Wow, I bought a MacBook Pro computer Tuesday! I am so excited about it.
I had pondered buying a new computer for several months. My Dell Inspiron had gotten so slow! I just couldn't get excited about a new Inspiron. It seems that the pc's are fast initially, but slow down quickly when more applications are added. I spend a lot of time grading papers, designing tests, running Mathematica, creating Mobipocket ebooks, and watching movies on Netflix, all at the same time. It was taking over five minutes to boot up the pc, bring up a FireFox browser, and harvest with FarmVile.
My friends at Purlescence Yarns in Sunnyvale recommended that I purchase a MacBook Pro.
So, Tuesday, after working at Safeway in the morning, I drove to Valley Fair and went into the Apple store. I ended up getting MacBook Pro 15" 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3, with the non-glare screen. I had to drive to Los Gatos to pick it up, because they didn't have this screen at Valley Fair.
I have been playing with my new computer for two days, of course. I have had good and bad experiences with the transition. I was able to get a new version of Mathematica software with no problem, but I was a couple of days shy of being able to get a cross-platform transfer for Dreamweaver CS4. I was told on Tuesday that I would not have to pay for an upgrade, but on Wednesday, when I called back, I found out that I would need to purchase CS5 for $250.00! Boy, was I upset. Not only was Tuesday's salesman careless, no one in the company could route me to him with a first name and four digit phone extension.
Oh, well, those are the breaks. I found out that I can use my pc backup cd's on the mac, and am able to utilize all of my Microsoft Office files. The only application which I can't run on the macintosh is Mobipocket, for my Amazon publications. I redid the operating system on my old pc, and now it is running much faster.
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I had a 17" Macbookpro when I worked at Genentech but unfortunately they took it back when I left. I really miss that Mac. They are super computers, expensive but really nice to use and easy to handle.
Regular registry cleanings and a good virus sweep will usually clean up a PC pretty quickly. But I have found the number one way to keep it running fast is not to install service packs and updates from Microsoft when the first come out they seem to be buggy and really slow down a computer over time. I'll install them 6 months to a year late and they will be much better.
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