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Your Search Advisor is now a Mac shop. All one of us. Well, two if you count Zach the intern who still owns a cooler Mac than his boss. I must be paying him too much, which is hard to comprehend because he works for free. Sucker.
Until yesterday, I ran nearly every facet of my business from a well-worn 3-year old HP Pavilion DV5000. She was a great little workhorse. Like most workhorses though, she steadily and unknowingly worked herself to the point of failure and had to be put down. Her battery, power source and AC adapter would get so hot I can only refer to it as “going nuclear”. It actually melted the internal workings of the AC adapter. Yes, I smelled smoke and my first reaction was “Hallelujah”. I had been waiting for it to kick the bucket and knew it was only a matter of time.
Within a day I had broken all emotional ties and didn’t even wait for the signed death certificate before shopping around for a newer, sleeker MacBook. I picked up a mid-range white model at the Apple Store in Briarwood Mall and I’m now in the process of transferring all the files, music, photos, and games from the old system to the new. I borrowed an AC adapter to revive the HP just long enough to dump everything on my external hard drive and re-image the hard disk with a fresh install of Windows XP. This baby ain’t done yet. She’s got eBay written all over her.
My new MacBook and I (I’m taking name suggestions, btw) are still solidly in the honeymoon phase, but I can already tell we have some serious issues to work through if we are going to survive the inevitable buyer’s remorse. For instance, the HP had faithfully stored dozens of passwords for me so I wouldn’t have to remember them each time I wanted to log into my favorite web apps. So now I’m locked out of a few until I take the time to reset each one. And I had PC versions of Photoshop, MS Office, and several other borrowed expensive software suites that will now have to be downloaded again replaced. I’m sure I’ll be able to shed my emotional baggage before too long.
So, MacFolk, I ask you to leave a comment with one or two of your favorite Mac programs that I can’t live without. I already know I need VMWare Fusion, Windows XP (I can’t work without some Windows-only software), TextMate, and a few others. What else would you recommend?
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