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Things I love about my new mac...
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Started conversation Oct 22, 2011
The screen is wonderful! I was worried that its shininess would bother me, but it's so much better than the matt one on the old machine. I do have to be careful about light and placement but that was true for the matt screen too, only for different reasons.
Safari has this thing called Top Sites, which is a visual page that shows me a picture of all the webpages I am visiting most often and I can set ones I want to appear there. When I open a new tab, the page appears and I just click on the image I want to open. This existed on my old mac but I never used it. The bigger screen makes a difference.
Having a 17" screen is very good for me in terms of reducing the amount of scrolling I have to do when reading lots of text (had a 15" before).
It looks beautiful.
It's quiet, very quiet.
Things I love about my new mac...
turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Oct 22, 2011
There you see. Told you it would be fine. I bet it's quick as well!
Top sites in Safari is really useful as is the Reading list (a pair of specs symbol in the toolbar). If you are jumping around the interweb researching something, adding pages to the Reading list is a great way of keeping track. Shift/Command/D puts the current page in the list.
Enjoy!
t.
Things I love about my new mac...
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 22, 2011
Can't see the Reading List. Is that in snow leopard?
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Oct 22, 2011
It's in Safari 5.1.1. If you right click in the Toolbar and select Customise (spelled with a z 
) you can add a reading list button. Here is a screen shot of mine - https://picasaweb.google.com/100111268881766100114/ReadingList#5666370820480388530
t.
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Oct 22, 2011
Can't make the link live but it works if you paste it in to the address bar.
t.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 22, 2011
I'm using an earlier version (and the toolbar options are really light compared to on my old mac 
). Just downloading 5.1.1 now 
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hellboundforjoy Posted Oct 26, 2011
What kind of Mac did you get? I have a late 2007 13inch MacBook. I just upgraded the hard drive and the RAM. It was kind of slow and beachballed a lot, but now it's much smoother. I wish I'd just gotten more RAM to start with.
Things I love about my new mac...
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 26, 2011
Macbookpro. My old g4 powerbook gets lots of beachballs too 
I think having the HDD nearly full all the time doesn't help.
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- 1: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 22, 2011)
- 2: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Oct 22, 2011)
- 3: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 22, 2011)
- 4: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Oct 22, 2011)
- 5: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Oct 22, 2011)
- 6: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 22, 2011)
- 7: hellboundforjoy (Oct 26, 2011)
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