Thread: I just bought an Apple Mac Pro Laptop

Can anyone tell me some of the tricks it can do.

I only surf the web and download movies.

But are there any other special apps that I could utilize?

Cheers.

You can drag applications to your menu bar at the bottom of the screen. Then Left click on an application and choose options. There you can tell it to start it when you turn on the machine.

Hey Dude,"
If you are watching the "The Dude" Lebowski" on your Mac laptop , download , install for free
VLC media player for Mac's , plays most formats.

VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X

Originally Posted by barbaro

Can anyone tell me some of the tricks it can do.

I only surf the web and download movies.

But are there any other special apps that I could utilize?

Cheers.

You are not supposed to use it for any reason ! Just carry it around with you and you will impress all the other dopes who carry them.

If you want to create back ups, download SuperDuper. It makes a bootable back-up so you can start up with an old configuration if your hard disk dies. My old MacBook had a drive die after eight years and it was pretty cool to boot up the back up and see my old desktop icons, and then just slide the disk image over to the new drive. I've also used Sophos Anti Virus but it has never found anything.

Hi Dude,
Also here is a link to Whirlpool Forums, in Aussie, many topics on Apple, just ask away or just search for answers, free to join if need to ask questions..and its all in English.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/38

Originally Posted by barbaro

Can anyone tell me some of the tricks it can do.

They are waterproof so you can use it quite safely in the bath, shower or swimming pool.

Being the extremely thick person I am because I to have one have just followed the above advice and now mine don't work

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Being the extremely thick person I am because I to have one have just followed the above advice and now mine don't work

Pour alcohol onto it and set it alight for 1 minute.
This will dry out residual moisture.

Please take photographs.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Being the extremely thick person I am because I to have one have just followed the above advice and now mine don't work

Yours is the old model, barbara's will be fine.

Originally Posted by thailazer

Command-Shift-4 turns your cursor into a screen shot grabber. Just stretch it to what you want to grab. Image gets put either on your desktop or documents.

Command-Q turns off whatever application you are in.

Command-(plus sign or minus sign) changes your text and screen size.

Congrats on the new machine.

Thanks for this!

Originally Posted by biff

Hey Dude,"
If you are watching the "The Dude" Lebowski" on your Mac laptop , download , install for free
VLC media player for Mac's , plays most formats.

VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X

Yeah, good call.

I use VLC on my old laptop for downloading torrents. It's great.

Cheerio.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by barbaro

Can anyone tell me some of the tricks it can do.

They are waterproof so you can use it quite safely in the bath, shower or swimming pool.

Thanks but that's too risky. One lead and....bad....bad.

OP: Why?

No offense, but I can get a decent ACER for about a tenth of the price that does everything my wife needs a laptop to do.

What do you do with a piece of kit like this that makes it worth in the range of $2000?

Not being critical, just don't get it.....

CTRL + CMND + F3 Opens a secret chilled stealth meat smuggling compartment.

Also, standing it up sideways and setting it in concrete makes an attractive bookend/paperweight.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

What do you do with a piece of kit like this that makes it worth in the range of $2000?

Not being critical, just don't get it.....

it is the first step to admitting ones secret gay side. Its a small price to pay.

C'mon people - this is barbara we're talking about.

If he can figure out how to switch it on it'll be a major achievement by his standards.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

C'mon people - this is barbara we're talking about.

so thus he probably did not buy the mac pro - just started a thread

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

C'mon people - this is barbara we're talking about.

so thus he probably did not buy the mac pro - just started a thread

Which is a step up from his old "Apple Macbook Pros; Discuss" threads.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Being the extremely thick person I am because I to have one have just followed the above advice and now mine don't work

Pour alcohol onto it and set it alight for 1 minute.
This will dry out residual moisture.

Please take photographs.

If it is still not working just put it in the tumble dryer for half and hour - warm setting only to avoid damage!

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

OP: Why?

No offense, but I can get a decent ACER for about a tenth of the price that does everything my wife needs a laptop to do.

What do you do with a piece of kit like this that makes it worth in the range of $2000?

Not being critical, just don't get it.....

The base entry MacBook Pro is in the region of $1200, fitted with the latest Haswell 4 th gen Intel dual core i5 chip, has retina display, 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD flash storage with Intel Iris graphics. It's also very whizzy to look at and to touch.

Frankly, fpr that build quality and spec the price is similar to other laptops in the range by Samsung, Acer etc.

You are not comparing like with like. Apple just don't sell sell cheap stuff whereas other manufacturers do but they also compete with Apple and where they do prices are broadly similar.

Also, it comes with a splendid OS with many useful applications which are free.