Finally got a Mac

[boomhower]

After ~20 years of Windows use I finally bought a Mac. Started with an iPad 2 that lead to an iPhone 4S purchase. I decided to go all in and got the Macbook. I picket up a refurbed 15" Macbook Pro. I thought about the Retina but between everything being essentially non upgradable and all the scaling issues I decided to stick with the older tech. I did want a 2012 for USB 3 but that wasn't worth $500, IB and faster USB wasn't worth $500 to me. So far I love it. Added a 256GB Crucial M4 and 8GB's of ram. Attempted to move the stock drive to the optical bay but the no luck. Waiting on a magnetic torx driver to get the DVD back in. Of course my dumb ass didn't check to make sure the DVD worked before I took it out. We'll see this weekend.

So far I'm liking the OS but it is certainly a change. Having to look up how to do darn near everything is frustrating but I acclimating well. What I am in love with is the quality of the notebook itself. The construction is just amazing. After years a plastic notebooks it's a hell of a nice change.

Just for an FYI, internet recovery takes way to damned long. Not including a way to make a USB recovery is insane.

 

[MrX8503]

Congrats. Yeah it took me a year to get used to the new OS. There isn't another laptop built like the mbp, which is what got me to pick one up.

I believe there's a way to create a USB recovery stick, can't remember if it's possible or legal

 

[boomhower]

Congrats. Yeah it took me a year to get used to the new OS. There isn't another laptop built like the mbp, which is what got me to pick one up.

I believe there's a way to create a USB recovery stick, can't remember if it's possible or legal

Only way I could find was to buy a copy of Lion. It's not a much deal as Mountain Lion is coming out shortly and once I buy that I'll be able to. Not that it really matters as I don't intend on doing a reinstall anytime soon. From what everyone says the OS doesn't need a yearly reinstall like Windows, we'll see.

 

[Eug]

Lion Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

Built right into OS X Lion, Lion Recovery lets you repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disc.

The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.

Note: This just installs the recovery utils on the USB drive. You only need 1 GB. I burned the Lion installer to dual-layer DVD. Works fine.

BTW, why did you need to use the recovery? For swapping the drive all you have to do is clone the data over to the new drive.

 

[boomhower]

Lion Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

Built right into OS X Lion, Lion Recovery lets you repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disc.

The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.

Note: This just installs the recovery utils on the USB drive. You only need 1 GB. I burned the Lion installer to dual-layer DVD. Works fine.

BTW, why did you need to use the recovery? For swapping the drive all you have to do is clone the data over to the new drive.

Thanks! Haven't tried obviously but from reading your post to having the USB stick made took 3 minutes. I'm really starting to enjoy this OS.