New Black macbook owner,

hey whats up guys, im new to apple and macbook i've been a pc fan for almost 8 years, i bought the black one with 2.0ghz and 80gig harddrive, i've read some previous posts about cleaning out the mac before installing anything important i read that a bit to late haha, well im trying to play my AVI movies on my Macbook so i can watch them inbetween my classes. any idea what programs i would need? i tried flip4mac, 3ivx and i cant get a picture to appear. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just went through fresh install myslef - and had the same issues.
Here's what I did.
1. Download VLC player - comes with all kinds of codecs so you may play avi files right away
2. you can play avi files on QuickTime - first downlaod the codecs from perian.org (http://perian.org) - once you've got them installed into the right folder - you can play avi's on QT - you have find the right folder - under systems/library/QuickTime - if I remember corectly
Anyway the program will guide you through it
IMPORTANT NOTE - I wasnt getting sound on QuickTime at first - but then I tried playing the avi file using front row and it worked from then on - WHY? I DON NOT KNOW - but if you can't get sound - try front row
Good Luck

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Hi there!
I just made the jump to the "Apple side" buying a shiny new Black Macbook, and having already got a lot of usefull information from this forum, I just wanted to give my little contribution...
Here follows how I managed to copy ALL my Microsoft Outlook Express messages, settings and accounts from my "old" PC to my new MacBook:
I just installed Mozilla Thunderbird on my PC and let the automated "import" function transfer all my data from Outlook Express; then I installed Thunderbird to the MacBook too (skipping all the setup procedures that start at the first run of the program).
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The last step is to edit the Thunderbird "profiles.ini" file on the Mac, replacing the name of default folder that was assigned during the installation (which you can safely delete), with the name of the one copied from the PC...
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I have a friend (no, seriously) that just made "the switch" and moved to a black MacBook at my urging. It's brand new, but from day 1 he has been complaining that anything he plugs into one of the USB ports keeps dropping out randomly. He said he found on some website that this is just a MacBook issue and that the solution is to use the other port. Then today he said the other one intermittently started drop out too.
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Hey guys.
I use Scratch Live also, and BTW its Serato.
anyway, this is quite the problem over at Scratchlive.net
Many of the users have run tests and have come to the conclusion that when the SL1 box is plugged into the "bad" port, that being the USB closest to the firewire cable, it is somehow linked to the track pad, and therefore goes into some kind of sleep mode. If you leave the trackpad alone, when the SL1 box is plugged into that port, let it sit for 20 seconds, then touch the pad you will get a drop out.
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Update to my item 4 as there were some typo errors in it (sorry about that).
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Got it!
Does this modification void guarantee?
No.
How would you go about doing this?
Follow this video.
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/macbook/macbook/high. html
Is it worth it?
It is if you have a lot of apps running at once like I do, or if you are running RAM-hungry applications like Photoshop.
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EDIT:
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You could stick 2-2GB modules in there, but the logic board only recognizes 3G in MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The new MacBook Pro model will recognize 4GB now though.
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All of these steps are exactly what you need to do.
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