I GOT my first mac

Hey guys, I just got my macbook yesterday. Really excited and played around the cool features for hours, no problem at all. Although I notice the edge of the palm rest is not perfectly aligned, I can live with it happily. Nothing is perfect, right? Glad to join the community, I love my macbook.

Welcome to Apple's Support Forum.
Everyone is very helpful here and 99.9% you get your questions answered or problems fixed.
Apple has great support themselves within your 1 year protection plan.
Also if you are willing to spend the money i would recommend you to buy the Apple Extra protection plan that extends your warranty.
Unfortunately, like Craig said for lcoulter he is having a bad experience with apple.
But if you do end up having some program problems or anything.
Report or ask it on these Discussion forums .
Everyone are soo helpful! i've exprieneced it first hand!

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I just got my first mac and can anyone tell me how to change my address book to look like an actual book?

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Have Fun and a Very Merry Christmas to you.

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Just got my first mac, and I think I accidentally erased chess...

Stupid me...
I'm a brand new mac user... I was trying to move the chess icon from the application folder to the dock but I released the mouse early and ended up making a shortcut on my desktop. I then dragged that chess icon from my desktop into the dock and deleted the icon from my desktop into the trash and emptied the trashcan thinking it was just a shortcut. When I tried to click the chess icon left on the dock it would not open. I tried several times and it just doesnt work. So I then deleted it from the dock thinking it would still be in the applications folder. I was wrong... Can someone please school this rookie and tell me how to get chess back... Thanks in advance for the help...

Hello c:
I am not sure if it is included on the software install DVD that came with your system. Sometimes pre-installed non-Apple software is not there. Take a look. Also, do a find on "chess" to see if it is still on your system.
I looked at my own copy and it was distributed through something called +"GNU software."+
Barry

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This is a handy reference for your move from PC to Mac
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
These are good pages on the iTunes Library move:
http://www.techdc.com/move-itunes-from-pc-to-mac
http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/21/copy-itunes-library-from-a-pc-to-a-mac/
There's even a video:
http://www.applesource.com.au/how-to/soa/Moving-your-iTunes-library-from-PC-to-M ac/0,2000451082,339289880,00.htm
If you have any issues post again

I got my first Mac 2 weeks ago, a Macbook Pro. I can't get it to scan on my HP Laserjet1217 nfwMFP all in one. It prints (wirelessly) just fine. But when I try to scan, it says something like "no scanners available". Wireless or connected, it's the same.

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Allan 113

I would check with HP. Your scanner may need a firmware update and updated HP software. Start here:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-search/search-results.html?qt=LaserJet+m1217nfw+MFP& cc=us&lang=en&charset=utf-8&qp=&hpn=&hpa=&hps=&hpr=&cat=&current_url=CSSres
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How did you feel about your first mac?

As an early christmas present I received a 13 inch macbook air, 2GB RAM and 1.86GHz dual core cpu.
I am mostly used to PC laptops running linux or often I put solaris on them. I study Computer Science and have Asperger's Syndrome.
I got my mac as windows had too much bloatware and Linux was too unstable on my 64-bit hardware (needed 6 GiB RAM for large compilations). I was going to use the macbook air to take notes and some minor work between classes such as writing assembly subroutines, C and java. The primary use of this system was going to be as a personal assistant to have my calendar and files etc.
The system is so powerful with a full 12 hours battery life when working on the localhost that it can out-do a 2.4GHz dual core with 6 GiB RAM PC running any OS. This system is now used for all my work due to it's capabilities and portability. After only one week with a mac I dont know how I lived without one, and my carer says it has made me show immense improvements day-to-day. I am now tempted to learn Objective-C as well as how to use Cocoa from Python to be more efficient, especially after seeing the perfection in this system.
How did you feel when you got your first mac?

