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Just bought a Macbook Pro K+

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HoneyBadger
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What are some "must haves"

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SHANKS :D
Sep 16 2012 6:56PM
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lee_aviator
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touchgrind
Sep 16 2012 6:57PM
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Forcillo
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Photoshop CS6
Adobe Illustrator
FCPX or Adobe Premier
Sep 16 2012 6:57PM
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HoneyBadger
Posts: 998 - Karma: 234
ive heard bad things about final cut pro x.. thats actually what im trying to decide now.. which verison to get
Sep 16 2012 6:58PM
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OssargYormada
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transmission
vlc
silverlight

Sep 16 2012 6:58PM
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corona
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should have bought a Mac
Sep 16 2012 6:59PM
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bo0b
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Premiere Pro CS6> FCP in my humble opinion
Sep 16 2012 6:59PM
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BChaps1209
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this
Sep 16 2012 7:00PM
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Aaaron.
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drop a 750g@7200rpm drive in that sucker.
Sep 16 2012 7:05PM
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E__
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This. I have FCPX right now and from what I've tried with Premiere Pro it is much smoother. I highly recommend either one, there's no major problems with FCPX.
Sep 16 2012 7:05PM
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Laurent.
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—Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection.
—Pages
—Numbers
—Keynote
—Spotify
—Appcleaner (to remove apps fast and well.)
—Dropbox
—Growl (Notification service)
—Caffeine (sits in the menubar, click it and everything stays well awake.)
—GFXcardstatus (Overrides graphic card selection to save battery (Only if you have a dedicated graphics card.)
—Coconutbattery
—Linein (Enables audio passthrough.)
—VLC
—The unarchiver & (or) RarX
—Cheatsheet
—XLD (Best flac to apple lossless converter.)


Sep 16 2012 7:07PM
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Ski_Alot
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so fun, split my free time between it and shredsauce
Sep 16 2012 7:07PM
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lgski
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I like Adblock. That's pretty common
Sep 16 2012 7:53PM
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Uah
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I'm so sorry, you will get through this. Major vibes!
Sep 16 2012 8:00PM
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TijmenDal
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- Caffeine
Sep 16 2012 8:00PM
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bermbuster49
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get angry birds bro its all the rage
Sep 16 2012 8:07PM
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penguin_steeze
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partition your hard drive and get both via torrent
Sep 16 2012 8:18PM
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Vitiligo
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Adobe 6
Sep 16 2012 8:19PM
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Spiri7o
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Final Cut Pro
Sep 16 2012 8:22PM
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NickSki.
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mac gaming at its finest
Sep 16 2012 8:25PM
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SteveStepp
Posts: 9529 - Karma: 20,646
Keys
BetterTouchTool
Onyx
Dropbox
Transmission
VLC to watch awesome Liam Neeson movies
Sep 16 2012 8:25PM
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GuacamoleMane
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fcp7 isnt available anymore so fcp10 cs an sv r ur only choices, i have experience with fc7 and just got fc10 but its much more like an advanced iMovie.
Sep 16 2012 8:46PM
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sammiedee
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cinch is probably the most convenient/useful thing I've installed on my mac so far
Sep 16 2012 9:01PM
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Lansfield
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HAH! k+
Sep 16 2012 9:09PM
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HoneyBadger
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i can get any form of final cut using torrents ;)
Sep 16 2012 9:24PM
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GuacamoleMane
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ya everyone says that but in the end theyre glitchy and unusable
Sep 16 2012 10:53PM
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Jeebus.
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uTorrent for mac
Sep 16 2012 11:13PM
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fupaface
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Tab view (if you play guitar)
Pac man
Sixtyforce
Sep 16 2012 11:41PM
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