I may have the answer to this question. According to the AppleInsider website, OS X 10.5 will be released on October 26, so I’ll wait until then to buy the system.
For anyone interested:
tell Application "QuickTime Player"
activate
present document 1 scale screen
end tell
will start fullscreen playback on any version of QuickTime Player.
I switched from PC desktop to MacBook last March.
I’d advise: Keep your monitor and buy a stand for the laptop for your desk at home, your MacBook will drive both screens and that’s just very fun and cool.
I got 2 Gig of RAM (from Apple so I didn’t have to bother with switching myself, but it was costly).
I know someone with the black one and it always looks kind of greasy, my white one doesn’t show dirt.
AppleCare is well worth the cost, and as was said, you don’t have to buy it with the machine.
I’d recommend trying to just go with the OSX before you go installing windows at all. I bought mine with the intention of installing Windows, but after a couple weeks I decided not to. OSX is pretty slick, and Leopard should be awesome.
Try Open Office. It’s free and acts much like Microsoft Office. You can save stuff as .doc and .xls and everything.
MacDrive is an absolute essential piece of software. I absolutely love being able to open my files from the Mac partition when I’m in Windows…
The one huge flaw in MacDrive is that if you make any changes to Windows, you need to get it “reauthorized”…
I decided to install Vista, so had to email to get MacDrive reauthorized… Decided that Vista wasn’t ready for primetime, and put XP back… and had to email to get MacDrive reauthorized… Had a problem with the XP installation… and needed to reinstall XP again… and had to email the MacDrive people and ask for reauthorization to get it to work again…
Then, I sold my MacBook and bought a Macbook Pro, so had to go through it all again! :mad:
I understand the need to stop piracy, but MacDrive needs to come up with a more user-friendly way to do it.
I’m reviving my own thread because I received my new Macbook this week. (I waited until Leopard was released, and then until after the Macbook was upgraded, before ordering the system.) I wanted to set up Bootcamp so I could dual-boot from the Mac and Windows operating systems. I couldn’t find Bootcamp in Utilities, but eventually found a thread from the Apple discussion forums that said that this was a known problem with Leopard and that it’s necessary to reinstall it from the OS disc. One poster said that the way to correct the problem was to do as follows:
Insert Install Disc 1
In Finder, go to Go -> Go To Folder… and put
/Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1/System/Installation/Packages
in the dialogue box. There you should see BootCamp.pkg. Running that with all the defaults puts the Boot Camp Assistant in /Applications/Utilities/
But I wasn’t able to follow those instructions. Where is “Go” in Finder? I tried to simply browse through the disc in it but can’t find an Applications folder (the only ones I see are Instructions and Optional Installs).
Note that it’s actually a moot issue, as another posting in that thread included a link to a package that automatically extracted the Bootcamp Assistant, and installed it in the OS. Using that, I was able to run Bootcamp and install Windows XP. But I’m still wondering why I can’t see a System folder in Install Disc 1.
“Go” in Finder :
Click on the desktop to make sure you are not in an application
“Go” is the 5th item from the left in the menu bar at the top of the screen
“Go to Folder” is the second last item in this menu
alternatively, the keyboard shortcut is: <shift><apple>G
I have three shiny new MacBooks sitting in my office, just waiting to be configured and messed with on Monday.
It’s going to be such a blast!
Apple wants me. Oh yeah, they want me bad. I can tell- those Macs were on a truck the day I placed the order, and I had them in hand within 36 hours of placing the order. You know I can’t wait. You know I need to start spending time and money on you. Just can’t wait to get your hooks into me, can you? 
We have come full circle with Apple- hubby had an Apple IIe in college, then a Macintosh, but then we drifted away, going with IBMs because of peer pressure.
But baby, we are back! MacBooks in hand, little kids have iPod shuffles that their godfather just bought them (8 & 5.5 yrs old, gee thanks Uncle Henry… ;)), and iPhones will be in the Xmas stockings!
I installed OS X 10.5 as an upgrade on my existing 10.4.10 MacBook Pro, and Boot Camp Assistant was placed in the Applications/Utilities directory. Is this different on non-Pro MacBooks or on systems that start out with 10.5??
From what I found on some of the Apple discussion forums, it’s a known issue for Boot Camp Assistant to be missing from the computer. The fix is to reinstall it from the disc. But apparently it’s in a hidden folder, which is why I couldn’t find it. (I was ultimately able to view the hidden folders by using a Terminal command “defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.” But is there an easier way to do this? In Windows, I can select View Hidden Files and Folders from the menus.)
So now I’ve got the Macbook configured with two equal partitions; one with OS X 10.5 and the other with Windows XP SP2. It’s been interesting, because I’ve had problems with both. I’ve got the computer hooked up to my KVM switch but I haven’t been able to get the external monitor to work in Windows, although it does in the Mac. And I can get Windows to connect wirelessly to my Netgear router, but couldn’t get the Mac OS to do so.
Spotlight is actually a decent way to look for files if you know part of their name. It’s also improved in Leopard over Tiger.
But then it doesn’t find hidden files either (I don’t know if there’s a way to force just Spotlight to do this).