So my new Macbook Pro has arrived!

Arrived yesterday, and I haven't stopped playing with it since

It's an incredibly high end premium product. MacOS is also such a breath of fresh air I can't believe I was ever happy using windows. I certainly won't be using windows again, and I can safe to say I am now a rabid apple fanboy!

I do have one or two questions though:

For office i'm using Microsoft Office 2008
For graphics I bought pixelmator (awesome!)
What do I use for unzipping and unraring?

Also, is there a mac equivalent of notepad or wordpad, so I can open obscure text files, or system files like you can on windows and edit their contents?

 

I am a new mac convert also
Bought my Macbook Pro on the 8th of Feb Loving it

 

Congrats man!

I AFAIK,mac os has default tools for both unzip and text.

 

Congrats to both of you. This forum helped me quite a bit when I received my MBP this month. My most recent OMG moment was setting up a shared printer. In Vista I had to wait forever for the OS to find the printer on the network and even then it wouldn't work half the time. In OS X it popped right up, was installed in seconds and has worked flawlessly so far.

 

Mac BuiltIn TextEdit!

cheers ...

 

Give Zipeg a shot - cool tool

cheers ...

 

welcome to the group. apple os x is awesome!! if only i didnt do programming, i wouldnt have to boot up windows partition. i had such a hard time setting up vista with all the drivers working perfectly. some of the drivers supplied by apple are awful when installed under vista. i had windows 7 and never had audio crackling and freezing issues. vista is a failure.

for unzipping, you could use unrarx

 

StuffIt Expander (free version) will work for many types of compression... its an old Mac favorite... but really with OSX you don't need to install anything, you should be able to unzip and stuff without a 3rd party program.

For doing text documents you can use TextEdit.app its installed by default and handles txt, rtf, and doc files.

 

Congrats to the both of you
I'm still procrastinating on my MBP--oh I just need to rob a bank
Lynn

 

Congrats man! I think unrarx is good for .rar and PixelMator is great too!

 

I use StuffIt Deluxe (not the latest version). I got it last year and it's been great. It handles just about anything (.rar included) and allows for encrypting and password-protecting archives. For other basic archiving and unzipping, OSX's built-in utility handles them well. And there is a text editor built into OSX which is kinda like Notepad in windows.

 

Congrats on your purchase and welcome to the Mac community! You'll find it to be a warm and safe place (from the evil empire).