I got my Macbook

Trip Hazard

Ladies and Gentlemen I am now part of the family...

I got my Macbook.

2.4GHz processor
2GB RAM
160 HDD
Double-layer SuperDrive



And all the fancyness that comes with being a Mac User:D:D:D

This is my first post here with my New machine so expect me to frequent these boards more often

Bye Bye Bill, I'm Happy:p

Hugh_C

welcome!

they're great machines

BanzaiBk

Congratz! Hope you enjoy it.

ZENER

Welcome aboard !! If it's your first venture into all things Mac then you will have many question. We're a friendly bunch here - ask away !!

ZEN

babypink

ZENER wrote: »

Welcome aboard !! If it's your first venture into all things Mac then you will have many question. We're a friendly bunch here - ask away !!

ditto.....on all counts!

have fun!

The Black Oil

Welcome.:D

whiterebel

Not another smugly happy mac user!!!!

Or welcome to the club, to put it another way.

Type 17

New Mac users are like reformed smokers - even more zealous than those who never smoked/used Windows...

Anyway, welcome, TH

Dog Fan

Type 17 wrote: »

New Mac users are like reformed smokers - even more zealous than those who never smoked/used Windows...

Anyway, welcome, TH

Actually, reformed smokers are mild compared to new mac users. At work they think I'm working sales for Mr. Jobs.

two mac laptops in our house. Great.

efb

Same as. Converted by sister an (An architect) and her bf (photographer). Macbook- got in in Apple Store 5th Ave with DVD burner, loving it. Plus my iTouch, graduated from iPod Video which graduated from a nano. Loving Mac's enthusiasm for third party applications, downloaded quite a few.

Worried about possible viruses though, what's the story re Viruses on Mac?

BanzaiBk

efb wrote: »

Worried about possible viruses though, what's the story re Viruses on Mac?

lol, are you serious?:p

You're safe;)

Type 17

efb wrote: »

Worried about possible viruses though, what's the story re Viruses on Mac?

Right now, there's nothing in the wild, but don't think that it'll never happen, because it probably will one day.

However, the Mac OS has more designed-in security, which means that it will be harder for viruses to spread as they do on Windows, installing themselves without your knowledge.

With the Mac OS, installations and running scripts etc needs more user-input, so this means that clever social engineering (tricking people) will be the way viruses will spread, but there is no way that social engineering can enable viruses to spread as far and wide as as they have in Windows.

Dog Fan

efb wrote: »

Same as. Converted by sister an (An architect) and her bf (photographer). Macbook- got in in Apple Store 5th Ave with DVD burner, loving it. Plus my iTouch, graduated from iPod Video which graduated from a nano. Loving Mac's enthusiasm for third party applications, downloaded quite a few.

Worried about possible viruses though, what's the story re Viruses on Mac?

As far as I know the current count on viruses for Macs is zero.
But - if you open MS word or excel documents, beware of the possibility of macros. I don't think they'll hit you, but could harm pc users you forward to.

K.O.Kiki

You should be more worried about (cross-platform) browser exploits & "social engineering"/phishing scams.

There are some (possible) exploits that utilise Quicktime; but they appear to be unused or patched quickly.