cool! This is exactly why I wouldn't buy a computer, tablet, or phone from BestBuy for anything. I avoid that place like it had the plague.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:53 AM, Erik Heil <ehe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey chris, > Congrats! I don't have a Mac myself, but I'm using this list as a learning > experience when I do get a Mac, which hopefully should be in the near future. > i"ll have to admit that Alex is one of the major highlights of the Mac > experience imho. So, you're on a winning streak. BTW if you wanted to run > Windows on the same machine as OSX, there's no reason why you can't run it > within a virtual machine. You mentioned your specs, and for a serious VM > installation, its not possible, but you could do basic tasks with a Windows > VM. Allocate 1GB of RAM to it, and Windows should run OK. Not ideally, but it > would be a at least functional experience. > --Erik > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com> wrote: > Nice one Chris. I'm not a full Mac user due to having to use Windows at work. > On 4 Feb 2013, at 11:37 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I did it! I actually? did it! Just two days ago, on Saturday, I went up to >> Best Buy and with a chunk of extra income I had this month, I bit the bullet >> and bought me a mac mini! So now I have my 13 inch mid 2010 white macbook, >> and I also now have this mini. I am taking the mini back to swap, as Best >> Buy messed up though. They gave me an opened box mid 2011 model. They >> didn't even tell me it was opened. Imagine my horror when I got home and >> tried with its serial number to register it. It told me the purchase date I >> entered was not correct. When I called Apple, they told me it had been >> purchased by someone else over a year ago. We went and looked in the About >> this Mac page and saw it was a mid 2011, not the newest 2012 model. That >> really pissed me off. Anyway, I called Best Buy and spoke with the manager. >> He was extremely apologetic, and said if I could run it up there, he'd swap >> it for no cost for the correct newer 2012 model. I love this system as is, >> but it's only got the I5, 2GB ram, where what I wanted was the I5 4GB ram. >> NOt only that but I discovered this morning earlier when trying to charge my >> IPhone, that one of the USB ports is bad. I'm not very happy about this >> transaction, but, here is the bottom line. It's gonna get swapped, and then >> I'll use Migration assistance and move all my stuff from the macbook back >> over which won't take but maybe an hour or so, so really, I'm honestly not >> very concerned as far as losing data. I have this thing right now hooked up >> to my 5.1 home theater system via HDMI, high deff, and I gotta tell you, >> sitting here now typing this e-mail on the thing… this is amazing! I never >> thought Alex could sound so good through a set of surround speakers. I >> shutter to think once I get the new system with the 4GB ram how good this >> will be. I actually don't even have my windows desktop hooked up any more. >> If I absolutely must do windows, I have a Dell Inspiron system I can use in >> a pinch, although I'd rather not, if I can help it. LOL! >> >> Anyway, I am so glad to finally officially be a full mac user! I still find >> myself wanting to fall back on Windows, but my guess is now that I don't >> have an easy way to do so, in time I'll get more used to things over here. >> I know what I'm doing, it's just a bit awkward. >> >> Anyway, just wanted to share. 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