Hi Malcolm, Text EditorŠ still unsure.. Hopefully someone else will recommend a good one!
External monitors: I have a mac mini and quite happily drive two 27² screens in 1080p one through the hdmi and one through thunderbolt. `yes the apple one is beautifulŠbut the price rules it out.. I have two philips monitors on my desk in the office and two Hanns-G ones at home.. Both work fine and were only about £150 each Software to recommendŠ. Parallels to get your old windows programs working such as fox pro. Š VLC for watching videos etc chromeŠ HardwareŠ Apple Magic Mouse, Western Digital 2TB My Passport USB 3 drive, Synology DS411slim for a NAS box. Adam. On 08/01/2014 13:37, "Malcolm Greene" <pro...@bdurham.com> wrote: Thanks to discussions on this list, I've made the plunge and purchased a MacBook Pro 15" with 16 Gb RAM/512 Gb SSD. I'm as much of a Mac neophyte as you can get and am looking for advice on what apps/accessories to consider. In particular: 1. Text editor: Textmate, BBEdit, or Emacs/VI? 2. Multiple external monitors: I think I can drive 2 or 3 off this machine using the Thunderbolt-2 interfaces and/or the HDMI port. Any recommendations on monitor specs (brand/size/model) to consider or avoid? Apple has some gorgeous monitors starting at $1000 - that's a little too pricey for me. Any other "gotta have" apps, utilities, or hardware accessories you would recommend? Thank you! Mal --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cef30a11.37e97%adam.buckl...@eurohill.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
