Macbook air 10.6

Anti

So i've just bought the above for some video and sound editing, and also to try out a mac, as i'v not used since i was a child. I've read through some of the stickies, and picked up a few helpfull tips. What im mainly looking for is program alternatives to what i use in windows. I think there is a VLC for mac, but what about multi IM clients like pidgin? Whats a half decent irc client, or can i get putty too ? And a torrent client, im guessing all the big players have a mac version. And this bootcamp malarky, is it a simplified version of dual boot on a windows machine? Does the install happen from within the OS ?

Sean!

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monkeyfudge

Adium is chat client that I use. Works very well... although struggles with facebook... but I'd say that's more down to facebook.

uTorrent is now available for OSX as well.

Haven't used bootcamp for a while since my hard drive died. But yes. It just gives you an option at start up to as to which OS you want to boot into. There's a boot camp assistant program in the Utilities folder in you Applications folder. It will prepare your drive for installing windows.

cornbb

Anti wrote: »

So i've just bought the above for some video and sound editing, and also to try out a mac, as i'v not used since i was a child. I've read through some of the stickies, and picked up a few helpfull tips. What im mainly looking for is program alternatives to what i use in windows. I think there is a VLC for mac, but what about multi IM clients like pidgin?

Check out Adium, it rocks

Whats a half decent irc client, or can i get putty too ?

Why use putty when you have a real terminal. Remember that Mac OS is unix based Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

And a torrent client, im guessing all the big players have a mac version.

Lots of people like Transmission, it's simple and lightweight and it works.

And this bootcamp malarky, is it a simplified version of dual boot on a windows machine? Does the install happen from within the OS ?

Bootcamp is included with OS. It basically allows you to dual boot. If you don't want the hassle/delay of rebooting to switch OS, consider running Windows as a VM using something like Parallels.

Anti

Ah awesome, Thanks guys

SoulTrader

Can't answer all your questions but can try a few.

Best bittorrent client I have used for my Mac OSX10.4 is Transmission. Very easy to use. I often have problems though with updates to Transmission (causing the application to fail to launch) so I tend to turn them off as in the past I have had to downgrade.

VLC is available for the Mac and works a treat.

To operate Windows, I used Parallels Desktop which I found to be way too processor-consuming on my machine. Consequently, I gave up using and my $300 copy of Vista has pretty much gone to waste.

For IM clients, try using Jabber in iChat.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iChat/3.0/en/fz102.html

alter200

to try out virtualization you can also run virtualbox from sun which is free

I haven't run windows VM in it but have a few linux ones going and all seems fine

Anti

Hey guys, thanks for all the help. I've got all the programs set up that i was looking for and I'm loving this mac, now i wish i got one years ago. So thanks again for all the help