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By: new to mac

new to mac — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:53:54 +0000

it’s offensive, Overkill. i HATE IT
& when I get one. I’ll love it.

GREEN (with envy)

…Gonna work towards it….and when i get there ….yeah baby, no more virus woes, bollockzware concerns just productivity.

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[...] Along those lines, I’ve gotten several requests to see my setup so here it. It’s an 8 core processor, with 16 gigs of RAM, and 3 X 30 inch monitors. Perfect for creating presentations! (more…) [...]

By: Ken Silver

Ken Silver — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:32:03 +0000

Hey Rich,

Nice set-up. But I can’t figure out how you work with your knees bumping up against the PC case under your desk.

Maybe you adopt the crouching dog position. I like the hammock position myself… stretched out and languid. :)

Ken Silver
http://www.silverlotto.com

By: Ken Silver

Ken Silver — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:26:32 +0000

Cris,

I was in the same position a couple months back. After 10 years away from Macs, I thought of going back because of all the problems I was having with XP Pro.

Turns out a change would be almost impossible with the programs I’m running, like Dreamweaver, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Outlook.

I run 5 screens on my desk (hey – two more than you, Rich!), and while this can also be done with Macs, it would mean throwing away the heavy-duty equipment, graphics cards and extensive memory I already have installed.

So there’s a 95% element of unnecessary duplication. I didn’t feel like paying $3k to own again what I already had.

And I found the Mac system seemed to be an ‘amateur’ way of doing business with its cute animated buttons and fancy design. Sure, I could use the Mac in Windows mode (or the other way round), but then there’s no advantage in the Apple platform since all you’re doing is emulating one platform on another.

Before the Mac Maniacs :-) rise up in force against my opinion, let me say this is just my viewpoint for my software and equipment. You can do most basic stuff like web and blog design with any system, but I was really surprised how different the Mac platform was to Windows. It took me a long while to figure it all out, and it still didn’t really feel that intuitive at the end of the experiment.

Ken Silver
http://www.silverlotto.com

By: Cris Chico

Cris Chico — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:40 +0000

Rich,

I am thinking about moving to the mac from xp but hesistant becaue of all the windows applications that I am running..

Any tips for those migrating over?

How long did it take you to be 100% comfortable with the Mac?

Also .. do you use http://www.parallels.com/ or http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

By: Pete O'Sullivan

Pete O'Sullivan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:48 +0000

Rich, Fantastic set up my friend. Though you mainly book into a penthouse suite to do your report writing don't you? I guess with your Mac Powerbook in hand. ;0) Cheers, Pete The e-Success Formula

By: Pauly Singh

Pauly Singh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:23:39 +0000

Hey Rich, thanks for sharing. It would be great if you could give additional examples of specific things you use throughout the day to keep you on top of your productivity.

Perhaps, what specific kitchen timers you use for GTD, what your ergonomic setup is (chair/keyboard), if you’ve switched over to Vitalist completely (saw a twitter tweet about that), are you still using ClearContext, etc.

By: Clay Franklin

Clay Franklin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:14:17 +0000

Nice set up Rich.
I am looking for a few timers myself…
I find the bix box noise bothers me so I find a powerful notebook is a bit quieter. I am running a HP portable 4gb cache and 4gb ram all at 800mhz with HDMI out to the 24″ hp monitor running at 1080p.
I like the idea of getting a couple more matching monitors.

I did just buy a macbook to get used to the operating system and software. LOL now I need me.com to sync everything up.

Clay

ps: Loving the HS course.