I'm usually running about a 1.0 with my usual set of apps running and
just sitting there. My MacBook i7 has 4 dual-thread CPUs so fully-loaded
would be a 4.0 so about 25% of available CPU time. I think disk I/O is a
bigger factor now days than CPU speed. Machines with flash drives are
much more zippy.
Most folks seem to lean towards Apple's iWorks suite which should have
come with your machine. MS has still not made Office accessible on the
Mac although there are rumors and the various open office variants seems
to have various holes in their UI. So it seems like iWorks is the least
painful of the bunch. If you just want wordprocessing the included
textedit app is actually not bad. There are also some individual
packages which various people have mentioned on the list like Nisus
Writer and Bean.
CB
On 1/23/15 12:34 PM, deedra waters wrote:
I’m finally getting nice and comfortable with my macbook air and i also managed
to solve the problem with osx and vmware and eating the capslock…..Turns out
that in vmware the command key acts as a numpad insert. this allows me to use
the speakup laptop layout and i’m happy. Also using the vm to ssh back into the
macbook environment as someone suggested previously. This leads me to a few
questions now……Sorry if this gets long!
1. I noticed my load average is almost constantly at 1.0 is this normal for
macbook airs and how can i cut down on the load since it looks to be the
operating system doing it and not any programs i’m running i tested this by
closing everything. Art there things i can change to make it run any better
then it already does? Such as turning off visual type stuff like you can with
windows sometimes.
2. I’m looking for some sort of thing that would let me have a look at and play
tarot cards….(overwelming curiousity heh.)
lastly, are there tutorials out there for the office suit used on the mac as
well as does someone have a url for the finder podcasts that were done recently?
Hmm one more thing. I’m looking for an astrological calendar I can’t tell but i
dont think the calendar app has one. If someone has suggestions for this i’d
appreciate it.
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deedra waters
dee...@the-brannons.com
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