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    Just purchased a Macbook pro 13!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by niko2021, Oct 6, 2011.

  1. niko2021

    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, I just bought my macbook air, and it is really amazing. Although I am fairly new to the mac operating system, it is fairly easy to use. But since I am new, I know there are things I don't know that can be really beneficial. Like I just figured out I had to turn on the firewall, even though the OS is pretty secure, I like the added protection. Is there anything else, whether it be programs, commands, or tips I should know/get? Thank you.
     
    niko2021, Oct 6, 2011
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  2. Steven

    Steven God Amongst Mere Mortals

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    You puzzle me. Your signature says you own a M14X yet you say you own a macbook pro in the title and than you proceed to say you own a macbook air in the body text.
     
    Steven, Oct 6, 2011
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  3. niko2021

    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

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    oh sorry, Yes I meant macbook air, OS would be the same anyways. And I can't own an alienware m14x along with a macbook air? ;)
     
    niko2021, Oct 6, 2011
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  4. Mitlov

    Mitlov Shiny

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    Congrats! I think it was a really smart move to get the MBA 13 over the MBP 13 stuff for your day-to-day stuff. That and the M14x should be a nice pair together. Time to update the sig!
     
    Mitlov, Oct 6, 2011
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  5. lamnk

    lamnk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not really necessary but if you want a firewall, turn on builtin firewall functionality for inbound connections, and use LittleSnitch for outbound. LittleSnitch is quite verbose, will ask you a lot, but it works as advertised: specify what programms are allowed to make a connection with which servers.
     
    lamnk, Oct 6, 2011
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  6. Lieto

    Lieto Notebook Deity

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    You need VLC and codecs. Thats the only must have app i can think about.
    Quicktime doesnt play $ht .
     
    Lieto, Oct 7, 2011
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    Koopatrooper Notebook Enthusiast

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    Congrats on the MBP 13, I hope to be joining the club very soon.
     
    Koopatrooper, Oct 21, 2011
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  8. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    VLC plays pretty much anything. You don't need to download codecs separately, it's built into VLC.
     
    masterchef341, Oct 21, 2011
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  9. no1up

    no1up Notebook Evangelist

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    Hehe... sold my asus g73 and got a 2010 13 mbp... I love it!!
     
    no1up, Oct 21, 2011
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  10. AppleUsr

    AppleUsr Notebook Deity

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    The 2011 macbook air is a nice machine. enjoy it and check out these apps.

    caffeine is a nice program. it keeps your machine awake when your trying to do long operations like burning ripping or copying a large amount of files. annoying that your machine will sleep when doing these things. youd think that it wouldnt but it does.

    clipmenu is a clipboard history app. works great and sits in your menu bar. quickly go through anything youve copied.

    I also use weatherbug for mac. this puts the temperature in your menu bar.
     
    AppleUsr, Oct 22, 2011
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  11. dangello

    dangello Newbie

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    I have a MBP 13" for 1 week!!! its amazing but i have a little difficulties.

    I bought from aventura apple retail, and they sold me box sealed, but when i unboxed noticed that it came without disks!!! i know lion its on the "cloud" but i would like to have a recovery disk, do you knock how i can do this?
     
    dangello, Oct 24, 2011
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  12. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    yeah, they no longer ship recovery discs at all... I found that out recently. I find it rather annoying.
     
    doh123, Oct 24, 2011
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