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<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>I've been into Macs since '84 - we have 6 in the office - my 17"
MacBook Pro is the second brain to my business.</div>
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<div>Ease of use - rock solid OS - rock solid hardware - elegant
interface - VMWare Fusion makes it both a Mac and fast full fledged PC
- best of both worlds. .mac can provide some great syncing
features for a multiple person small office - we use ichat for 3 and 4
way video conferences which Skype can't do.</div>
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<div>Always been the way to go in my book.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Jeff C.</div>
<div>Village Power Design</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Mac for certain - 25 years of owning a
Mac and over 10 with a PC at work. You'll likely want a vpc program
and a wireless keyboard and two button mouse for desk work. Don't buy
the bottom of the line nor the top- you will like I
think.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ezra Auerbach</blockquote>
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On 10-Apr-09, at 10:56 AM, Keith Cronin <<a
href="mailto:electrichi01@yahoo.com">electrichi01@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I also segued to a mac last fall and
installed VMWare to bridge the PC experience. Overall, I would
recommend the transition.<br>
There is also incentive, if you live in a metro area- to get training
at the Apple store- it is $100 for the year and if you can carve out
time, you can take 1 lesson a week on a host of topics to get up to
speed rather quickly.<br>
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I believe in the next 5 years, we will be agnostic on platforms, and
we will be primarily web based, as we want everything on the go. It
(wireless) will be inexpensive and ubiquitous in larger populaces and
my vision for larger mesh networks will cover all of us to connect
more readily. It is amazing, Get Smart's shoe phone to where we are
today is extraordinary and the innovation will only
accelerate..............................<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY"><font
face="Times New Roman">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY</font
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Back to the mac- very robust machine architecture and relatively
simple to use and setup anything from wireless networking to
installing a printer. Their time machine feature also deserves
mentioning- it does incremental backups- meaning, it will take, like a
video of your activities and save the activities as they occur. So, if
you are working on a proposal, and doing alot of revisions, it will
archive them on a time line. If you ever wonder what you where working
on, lets say Monday, you can go back in time, and find it. Very slick,
as PC's, I believe, don't have this functionality to date.<br>
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Lastly, on the backup and if you still have a PC- I would highly
suggest subscribing to</font> <a href=""><font
face="Times New Roman">www.mozy.com</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman"> for your laptop and office server. Same
theorem as above- incremental backups, when you are not working on
your machine- to the web. I did this a few months ago- have almost
100GB of data archived there. Did take alot of time (weeks) to upload,
but it is all there, in a directory to grab anything when I need it.
Lets face it, when we do backups, like at the office, we take either
some DVD's or a hard drive, back and forth every week. This eliminates
this completely. Also, I found a coupon code for their service- type
in the word NEXT into the box before you subscribe and it is $46 a
year to back up everything for one machine. The office/server flavored
subscription is alot more, but this also frees up your time to focus
on your business.<br>
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Another great wrench tool list addition!</font><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 10, 2009 7:19:16 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] A Wrench's computer<br>
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As yet another long-time PC veteran (after IBM SNA and PDP-11s) with
way too much Windows internals experience, I also just purchased my
first Mac. Installed Parallels to support Quickbooks (still no
integrated payroll on their Mac version.)<br>
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I have a maxed-out MacBook Pro as a desktop replacement but I will say
that the integrated graphics (9400M) is quite adequate even for large
SketchUp models - so the plain MacBook looks like a heckuva deal given
its monoblock case design and low price. The MagSafe power
connector is pure genius.</blockquote>
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If you click on the new trackpads with two fingers, you get the
right-click context menu all us Windows power users miss. The
other shortcut it took me awhile to find was <command> + <~>
which is equivalent to <ctrl> + <F6> in Windows (move to
next window in a multiple document interface.)<br>
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On 4/10/09 9:56 AM, Larry Crutcher, Starlight Solar wrote:<br>
> Joel,<br>
> After 28 years of business computing dating from my George Morrow
CPM machine, I purchased my first Mac, a MackBook Pro, 2.4GHz. After 6
months, I have very mixed feelings about it. I love the battery life
and simplicity of features and included programs. Although I am still
in a steep learning curve, there are many things that frustrate me
daily. NO right click button means you need to plug in a mouse so you
can use the many options accessible by a right click. I have my old
Sharp laptop PC on the other desk and find that I often scoot my
rolling chair to it to quickly accomplish something. Perhaps it is
just because it is familiar.<br>
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> The MacBook seems rugged, has a fairly bright screen although my
Sharp has a sunlight readable, 400 NIT backlight. I am sure once I
learn, or just put up with, the intricateness of the Mac, it will be
just fine. Here's a really positive note: It has never crashed or
locked up...yet. What a feeling!<br>
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> Larry Crutcher<br>
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> On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Joel Davidson wrote:<br>
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>> Wrenches,<br>
>> Some Wrenches include their notebook computer among their
most valued tools. My 2001 IBM T23 notebook has served me well in the
office and on the road, but it is getting a little long in the tooth.
What notebook computer do you all recommend? As always, thank you very
much for your valuable advice.<br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> Joel Davidson<br>
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