Made With Mac

Aug 15th, 2007 by Mark Bennett

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Austin criminal defense lawyer Jamie Spencer just bought himself a MacBook Pro. As it turns out (see the comments to Jamie’s post), Ft. Worth criminal defense lawyer Shawn Matlock is a Mac guy as well.

I’ve been using Macintosh computers since college; I haven’t had a PC since before Windows first came out. Criminal defense is a creative profession, and a Macs, which just work, are excellent tools for creative professionals. Now that most Windows software will run in Parallels on an Intel Mac (and Windows “boots” in the background in about 15 seconds), there’s little reason for most of us to buy a PC.

I just found a better solution to a Mac hardware puzzle that I’ve been trying to solve for years (since OS 9 stopped supporting my SCSI scanner with automatic document feeder): how to turn paper into PDFs. I had been using a Xerox Workcentre multifunction machine that scan-to-PDF and email the results to me, but that was cumbersome and slow. Last week I upgraded to a Fujitsu Scansnap S500M (made for Mac).

Load a document into the Scansnap, hit a button, and the document (up to 50 sheets, double-sided) is scanned to PDF in seconds and opened on your desktop in the application of your choice. I tried Adobe Acrobat Pro, then Preview, and I’ve settled in with Yep, which allows me to add tags to PDFs.

(South Carolina lawyer Ben Stevens uses a ScanSnap with his Mac too, as does Kansas lawyer Grant Griffiths.)

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One Response to “Made With Mac”

  1. on 15 Aug 2007 at 10:00 am1Scott Greenfield

    I finally ditched my daughter’s ibook and got her a Sony Vaio notebook running Windows XP, because whenever anything went wrong with it, I had no clue how to fix it. I’ve been a pc user for years, and macs just don’t make any sense to me.

    Maybe I’m just too creative for mac?

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