[Danoldo]

Hey,

My Macbook-Pro (1st mac i've ever had, 1st apple product i've ever owned) just got shipped today. 4 days prior to estimated shipping date. Ordered February 9th. Estimated shipping was March 10th. It was picked up in Shanghai today, the 6th of March.

You guys will probably be seeing me post quite a bit with questions on standard usage of the mac. Why am I switching? Simple. I want to USE a computer. I want functionality. The functions I learned with windows/PC was primarily how to FIX it when it broke. I love the presentation of Mac and LOVE the way they are headed. So much so, when I put together enough money, I will invest in Apple.

My first question before I recieve my Mac is, how do I run photoshop. I have read a lot (I am a photographer) about this and basically its come down to the fact that I must use Rosetta. My understanding is that Rosetta is an emulator that lets me run the old photoshop...but still, what EXACTLY is Rosetta. Does anyone have a generic way to put it as if the problem were in, say, windows? Unfortunately Windows is all I know up until this point, so I will need to make some analogies before I can fully comprehend the different service I get witht he macbook.

Thank you,

Brad

[ChasingApple]

Just install and use Photoshop, rosetta just runs the app on its own and you have to no NOTHING about it to make it function. Dont fall into the Windows was of doing things on a Mac, just use it

[aristotles]

Rosetta is a Just in Time recompiler/translator running in the background whenever you launch a non-X86 (Intel) or non-universal application. You will not notice anything other than some additional memory usage and lower performance than you would expect from a native application.

There is nothing that you need to configure or do in order for it to work.

[Busemann]

I just got my MacBook Pro today actually, and I love it! Rosetta is basically an emulation layer that transparently translates PowerPC apps to run fairly smoothly on the Intel machines. Photoshop 7 seems to run okay here, though I *just* set it up. iPhoto really screams btw.

[skyman]

Originally Posted by Danoldo

Hey,

My Macbook-Pro (1st mac i've ever had, 1st apple product i've ever owned)

Welcome, we are all here to help.

[Star-Fire]

Ah yes, why I bought a Macbook, I use to work for apple so I've had plenty and use one all day at work but have gotten out of the Apple loop for a couple years and really missed my TiBook. It's so nice to have a computer that just works, I just got my Macbook and had to print some documents out, just pluged in my printer and it worked. No, find drive install driver or even nothing about having to install one even if it was on the computer, no having to set options or make it the default printer, nothing at all, plug and print, thats why I missed my Mac.

I still have a PC tower for gaming but dosen't get much use otherwise, PCs work but need user input for that, Macs just work.

Best thing was when I picked it up from Frys electronics the salesman there, of couse mainly selling PCs was reading the specs as he brought it out and said "Wow, that's really nice I didn't know macs were so powerful" Put a smile on my face, also about everyone that saw the box couldn't beleive it was a laptop in there one guy said "Is that a new screen "