Hey chris, Congrats! I don't have a Mac myself, but I'm using this list as a learning experience when I do get a Mac, which hopefully should be in the near future. i"ll have to admit that Alex is one of the major highlights of the Mac experience imho. So, you're on a winning streak. BTW if you wanted to run Windows on the same machine as OSX, there's no reason why you can't run it within a virtual machine. You mentioned your specs, and for a serious VM installation, its not possible, but you could do basic tasks with a Windows VM. Allocate 1GB of RAM to it, and Windows should run OK. Not ideally, but it would be a at least functional experience. --Erik
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com> wrote: > Nice one Chris. I'm not a full Mac user due to having to use Windows at > work. > On 4 Feb 2013, at 11:37 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did it! I actually? did it! Just two days ago, on Saturday, I went up > to Best Buy and with a chunk of extra income I had this month, I bit the > bullet and bought me a mac mini! So now I have my 13 inch mid 2010 white > macbook, and I also now have this mini. I am taking the mini back to > swap, as Best Buy messed up though. They gave me an opened box mid 2011 > model. They didn't even tell me it was opened. Imagine my horror when I > got home and tried with its serial number to register it. It told me the > purchase date I entered was not correct. When I called Apple, they told me > it had been purchased by someone else over a year ago. We went and looked > in the About this Mac page and saw it was a mid 2011, not the newest 2012 > model. That really pissed me off. Anyway, I called Best Buy and spoke > with the manager. He was extremely apologetic, and said if I could run it > up there, he'd swap it for no cost for the correct newer 2012 model. I > love this system as is, but it's only got the I5, 2GB ram, where what I > wanted was the I5 4GB ram. NOt only that but I discovered this morning > earlier when trying to charge my IPhone, that one of the USB ports is bad. > I'm not very happy about this transaction, but, here is the bottom line. > It's gonna get swapped, and then I'll use Migration assistance and move > all my stuff from the macbook back over which won't take but maybe an hour > or so, so really, I'm honestly not very concerned as far as losing data. I > have this thing right now hooked up to my 5.1 home theater system via HDMI, > high deff, and I gotta tell you, sitting here now typing this e-mail on the > thing… this is amazing! I never thought Alex could sound so good through a > set of surround speakers. I shutter to think once I get the new system > with the 4GB ram how good this will be. I actually don't even have my > windows desktop hooked up any more. If I absolutely must do windows, I > have a Dell Inspiron system I can use in a pinch, although I'd rather not, > if I can help it. LOL! > > Anyway, I am so glad to finally officially be a full mac user! I still > find myself wanting to fall back on Windows, but my guess is now that I > don't have an easy way to do so, in time I'll get more used to things over > here. I know what I'm doing, it's just a bit awkward. > > Anyway, just wanted to share. Hope that was OK. > > Chris Gilland > Founder of CLG Productions > http://www.clgproductions.com > Phone: 803-760-7136 > Toll-free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except > weekends and holidays > > E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
