Mac users! Where are you?

[wase4711]

yes, so far its been pretty easy..
one quick question; have you or anyone else found a osx compatible webcam that is reasonably priced?

[orig]

Apple no longer sells it, but you can find an iSight webcam on eBay. I would really recommend the iSight.

If you want something else, you can buy almost any USB webcam and download "enablers" which will allow OS X to use an external USB webcam.

But like I said, the iSight is still the way to go, even though Apple has decided to stop selling it.

[wase4711]

well, the isight is more expensive than most 10 MP digital cameras now a days!
I am tempted to use my nikon d40 as a webcam; i understand its pretty easy on a Mac..

[rikytik]

Hey, Wase, is the 4711 on your screen name an allusion to the famous eau de Cologne? Wow, what memories I have of that. Spent 5 years in Germany in the late 50's--early 60's.

My 13" MacBook is great and am happy I made the plunge last a week. It is replacing my very nice but slow Sony T-140 I use when traveling.

I'm seriously considering an iMac to replace my desktop. After 20 years of IBM standard stuff it's a big change. I found a utility for $10 to convert my Outlook Contacts to a form importable by Entourage.

My sister has a new 15" MacBook due to arrive in a few days.

[wase4711]

no, i think the 4711 is either my IQ, or my current weight!!

Glad to hear you are getting along with your macbook; we love ours, for surfing while watching tv, or for using when sitting outside in the back yard.
My Mac Pro is simply awesum, and my wife now wants one of those new Imacs too!
yes, that utility to convert your outlook stuff works perfectly; i used it when I first converted too!

have you found alot of good Mac websites and boards yet?
If you need some, let me know...

[rikytik]

Still looking for a couple good sites. If you have a suggestion or two, I'd be very pleased to have them.

Thanks for your help.

[wase4711]

pm me, and let me know what kind of sites you are looking for ok?

[rikytik]

Hey, Wase,

'Scuse me for answering so late. I'm doing a lot of "discovery" fooling around right not with my MacBook. Joined a Mac Forum and learned some things. Mine btw is OS 10.5, 2.4 GHz.

I'd installed Fusion from get go on the theory that I wanted to be able to run an XP VM if the need arose. No needs so far, but then I decided I wanted to try out Boot Camp and install XP as a dual boot, mainly to see if it really works. Well, I've had quite a lot of wheel spinning. I'm getting a "hal.dll" missing error message at the end of the install. Very common experience with newbie OSX users. Read a lot of posts and now suspect it could be because VMWare Fusion does something to the the HD, so un-installed Fusion with the uninstall app contained in the Fusion dmg install file. This seems to be the problem and the boot camp install of XP is near it's end now.

I bought this machine to travel with and don't want to be OTL at a critical time if I can't do something I want to do with it. Main travel to my daughter in Italy will need a lot of PC maintenance, updates and stuff.

I gave her a new ACER Ferrari on my last trip and I would guess it needs a lot of sprucing up.

[wase4711]

NP with the "late answer", man...we all have lives to attend to!

Anyway, I have to reassure you that you CAN travel with just the MAC OS on the machine...I have been able to do EVERYTHING I could in windows, and LOTS MORE, so, for me, there hasn't been any desire to crap up my Mac HD with ANY version of Windows..
Isn't that the whole reason for going with MAC insted of WINTEL?

We have a laptop as well as the desktop, and its a blast to use; awesum battery life, faster in every aspect to a comparable win-tel laptop, and even though I haven't had to travel with it yet, its nice size and weight will make that a pleasure as well..

Almost 3 months into it, not a single blue screen, crash, or major disaster, and probably only had to do a force restart about twice in that time.
I leave it on 24-7; it goes to sleep when not in use, and wakes up automatically in the am at the time i set it for.

[Cyberion]

My mom recently got a Apple Air. Its very pretty and quick to boot. The only thing I don't like about it, doesn't have a DVD drive nor a built-in ethernet. However with adapters and external drives everything works like a charm.

I've recently taken a little break from my Linux exploration, re-doing the wintel on the laptop, and cleaned up the icons on my desktop, I swear its just fragmenting the HD.