which mac did you get?

same as Nealist, the new black macbook. we'll be upgrading from 1 gb to 4 gb memory shortly, then it'll rage.
right now i'm still getting used to the whole thing. no forward delete, no page up/down, terrible word processing, etc.
have you looked into parallels and bootcamp? i want Office 2007 (Win)...i the new Word 2008 for mac sucks.

i know for windows you can also make your own custom keyboard maps. its pretty easy and windows has the program for d/l on their website.maybe apple has something like that. search for 'keyboard mapping'.. you can set up a 'dead key'. i use the tilda. two presses=tilda. one press, followed by whatever letter = special character i need.
[edit} here: http://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+mapper+mac&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
probably one of those links will do the trick.

ps- thats cool you got nice laptops finally.
pps- macs dont have a normal 'delete' key?! wow thats annoying.

cool thanks. i'm slowly getting used to the shortcuts they built in. apparently forward delete is Control-delete on a mac. it a bit slower, but i suppose i can get used to it. same for the page up/down, except it's 'function' up/down.
anyway, yeh, having a new cpu is fun.

trefoil - have you looked into parallels at all? nothing is gonna fix the shitty Office 2008...

I havent. let me know if you find one. I dont even have office 2008 yet. Know where I could get it?

I dont think 2004 is very hot either. although it saves my data before it crashes. It crashes quite a bit. and my format palate locks up every now and then....when will I have a decent word processor, and audio player? itunes time is OVER. ...I should go check song bird again maybe.

2004 blows. balls.
itunes is megabullocks too.
i can get you 2008 if you want. lemme know.

you could use LaTex. im betting theres a mac gui for it out. otherwise.. you know.. if you want the dopest software, its still a windoze world out there.

what for? i looked at the intro page, and it looked enormously complicated and not meant for day-to-day word processing...what do you use this for?

i dont use it.. never have. but theres some who swear by it. really good for formatting text. it is also the standard *required* format for the sciences. if you want to submit an article to any decent peer-reviewed journal they will demand you use latex. no latex header = immediate no-read.

yeah i saw the sciences reference. seems somewhat baroque for my needs.

i dont know what you mean by baroque.. but it is still really great open source software.

needlessly complicated.

but isnt it the opposite? barebones, streamlined. you see all the formatting right there on the screen.

who wants to look at all that crap? that's why i steal word processors, to process the words and make them pretty so's as i don't gotta look at dat or know nuttin bout it.

anyway, i'm gonna try parallels and bootcamp/Office 2007 soon. i'll tell you how it goes.