Bought a macbook pro... suggestions?

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SO I bit the bullet, My Ibook g4 was good and for being over 2 years it worked awesome, but I’m on the road a lot and I enjoy playing strategy games (dork!) like sim city and the sims, and the Ibook wasn’t cutting it.
I dropped $2500 on a new 15.4" macbook pro with the 2.4ghz system. It runs my games awesome!

What upgrades should I do to it? As in free upgrades I can download from the web. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated!

I am not the smartest with computers so bear with me.

Basically, I am just asking for some tips and some good programs I can use!

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I would get the free application “insomnia” it allows you to control when the laptop goes to sleep.

I have mine set to stay active if I close the lid when it’s plugged into power but sleep when closed and not plugged in.

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caffeine is a nice app, it stops the backlight from shutting off…say when youre watching a movie or something like that.

MEMORY. 2gig at the very least.

ohh and istat menu is nice too, its a really nice customizable set of system monitors that sits in the menu bar.

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Coconut battery to keep an eye on your battery in the first year (1st year applecare is free = free battery replacement if your’s goes fubar)

Adium for AIM.
InsomniaX is a must.

NZBDrop if you do newsgroups.

Depending on if you torrent and what your sites allow:
Azureus 2.5
Transmission.

VLC for any videos

iStat (widget) for hardware stats

Kismac I heard is great to pick up hot spots, however, I haven’t used it effectively yet.

And the standard CS3/Lightroom for image editing.

Of course coming from a Mac I am sure you use most of them anyways.

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VMware? :lol:

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damnit lol beat me to it, bastard

but no real clue personally, I just use what comes with OS… good replies though :tup:

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You should have waited for the new Mac Book pro to come out in around 4 weeks. It is going to have the new multi touch touchpad and upgraded processors.

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MenuMeters is a nice little app the displays your CPU, memory, network, and disk usage up in the menu bar.

Little Snitch is a handy firewall but isn’t free.

PithHelmet is good ad blocking software for Safari unless you use Firefox.

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I disliked Little Snitch, but have yet to find a diff program to keep pirated software from phoning home.

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I agree but it beats writing your own firewall scripts.

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Meh, I didn’t hear about any new macbook pro and I’m sure the new ones will be over 3 grand.

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Rumors…But a good bet as well. They usually upgrade things in batches.

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Strip OSX off it and put on vista. Its clearly the superior operating system

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you’re already in the midst of this fight…Why are you trying to start another one?

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Vista is better that it all

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more-on

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its not my fault OSX sucks

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lol :drama2:

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lol srsly way too easy to get the mac dick suckers spooled up

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I can easily say, that I am not the smartest computer person out there…but as for having a mac and a pc…the mac after 2 years runs like it’s brand new…my pc on the other hand, I had to take it to a computer repair shop twice to keep it working