finally switched to mac, need help.

[fackedd]

my pc cut out on me twice on my sunday night gig so I have had enough lol, granted it was a shitty $350 budget pc.... but still.

anyway ordered a refurbished i5 mac when i got home, so it should arrive by tuesday or wednesday. So i've never used a mac before so i'm a complete noob and this laptop will be used purely for dj'ing is there any videos / information i should watch and read to learn how to use it? also do I need to optimize it in anyway for live dj'ing?

cheers.

[Mitch]

i know the apple site has a few vids on transitioning from windows to mac:

http://www.apple.com/au/findouthow/mac/

[Mitch]

and make sure you get a rebate for a free upgrade to lion

[CBG]

There is a book called:

'Switching to MAC: The missing manual' i think its called.

I read the first 30 pages or so one day, bloody awesome, so easy to read

[LabRat]

apple forums, that book that CBG mentioned and just any sort of web info you can find

[fackedd]

pretty impressed so far, everything was pretty much plug n play in terms of my DVS setup which was awesome.... no drivers needed for my soundcard ect ect.

Slowly getting used it it ahha.

is this the guide you guys were talking about?

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514129

[LabRat]

That could be it. Anything Mac related will be fine. Even the dummies series. Will be better if you know someone that has one si they can show ya

[fackedd]

yeah id prefer a free guide anyway, considering i just spent $1200 on this.

[Gandy]

pretty impressed so far, everything was pretty much plug n play in terms of my DVS setup which was awesome.... no drivers needed for my soundcard ect ect.

Slowly getting used it it ahha.

is this the guide you guys were talking about?

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514129

welcome to the good life

[fackedd]

yeah bro i was amazed, i just plugged the shit in and it worked haha.

[CBG]

yeah thats the book. theres an ebook floating around you can grab of it

[imadje]

I just did same thing from pc to mac about 4 weeks ago, have an i5 refurb too so swap tips back if you get any ey?

dont know if you use itunes on pc but this really helped me transfer everything from pc itunes to mac (including playlists and comments etc)

http://lifehacker.com/242468/geek-to-li ... c-and-back

also for audio: you can plug and play but for guaranteed live stability disable - time machine, bluetooth, dashboard, remote control and when actually playing turn off airport.

everything else will be done in whatevr software you use.

one tip i like: coz i'm a big fan of having a right button on my pc mouse i set the bottom left hand corner of my mac trackpad to act as a right button. go to system preferences/trackpad and set secondary click to be bottom right corner.

[fackedd]

yeah man already disabled all that stuff from checking out some other threads.

AND DUDE.... thanks so much about the right click thing haha, I was having a hard time adjusting to hold down control or command or whatever to act as a right click.

as a whole i like the trackpad, especially with this info you just gave me. Seems to be very customisable as in it can tell how many fingers you have on it to perform different commands ect ect.

cheers boss.

[imadje]

I was having a hard time adjusting to hold down control or command or whatever to act as a right click.

^exactly my issue bud, no worries.

[Gandy]

you know if you press with 2 fingers on the track pad its a right click yea?

[imadje]

^yep, just old habits dieing hard, i always want to use a right click.

love the 4finger show all windows move tho.