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January 17th, 2007

My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 7

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 11:20 am

Categories: Apple, Mac, My MacBook Pro Experience

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In this installment of my MacBook Pro Experience I'm going to be covering some of the basic skills and knowledge I’ve discovered that someone making the switch from Windows to Mac really needs to carry out basic functions within the Mac OS X environment.

If you are already a Mac user, this post might come across as pretty basic, but the idea here is to get across the main differences between the two platforms to readers not familiar with the Mac.  If you know what you are doing when it comes to all things Mac, you can help others by posting your tips and tricks here. 

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Sorry to deflate your world.....but Apple is more of a Software company just like MS...

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Keyboard Shortcuts  FallGuy7254 | 01/17/07
Cheers!  Adrian Kingsley-HughesZDNet Moderator | 01/17/07
The option key  frgough | 01/17/07
Intellect vs Muscle Memory  Harry Bardal | 01/17/07
Distortion indeed  TonyMcS | 01/17/07
Distorted Opinion...  IAHawkeye | 01/17/07
Your obvious predisposition aside...  morchant | 01/18/07
One mouse button???  ladyirol | 01/18/07
press my button- gawd the stupidity! And these  hirez | 01/18/07
Intuitive?  jshaw4343 | 01/17/07
What's Missing...  Harry Bardal | 01/17/07
No compelling reason  jshaw4343 | 01/17/07
Exactly right though the Mac zealots won't like it  NonZealot | 01/17/07
Wow...  ju1ce | 01/18/07
whinge whinge whinge- you wanna cheap  hirez | 01/18/07
yep- old people are like that- they stick with  hirez | 01/18/07
Well...  cashaww | 01/19/07
Intuitiveness (is that a word?)  FallGuy7254 | 01/17/07
I think it is relative......  LazLong | 01/17/07
Consistency  tic swayback | 01/17/07
About that mouse...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
Intuitive is just a way of saying...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
Yes, Intuitive  solomonrex | 01/18/07
Try this..  cashaww | 01/19/07
Summarize your experience so far  NonZealot | 01/17/07
Wrong  Stuka | 01/17/07
Stuka...  Linux User 147560 | 01/17/07
Yeah, I know...  Stuka | 01/17/07
nah...  lostarchitect | 01/17/07
mental issues  JohnM865 | 01/18/07
Wouldn't surprise me at all  999ad@... | 01/18/07
I'm with you lostarchitect...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
This Zealot idot  msolgeek | 01/18/07
How intuitive is it?  wcb42ad | 01/18/07
Intuitive is referring to...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
A new user  wcb42ad | 01/18/07
yep with you buddy- took me a whole minute  hirez | 01/18/07
You forgot the card reader- and boy, non  hirez | 01/18/07
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I have a card reader on my powerbook  CMKRNL | 01/24/07
Dock  tic swayback | 01/17/07
MAC's?  92mr2 | 01/17/07
Learning is hardest for  j.m.galvin | 01/17/07
Mac to PC terminology  Mr_Dave | 01/18/07
Maybe I can help...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
Correction...lol!  ladyirol | 01/18/07
LOL with good humour!  hirez | 01/18/07
Some minor corrections  j.m.galvin | 01/17/07
You make it sound so complicated  georgep_z | 01/17/07
Give him a break- as an M$ user, he simply has  hirez | 01/18/07
Key modifier  creep144 | 01/17/07
Customize your keyboard shortcuts  tic swayback | 01/18/07
Keyboard commands returning home  Hellking | 01/18/07
Who's griping?  Adrian Kingsley-HughesZDNet Moderator | 01/18/07
Yeah, exactly.  999ad@... | 01/18/07
Im with Sprocket999, hope more of you guys  hirez | 01/18/07
BIG BUSINESS BIG MISTAKES- and all that  hirez | 01/18/07
These morons  Howard Pierson | 01/18/07
Blame Apple for this one  NonZealot | 01/18/07
Hey man...  ju1ce | 01/18/07
Not entirely true  don3605 | 01/18/07
Many keyboard commands  MacCanuck | 01/18/07
Thanks  don3605 | 01/18/07
Fix  Rising Star | 01/18/07
Double-Click After Selection  Grammyputer | 01/18/07
Where?  Adrian Kingsley-HughesZDNet Moderator | 01/18/07
Different Interpretation  pj_mouse | 01/20/07
Tell them the Mac U.I. preceded Windows  Robert Kohlenberger | 01/18/07
You are right, but....  Hameiri | 01/20/07
Thanks and...  ladyirol | 01/18/07
Navigation Help for Functionality Confusion  MacCanuck | 01/18/07
which should I buy  pilottype | 01/18/07
Palm Desktop on Mac  noozoo | 01/18/07
IS THIS A MILITARY OPERATING SYSTEM?  BALTHOR | 01/18/07
make a choice - mac or win!  danlangford@... | 01/18/07
No! U can't CLOSE Apps; U can only Quit them. (Only an App's WINDOWs close)  BurmaYank | 01/18/07
Preferences???!?!?!?!!!!!!  Hameiri | 01/20/07
No! U can't CLOSE Apps; U can only Quit them. (Only an App's WINDOWs close)  BurmaYank | 01/18/07
Semantics  Mr_Wizard | 01/20/07
Semantics? No, & you obviously don't know the 1st. thing about using a Mac  BurmaYank | 01/20/07
Empty trash  jfmiii | 01/18/07
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MAC & Linux?  LLLActive | 01/19/07
Huh??  999ad@... | 01/19/07
Cmd-X in Mac became Ctrl-X in Windows, not the other way around!  dabruro | 01/19/07
You are my brother!  vous | 01/19/07
Application Installation  jimward | 01/19/07
Baloney  bbuc@... | 01/20/07
Expose' switching apps  jejenkins | 01/22/07
(Non?)Zealotry is blind  JoeBob_z | 01/30/07
And it's Nintendo's fault...  JoeBob_z | 01/30/07
A System....  LStewart | 02/07/07

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