New Macbook 2024

I had to get a new macbook even though I was not at the end of my office computer cycle because the new networking upgrade was not working well with older mac systems.  

So, now I have a new 14 inch macbook pro.  

Checking apps to see what I need to install before I lose admin privledges.  

• Dropbox
• Eclipse  I don't really use this anymore either?
• Gnuplot?  Not sure if I want this anymore - I use JupyterLab instead these days.
• Imagemagick?
• Anaconda for sure and get JupyterLab Set up
• Texshop - I dont think i need anymore?  But maybe
• Turning point and active presenter i think i no longer need
• Mathematica they installed
• Latexit for sure
• Firefox and chrome already installed
• Zotero?
• Pasco Capstone

Set up tasks:

• Set up right click and trackpad preferences
• Set up mission control
• Finder - view - show path bar
• Installed Latexit, but it needs pdflatex
• Installed Anaconda
• Updated Anaconda
• Downloading homebrew so that I can install pdflatex - brew is installed
• basictex is successfully installed
• I added /Library/TeX/texbin to my path because https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/642248/i-have-installed-mactex-because-i-need-pdflatex-but-it-looks-like-not-open told me to. (I followed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYq1PvDTUIA)
• but latexit still does not work - i still need ghostscript
• Installing ghostscript using brew: 
• brew update
• brew upgrade
• brew install ghostscript
• brew cleanup
• Trying to find where brew installed gs.  Seems to be in /opt/homebrew/bin
• But I cannot seem to tell latexit where that is.  It gives a gui directory finder and it cannot find opt
• went ahead and installed mactex.  Show be in /usr/local/texlive
• Quit and restarted and latexit found it no problem.  seems to work now.  Enough for tonight.

• Installing Eclipse 
• downloading the AArch64 option, because it is the ARM architecture and I opened terminal and typed uname -m and it gave a result of arm64.
• Looks OK!  Not sure if I'll ever use it.
• Texshop seems to be already downloaded with mactex.
• Capstone is installed
• installed imagemagick - not sure if I will ever use it.
• Rspec is installed (for spectrometer)
• Installed a bunch of programs on brew that MAY be useful later.