So yesterday, my dad and I picked up my PB 15" (combo drive) from the apple store and I have been working with it pretty much since them (besides going to work and sleeping and stuff). MAN, this is one slick machine, it's amazing!!!
I transferred most of my files from my ipod (where I had all of the files from my windows machine backed up), imported my gigantic e-mail inbox into Mail (which was a major pain but it's workking a little better now), and have started to play with Spotlight which is pretty cool stuff and get myself organized to actually start getting work done again.
However a couple of questions. Should Mail.app use like 50% of the processor? For some reason it seems like every once in a while it just doesn't display any messages in the listing or what. Maybe it's because i'm re-organizing my messages because it was really messed up on my old computer, or does mail.app have problems with large inboxes?
Also my mac froze last night when I was transferring files off of my ipod, and I had to reboot the pb which was pretty scary because I wasn't sure exactly what to expect. After the reboot, the mac wouldn't mount the ipod, though my windows machine could. So I transferred my files over the network by mapping the ipod as a network drive. However I'm trying to transfer my music now, and the ipod is saying things like that it can't read the files (even though when I listen to the ipod normally it still works like it should).
The one other thing I'm having trouble with is that I want to take my contacts out of Thunderbird and put them into the os's Address Book so that I can get to them via the address book widget and so on. I found a perl script to export the contacts as a vCard and hacked it accordingly so that it would work with the files where I had them, but the address book wouldn't bite and import them. Anyone have any experience with doing this?
Otherwise everything is fantastic! I love this machine and it definitely will serve me well. :-D
Thanks to everyone who answered my questions (whether you knew it or not) while I was doing the research to buy this fantastic comp.
Jason
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