temperature. The newest version is paid (&cheap), but the older 2.0 is free
2) Xee for picture viewing in parallel to iPhoto
3) UnRarX to take care of Rar archives
4) VLC for media player
5) Transmission for torrents
6) iSoul for Soulseek client
7) MacPorts for command line utilities and other general linux/unix applications. requires XCode, available on the install DVD
8) AppZapper for Unistalling software
9) Adium for Instant Messaging client
10) If you require Windows applications, you can use:
a) WINE - the windows emulator (free)- i'm using foobar2000.exe with WINE and that's my preferred Audio player under OS X.
b) Parallels - my choice for virtualization. Windows7 64biit works great with Parallels. I'm using the coherence mode, which skins the Windows apps as OS X apps and it's great.
c) VMWare fusion - the other mainstream VM for OS X. can send you a discount coupon to get it for $39.99
d) VirtualBox - free VM. not as good on the cosmetics side, but a good way for running windows.
11) MS Office for Mac is OK (have bugs, but works)

I will also suggest you to review the apps in Applications > Utilities. Many important system maintenance apps are there by defualt. Get familiar with what is available there, as there are handy tools

Enjoy you Monster Mac! (me Jelly

)

Wow, thanks for all the info and tips, I'll check them out for sure!

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I'm really wondering why youtube wont load up. I would think that being on a Mac, youtube should load up fine? It says that a plug in is missing? I downloaded a program called mactubes but it still wont show embed youtube vids.

Any suggestions about this guys?

**Dustin V** · 03-06-2011, 11:08 PM

So upto to now I've installed the following programs. If you think I've added some that probably aren't needed then please tell me. Thanks.

Adobe Reader X
Adobe Flash Player
Mackeeper
Microsoft Silverlight
OnyX
Mactubes
smcFanControl
flip4Mac WMV
iStatMenu

Edit.