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Alright you Mac dorks.....
- Thread starter MJ5150
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Totally has. I think my wife knows more about it right now than I do. I'll dig into it when I get back from Denver when I load Fusion then build an XP Pro machine to run with it.
I won't ditch Windows for Mac, but I will say I am impressed how you plug everything in and it "just works". To be fair, I found Windows 7 to be very much like this. It found my printer, wireless keyboard and mouse, monitor, external drive, router, and USB hubs with no problem also.
-Mike
yeah i'm not about ditching any OS, you gotta learn them all. i'm messing with CentOS right now.. it's my next toy - it VM's really smoothly in my MBP. it's super stable - almost too stable. LOL
That's the first thing I noticed. I'm not an accountant or banker, but I would sure miss it when it cam time to balance my checkbook.
+1 I have windows installed in bootcamp, but I have parallels installed so I can access the bootcamp partition with out rebooting.
I switched to mac last year and I love it! I was very frustrated with Vista. I had a laptop that I was having to restart up to 7 times a day because something in there didn't agree with something else and I couldn't figure out what it was. I took it in and the tech couldn't find it either. That laptop got destroyed and now I'm a mac proponent. More power to the Windows crowd but it's just not for me anymore. I hope y'all really enjoy the mac!!
You presume what we have any clue what a "Dock" is, or that we have any idea what an "Applications folder" is or where / how to find it. You might as well be writing in Sanskrit. I have never figured out either of those things. And I've never had to open a book to use learn how to use a PC.
It's just that some systems and terminologies are more intuitive to some people, others are more intuitive to other people. Add a layer of experience and it means you have a lot to UN-learn before you learn another system. I wish Mike well, and I'm sure he'll enjoy the Mac once he puts in the time to unlearn PC and learn Mac.
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
Boot camp is free
I've been a windows developer for 5 years and just started some OS X coding and like it quite a bit. Windows will be my bread and butter for a while tho.
Cool free apps:
Gimp -> mspaint
Adium -> multiclient chat
+1 on the bootcamp suggestion. definitely a good setup, use it on my mac pro and it works great.
Maybe. All I know is I've used a Mac for years - since 86 - and I was forced to use a PC at work for 2 years. It was terrible. I couldn't get anything done. By the end of the 2nd year I could navigate but it still sucked. The best day at work was when they said we could choose our platform for the next year. No surprise what I chose. I had no problem "unlearning" the PC stuff. I have people in my department who stuck with PC's and they now regret it. While I'm working, they're calling in trouble tickets as their PC sits idle.
Wow. Seriously, if you haven't found the Applications folder, which is first thing you see when you double click the Drive icon in the upper right, and in every single window that opens, every single one, then I don't know.... how much easier would you want it.
APPLICATIONS...that's the name of the folder, guess what's in it?
Isn't the lower thing with all the icons and stuff in it on a PC called a Dock too?
What do you think all those things are at the bottom? Have you tried clicking on them? Have you tried clicking on things? Pulling down the menus at the top and reading what's there? Do you want the computer to physically connect to your hand and move it for you? This is a ridiculous discussion.
This is going nowhere fast. Never mind. I'm going to assume you are just in an argumentative mood.
Back to the original topic. The guy is happy, as is his wife with his Mac. That's the point. Not that ONE or two of you here can't figure it out. He doesn't care, I don't care.
Again to the OP, visit the Apple forums. There is a wealth of info for beginners and not-so-much-beginners.
i was feeling comfy with my first mac back in 2006.. it only took about one week..
it was really easy.
it was really easy.
I'm not in an argumentative mood, I was stating facts from my point of view - and you seem unwilling to acknowledge that point of view. So - thanks for all the insults. I'm a pretty advanced PC user, and I seldom run into any problem with one that I can't resolve pretty quickly. I had no intention of turning this into another Mac vs. PC thread - still don't.
Much of the terminology you find familiar is stuff I've never heard of...I don't have the vaguest idea what you're talking about. No, there is nothing in a PC called a dock - so I assume that you're not a PC-user or you wouldn't ask. I could return the favor and reel off PC jargon you don't understand, but there's no reason to do that. I understand that you don't understand PCs. That's fine.
I have nothing against Macs. I simply made a personal statement that I simply find them completely unintuitive, and the times I've tried to use one I've been unable to open anything or do anything. I also stated that when you've learned one system, you much to unlearn before you can use the other.
Macs are great systems. I think Mike made a nice move in becoming both PC and Mac proficient, and I'm confident it will be to his advantage. However, Macs are a very small part of the installed computer base in the US, and business and higher education operate on the PC platform. So if you have to learn one or the other (and both would be to your advantage) it generally should be the PC.
Knoppix STD
it's not much of a Gnome or KDE gui..been messing with Centos, and i'll probably stick with that since it's pretty much RH Enterprise..
i remember back in the late 90's (it think it was the late 90's) and i had RH 7 - man, i couldn't even get the OS to open that thing that holds my coffee cup.
Knoppix STD
been messing with Centos, and i'll probably stick with that since it's pretty much RH Enterprise..
i remember back in the late 90's (it think it was the late 90's) and i had RH 7 - man, i couldn't even get the OS to open that thing that holds my coffee cup.
Yeah I'm more of a GNU/Linux guy, but Linux is still a shure fire way to spike your blood pressure.
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that seems VERY simple
Thanks! That looks pretty helpful if I ever need to learn to operate a Mac.
Interesting how not only the terminology but also the key labeling differs between the machines. I think it would take me a few weeks to learn new reflexes for that system, as I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts which become more reflex than thought.
I hope the OP will post in this thread about his experiences in making the transition - he's a good guy and I'm curious how long it will take him to get comfortable on the Mac.
