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Feb. 10th, 2008 12:15 pm
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In and running, after sterling work from [livejournal.com profile] perlmonger. for which many many thanks :) And about four frustrating hours waiting for it to transfer many Gb of data ... My 250Gb internal drive has been transferred, and the 4Gb of RAM fitted.

It finally arrived at 2:35 yesterday afternoon, by which time I was sunk deep in gloom and sure that we wouldn't see it. Typically, it was the last item on the chap's delivery list ...

Some problems with data transfer - my (fairly old) Macromedia Studio got its knickers in a twist, and given I use Dreamweaver all day, that was a bit worrying, but I've beaten it into submission now. One or two other things are slightly skewed, but I am keeping the old external drive as is for a while, and moving to a 1Tb for Time Machine, etc.

It is *spectacularly* quick, and I'm about to install Fusion and Parallels on it to give it some real work to do. I hate the Mighty Mouse (which won't right click for me), and I'm trying the little tiny keyboard because the regained desk space is quite attractive, but I suspect I'll be back to the Matias soon ...

So this afternoon I shall wipe the old Weatherwax (who has served me very well for 2.5 years, and is now going to a new home with [livejournal.com profile] agc.

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Date: 2008-02-10 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robsoft.livejournal.com
Hi Mac, glad you got it in the end!

On the Mighty Mouse front - why won't it click? Out of the box, Leopard seems to be configured so that both left and right mouse clicks are 'primary' - a quick visit to the mouse control panel preference thingy will see that put right. (Sorry if granny/eggs).

If you have it configured like that already, then maybe it's your fingers. You need to keep your left finger off of the mouse if you want it to pick up a right click. It takes a little getting used to, and I know a lot of people who've tried it and given up in disgust. It's not one of Apple's finer moments, although I quite like it. I'm much more annoyed at how hard it is to clean the damn scroller ball.... :-(

The processors in your beast must be fantastic, so with all that ram I'd expect it to be a stunning PC under fusion/parallels. :-)


Incidentally, I found that Parallels is much more forgiving of moving between hardware than Fusion is. XP under Fusion invariably wants to reactivate itself when I switch a VM between machines, and I'm not finding this problem with Parallels at all. Might be something that gets me to swing back to Parallels in the short-medium term.

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Date: 2008-02-10 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ramtops.livejournal.com
I have Parallels and Fusion; I've never given either of them much of a workout, so I will now - I'm currently shunting 28Gb of VMs across the network to try them all.

Thanks for the tip re the mouse - I'm a Wacom Artpad user, so it's only a small inconvenience, especially as I'm used to using Control on the Macbook.

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Date: 2008-02-10 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
What he said; the mighty mouse takes a wee bit of getting used to because most of us lightly rest our fingers on the non-active button; which won't do. The scroller ball drives me demented; this one started to gum up when I'd owned the computer *three weeks*.

But when it's working I like it a lot. But clearly the mouse is due for an overhaul; it matches the iMac not at all.

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Date: 2008-02-10 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] budleysalterton.livejournal.com
IKWYM about the right-click. I tried for a while with the mighty but I could never master the right-click. Some days it happened every time I wanted it, and some days I could not get it to work for love or money. A trusty logitech has taken its place.

The same happened with the keyboard. I got the wired, but although the size is nothing more than absolutely neccessary the travel feels odd and the non-standard location for all the keys a programmer uses kept tripping me up. And back to a normal old logitech I went.

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Date: 2008-02-10 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ramtops.livejournal.com
Mooooooooooose

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Date: 2008-02-10 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spride.livejournal.com
FWIW I've never had a problem RC with the Mighty.

Gummy Mouse Balls can be cured by spraying isopropyl into the ball, rolling it round, then drying it off with a lint free. Blast it with canned air to dry it out and blow off any lint.

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