Nothing stopping you buying Office365 for a Mac

Is it any good? Ill have to have a play with the Mac one and see what i think maybe.

Be a start when the mac actually turns up haha.

Well, it's a matter of taste! It's quite popular.

Have been using a Macbook Air for a few months and absolutey love it,spent 2 hours this morning downloading the new El Capitan OSX,can't see much difference to be honest.

Can you dual boot Yosemite and El Capitan OK? I'll need to upgrade our work MBP at some point, our old Mac Mini is toast and used to have 3 OSes on it, but I don't know whether that's an option in the installer or whether someone had to bodge that manually, cos I didn't upgrade it last time...

Can you dual boot Yosemite and El Capitan OK? I'll need to upgrade our work MBP at some point, our old Mac Mini is toast and used to have 3 OSes on it, but I don't know whether that's an option in the installer or whether someone had to bodge that manually, cos I didn't upgrade it last time...

 

Yes, you'll need to either install onto another disk or repartition the existing one so you have a new empty volume. Install El Capitan on that empty volume and then use system preferences to say which you want to boot by default.

 

I just upgraded the live partition, so no dual boot an have no issues so far.

Cool. There's loads of space free (256 SSD with very little installed since it's only for testing), just wasn't sure whether dual booting was something Apple supported from within their installer or whether there was a lot of messing around.

Still waiting...

5 months since i started this haha.

Mine arrived the other day - ended up going direct to Apple, just because I was concerned about not getting refunded by my employers, which would have made the £100-200 cheaper one from another seller work out more expensive. If it was a fully personal purchase then I'd have just gone to the cheapest vendor, but I didn't want to end up potentially being out of pocket.

 

As a person who has never owned anything from Apple (whether that be laptop, desktop, phone, WiFi kit, storage, etc) I'm actually really impressed. Still working out all the OSX shortcuts and the quick way to do things, but it's sat on my desk right now running OSX with all my tools, email, etc, a decently specced virtual machine running Windows 7 in it, a CentOS VM running a test instance of Jenkins so that I can play around with trying to get something to work sensibly with CI for some future work, I had CoreOS and Docker running in another VM so that I can test out some containerisation and see if it's something we'd find useful on a bare-metal box at work, etc. I have homebrew installed so (so far) I've been able to get all the nice *nix tools that I used to use on Linux (Wireshark, mitmproxy, etc) running with basically no hassle; it's very similar to using apt-get on any Debian-based Linux distro. The battery life seems good even when it was sat unplugged on the settee last night compiling software over and over again, I haven't heard the fan come on (my old laptop was a constant drone even when idle) and the fact it's made from metal means even without the fan going it stays much cooler than my old laptop, with no hot spots. I'm sure OSX will find some way to wind me up just like Windows and Linux do, but that's just a case of same ****, different day, nothing's perfect.

 

So in summary, it cost "a fortune" (in relative terms, this is the first laptop I've ever bought as my old employer used to provide them) but I reckon this will easily be good for at least the three years I've had my old HP that left the old job with me, and likely a couple more on top as well...

Mine arrived the other day - ended up going direct to Apple, just because I was concerned about not getting refunded by my employers, which would have made the £100-200 cheaper one from another seller work out more expensive. If it was a fully personal purchase then I'd have just gone to the cheapest vendor, but I didn't want to end up potentially being out of pocket.

As a person who has never owned anything from Apple (whether that be laptop, desktop, phone, WiFi kit, storage, etc) I'm actually really impressed. Still working out all the OSX shortcuts and the quick way to do things, but it's sat on my desk right now running OSX with all my tools, email, etc, a decently specced virtual machine running Windows 7 in it, a CentOS VM running a test instance of Jenkins so that I can play around with trying to get something to work sensibly with CI for some future work, I had CoreOS and Docker running in another VM so that I can test out some containerisation and see if it's something we'd find useful on a bare-metal box at work, etc. I have homebrew installed so (so far) I've been able to get all the nice *nix tools that I used to use on Linux (Wireshark, mitmproxy, etc) running with basically no hassle; it's very similar to using apt-get on any Debian-based Linux distro. The battery life seems good even when it was sat unplugged on the settee last night compiling software over and over again, I haven't heard the fan come on (my old laptop was a constant drone even when idle) and the fact it's made from metal means even without the fan going it stays much cooler than my old laptop, with no hot spots. I'm sure OSX will find some way to wind me up just like Windows and Linux do, but that's just a case of same ****, different day, nothing's perfect.

So in summary, it cost "a fortune" (in relative terms, this is the first laptop I've ever bought as my old employer used to provide them) but I reckon this will easily be good for at least the three years I've had my old HP that left the old job with me, and likely a couple more on top as well...

Good stuff.

Im hoping to get 10 years from mine.

But at this rate itll be 10 years before i take delivery

But at this rate itll be 10 years before i take delivery

 

My I ask where the said Mac Book is coming from please ?

My I ask where the said Mac Book is coming from please ?

Pm'd

Pm'd

 

nothings arrived yet   :no:

nothings arrived yet :no:

Give it a second to travel througg the magical internet space.

Should be there now