A related question might be, what did you think about the introduction of the IBM PC?
I had been designing digital systems and working with computers for a few years before the PC's introduction in 1981. The mainstay systems were 8 bit Z80 or 8085 machines running at 4 or 6 MHz. They ran CP/M with its command line interface. Although the maximum memory these systems could use was 64 MB, being a single user, single-task operating sytem, even the most resource-hungry programs (word processors for instance) ran very fast. CP/M itself needed only a few K.
Dual floppy disk systems were common, 180 KB per disk unless you had double sided floppies - 360 K. The A drive booted the operating system, after which you could insert a program disk. The B drive held your data. I had one machine with a whopping 5 MB hard disk - the C drive. I treated it with special reverence.
When rumors began about IBM producing its version of a desktop PC, many people including myself had grand expectations. Clearly Big Blue would emerge as the leader in desktop computers, since they had the resources to dictate what the standard would be. Everyone knew the others would be left in the dust. What kind of processor would it use? How much memory? Would it have a slimmed down version of the multiuser, multitasking operating system used in its System/34 minicomputer? Or would it resemble something that DEC used in its PDP-11?
Well, when the IBM PC came out in 1981, needless to say it was an enormous disappointment. It wasn't much better than anything else I had already been using for three or four years already, except the PC was much, much more expensive. No hard disk unless you wanted to buy an upgraded power supply (more $$$) and then all they offered was 10 MB. Forget about multiple users or multitasking. It didn't even have the equivalent of CP/M's PIP. The whole thing seemed... intentionally crippled. This was supposed to be the future of computing? In my opinion it was a major step backward. The XT that followed it offered only minimal improvements. I rejected the IBM PC as not cost effective and kept using my CP/M dinosaurs.
So, when Apple introduced the Macintosh a couple years later I finally saw, in the flesh, what I thought a computer ought to be. A totally bit mapped display, a robust 16/32 bit processor, real sound capability (everything before it could only "beep") and a true graphical UI. You could name a file anything you want, no 8x3 idiocy. +To this day+ Windows carries remnants of 8x3 filenames!
The Macintosh blew away the PC, if not in performance, in its potential. Unlike the "crippled" PC the Mac seemed limitless. This was cool. The Mac wasn't without limitations though - there was no good way to install a hard disk for instance - but for some reason I considered those limitations trivial and believed they would be overcome in the near future. I waited for the first "upgrade" - the "Fat Mac" with a whopping 512K memory. Half a megabyte!
I used that computer for several years, until the SE/30 came out, which I kept in service for about ten years. I ultimately expanded its memory to 32 MB while PC users were struggling with extended memory or expanded memory - you had to know which was which - to get beyond the PC's stupid 640K barrier. My 30 MB HD eventually grew small, but that was easily remedied with an external SCSI drive. Although the computer did everything I ever expected it to do, the Internet eventually made it functionally obsolete. It could run a browser (forget which one) but the black and white limitation made it marginally useful.
I eventually replaced it with an iMac, which echoed the original Mac's introduction with its forward-thinking design. The iMac opened up a new world in much the same way the original Macintosh did in 1984.
All my Macs still work.
yoshitaka wrote:
... After only one week with a mac I dont know how I lived without one, and my carer says it has made me show immense improvements day-to-day.
That pretty much sums it up.
In retrospect, I believe that IBM and its marriage of convenience with Microsoft delayed the evolution of desktop computing a decade or more. I cringe whenever I think of the aggregate productivity loss and utter frustration shared by millions of PC / Windows devotees all these years.

First mac, questions on managing external drives

Have been using iphones, ipods, apple tv's, ipads for a long time. Finally got my first mac (macbook air). Hoping some people can help with a few questions on external drives, I have two nas drives on my network:
- In finder each drive shows up with its official name, is there any way to give it an alias type name (in windows I would map it to a letter).
- On the NAS there is a 'share' folder with all of my content. I added this to my devices section for easy access, but again, is there a way to give this an alias? Both NAS's have 'share' folders and I can't tell the difference between them. I see an option to create an 'alias' for folders within share, but can I create an alias name that apps can recognize for the 'share' itself?
- I added the 'share' to my login list for my account to mount it on startup, is that the best way to do it? I checked the box to hide it but the finder still pops up with it on startup.
- General question on finder. When I download and install software it usually shows up on the desktop and in finder with an 'eject' button next to it. Aren't these just folders with files in them or are they something different that causes them to have an eject button? Just trying to understand how things work behind the scenes and it is confusing to see downloaded software behave like an external device that you would eject.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Really like the mac in general, but just need to adjust to all the new concepts.
Thanks,
Peter

plampione wrote:
- I added the 'share' to my login list for my account to mount it on startup, is that the best way to do it? I checked the box to hide it but the finder still pops up with it on startup.
i may have an alternative:
if you are comfortable with AppleScript, you could edit this script to suit your situation:
try
mount volume "afp://<AirPort Extreme Name>.local/<Share Volume Name>"as user name "<Share Username>" with password "<Share password>"
end try
this script just places the drive's icon on the desktop. save it as an application and add that to your login items.
credit for the script goes to Tesserax.
When I download and install software it usually shows up on the desktop and in finder with an 'eject' button next to it. Aren't these just folders with files in them or are they something different that causes them to have an eject button?
those are .dmg's (disk images).

First Mac Pro & a dumb question. Rear speaker jack won't fit "regular" plug

Ok, so I just got my first Mac Pro and the front headphone jack works with my standard computer speakers, but the rear plug doesn't seem to work with them. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting I need to enable? It the jack a different size?
The speakers I am using are a standard powered computer speaker with a standard headphone size plug.
Thanks,
Jeff

So, by default, the system had that port turned off and I need to turn it on?
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<http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/>

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I just got a new Mac Mini, and now when I try to import photos into Lightroom, iPhoto ties to load them first, then Lightroom can't find the files. Big problem. What to do?

Simple:
File -> Export to get your photos out of the iPhoto Library. In the Export dialogue you can set the kind to Original and you'll get back exactly what you put in.
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After that, if you're entirely neurotic about it, just put the iPhoto app in the trash and empty it.
Regards
TD

HT1338 new Apple I bought a Mac Pro, since I got it keeps crashing....all the time!!! It is my first Mac computer and it is horrible!!!!

I bought a new Apple I bought a Mac Pro Retina screen, since I got it keeps crashing ALL the time!!! This is my first Mac computer and I am hating it!!! I assume I can take down to the any store and they will replace it??

I have a similar problem, my MBP Retina 15" 6 weeks old crashes and locks-up all the time with just about every application. I now have gone back to using my old MS XP system, it is much more stable than Mountain Lion OS and Apple hardware. I use Window-7 at work for last 6 months, not a single crash and/or lock-up. I'm looking at returning/selling my MBP and getting a Window-8 system, Apple is now building crap hardware and software. I recommend you consider the same solution. Good Luck !

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