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Just got my 2011 MacBook Pro 15"

DivideBYZero

DivideBYZero

Lifer
W00t! Turned up two days early, vs the date given when I ordered. I got a 15" with the upgraded hi-res screen, 2.0 i7 Quad, and 4Gb RAM. I'm quite happy to upgrade the RAM myself if I feel the need, or if I start running VMs on here on a regular basis.

So I'm mostly going to be doing video editing on this, and I have VoltaicHD converting my AVCHD files as I type. It's a replacement for my aging Win XP Core2Duo E6400 that ran @ 3.2Ghz w/2Gb RAM and a 1950 Pro.

So, any tips, tricks, etc? I'm currently working through a guide to enable me to TimeMachine to my Windows Home Server. I have the terminal on my dock (I'm a *nix veteran and have been sudo su already today on this thing...!), so nothing is out of my reach or capability. What are the must have/must do things to make this experience as great as possible?
 
Let me know if you ever get Time Machine to talk with WHS. I gave up and just bought a separate external unit to time machine my Macbook Pro and iMac.
 
I've set up time machine on a linux share before and it was really simple. Never done it with WHS though.

Make sure you learn your swipe gestures. The 4-finger swipes for expose are awesome.
 
silverpig said:
I've set up time machine on a linux share before and it was really simple. Never done it with WHS though.

Make sure you learn your swipe gestures. The 4-finger swipes for expose are awesome.
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Yeah, I have set up gestures and right click in the bottom right corner.
 
Congrats. Be sure to check the app store for free/low cost apps and update to lion when it comes out.
 
Heh, OK, this is cool. I have set up TimeMachine to back up to my Windows Home Server and it's doing the initial backup right now. I'll write it up in a separate post here in a few days as there are some guides out there but all are a little wrong in one way or another so I'd like to post a proper guide with clear steps.
 
I'd appreciate a guide. All I could determine is that I needed a spare HD formatted hfs in the WHS box and not part of the drive extender pool, which defeats the purpose of using WHS for Time Machine backups if you ask me. The external drive I have works well, so I might not try the WHS deal again, but it would be interesting to see your walkthrough.
 
nerp said:
I'd appreciate a guide. All I could determine is that I needed a spare HD formatted hfs in the WHS box and not part of the drive extender pool, which defeats the purpose of using WHS for Time Machine backups if you ask me. The external drive I have works well, so I might not try the WHS deal again, but it would be interesting to see your walkthrough.
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I have it working. Basically, all you need to do is create a disk image local and then move it over to the WHS, and point time machine there. I'll try to dig up the walk through that helped, but if you Google it there are tons of people making guides about it.
 
nerp said:
I'd appreciate a guide. All I could determine is that I needed a spare HD formatted hfs in the WHS box and not part of the drive extender pool, which defeats the purpose of using WHS for Time Machine backups if you ask me. The external drive I have works well, so I might not try the WHS deal again, but it would be interesting to see your walkthrough.
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In essence you need to follow this:
http://www.horto.ca/?p=12

But replace the NAS unit with a share you set up on WHS. I have a user for my Mac with a 'MacBackup' folder share for TM use.
 
It might sound counter-intuitive coming from XP, but try using two fingers click to right click instead of the bottom right corner. I almost guarantee you like it better.
 
GregGreen said:
It might sound counter-intuitive coming from XP, but try using two fingers click to right click instead of the bottom right corner. I almost guarantee you like it better.
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Word.

It will become second nature after a while since then you can click/right click/scroll anywhere on the pad.
 
Best tip- download "BetterTouchTool"

You can do SO much with it. Both in universal settings and application specific settings.

3 examples of how i use it: 3 finger tap is "middle click" so when wanting to open a new tab in a browser i dont right click then open new tab on a link, I just three finger tap.

I have four finger tap set up so that it means Control+W and closes a tab/window. Works awesome.

In Kindle for Mac only (application specific) i have a three finger swipe set up for the direction function (right and left) so that i can "flip" pages.

The app is free and also sets up aero snap like features for the windows and tons more. This is just a bit, but i have to say it is the single best thing i've ever gotten for OSX.
 
Hmm, interesting, I'll check it out.

TimeMachine update: Don't do the initial backup over WiFi... It's copied ~80Gb so far and taken over a day to get there. I should have hooked it up to Ethernet before starting it...
 
It seems it's already set up to two finger click for right, but I kinda like the bottom right, except for when I hit the area when trying to do a normal click, at which point it's the worst idea ever. We'll see.
 
DivideBYZero said:
It seems it's already set up to two finger click for right, but I kinda like the bottom right, except for when I hit the area when trying to do a normal click, at which point it's the worst idea ever. We'll see.
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Do you tap click at all? With tap clicking you don't need to hit the 'button area', since the trackpad is so large you don't need to reconfigure your hand to click/right click/scroll/swipe, anything.
 
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