New to macbooks, some questions

Hi!
I'm thinking of getting a Macbook for Uni in September because XP sickens me with its crashing and errors and general slowness! So basically I have a few questions!
Looking at the base model and upgrading the RAM from 1GB to 2GB.
I might want to use Bootcamp and run XP at some point. Does Bootcamp come free, and as standard with the Macbook? Also, would the base 120GB hard drive be sufficient room for running both OSX and XP if I decide to do so?
Does the macbook come with any decent word processing/office programs as standard, or would I need to buy these? If so, is iWork good?
I'll be using university discount, so will save £100+. I've also read that as part of the student discount there's a warranty extended to 3 years. Is this correct or just a myth?
Also..will it take long to get used to everything? I've been using windows for 10 years+
All I can think of for now, sure more stuff will pop into my head at some point!
Cheers
Paul

Hi, Im a 1st year university student and rely on my MacBook for uni work so I can relate to your concerns (sorry for the essay like reply!)...
Firstly to clear things up, yes!!, since 1st Oct 2007 you now get an *extended 3 years of hardware warranty as part Apple's HE (Higher Education) national contract in the UK*. I actually got my MacBook start of 2007, had a hardware issue and thought i was out of the warranty period but was thrilled to find out I had another 2 years due to the extension . All the perks of being a uni student
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/hed/nationalcontract/
So definitely buy your MacBook from the Apple Store's education store to take advantage of this extended warranty, and also of their discounts. Be sure to buy from the Apple Store for *Higher Education*, you'll get bigger discounts:
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/uk/Images/routingpage.html
Problem is you can only get onto the HE website from your University's network (are you already at university or are you starting in September?). Although on your home computer, after logging in on the UCAS website, you might be able to find a dedicated link to the Apple HE Store. I'd recommend just giving them a call and you can give them proof of applying to university if you're not there yet.
Also i used iWork for the first term, but found i had a few formatting issues and compatibility issues when transferring and opening documents on Windows (which my University computers are). Also to save in Pages (word equivalent in iWork), u keep having to select 'Export' and there is no autosave facility to .doc format. Basically it's not very .doc friendly. I'd suggest Microsoft Office for Mac, a lot less fiddly and more convenient in this respect.
Also forgot to mention, apparently the MacBook is due for a complete redesign this year and i suspect the next generation of MacBook to come out in June or summer time, if you're not at Uni yet, maybe it's worth the wait seeing as though you mentioned uni in Sept? Otherwise u might be gutted if you buy one now?
Hope that helps.
Kenny

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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).
Then, on the "PC side", I located the folder where all the Thunderbird profile data is stored: it is something like "xxxxxxxx.default" (in my case "voakmfhs.default") and is stored in "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows_User\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles"
So it was just a matter of copying all the "xxxxxxxx.default" folder from the PC to the Mac (on the "Mac side" just search for the "Thunderbird" folder and then open the "Profiles" subfolder where you have to copy all the stuff)
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...
For any further question, feel free to ask
Hope this is of some help!
Ciao for now
Sergio

Transferring from old to new
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

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I got myself a MacBook Air yesterday after long time of wondering if I should. First impression - I'm quite happy for this sturdy little machine with great battery life. I have OS X 10.9.2 with the latest updates.
It will take me a while to get used to the touchpad as I have always preferred laptops with trackpoint.
So, few question.. and more to come, I hope you can help me with these. Some question might be very simple and some come from Linux/Unix background. I'd like to modify the system so that it will bring the best for me from both worlds.
1) How to 'middle click' on chromium using only touchpad? I want to open links to a new background tab. This feature seems to work with combination of 'command' key and click, but I have not yet figured out how to do with single click. If I use two finger click, I get the 'right click' with various options. Yet this is not what I want.
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/dev/disk2s2 130Mi 117Mi 13Mi 90% 29949 3349 90% /Volumes/vlc-2.1.4
7) Does timemachine backup all the system settings as well? Can it be used to do the backup for a) local disk external disk c) to NAS?
Quite a few question, but it would be very helpful if you could find the time to answer these. When I get more used to the system, I try to return the favours
Thanks!

2. For text, it works just like Windows (Cmd+C, Cmd+X, Cmd+V). For files, OS X doesn't "Cut". You have to drag files locally to "move" them. And to external drives or flash drives, there is only "copy". You can't "move" files. Within the drive, you can move them, however.
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So yeah, does anybody have an answer to this question? Can the flash hard drives in the new Macbook Pro Retina Display laptops, just released, be upgraded/replaced in the future? Any answers are greatly appreciated and will save me some much needed cash on my purchase of one of these laptops! And I should also ask, if so, can they be replaced by the laptop owner with the normal toolset through the normal, easily done methods of hard drive replacement in laptops that has been common, or would I have to bring the laptop to a Apple technician?
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macsales.com has been working on providing aftermarket modules for the older models that were on the SATA Bus.
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Hi all,
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