“If you’ve just switched from a Windows PC to a new Apple Macintosh, you might be wondering if you’ll ever get back all those Windows touches you lost in the changeover. The short answer is that you haven’t lost anything. The long answer is right in front of you, in this week’s column,” Al Fasoldt writes for The Syracuse Post-Standard.
Fasoldt lists some things that former Windows users may think they’ve lost and explains why they haven’t and what they’ve gained.
Fasoldt covers:
• The right mouse button
• Ejecting CDs or DVDs
• Mac OS X Dock vs. Windows Taskbar
• Mac OS X Dock vs. Windows Start Menu
• Exposé
• Task Manager
• Icon previews
• Keychain
• Keyboard differences
Full article here.
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Hammer- thanks for answering something that has been a puzzle (and minor irritation/argument) between my boyfriend and I since he moved in and started using my Mac when you said:
“Also, I always find it funny when a Windows users sees a Mac that has a big screen, and the windows don’t take up the whole screen. They get all bent and say “why doesnt it take up the whole screen?”. So I make the webpage take up the whole screen, of course the content doesnt get any larger, just for some reason they can’t grasp it when ther are other items on the page they can see. But filling the screen makes them happy.”
His e-mail, web stuff, solitair EVERYTING has to be full screen. Drives me nuts. Who wants to read a 17″ line length of e-mail? Glad there are user sides, or there would be total war. If I had the money I’d buy a 30″ just to see how far this odd Windozzz habit goes. Thanks for clarifying the four year old puzzle for me. Wow.
I find I have the same problem with “hot corners”. I prefer to just assign them buttons on my Mighty Mouse.
Me, I LOVE my hotcorners. Accidental hits are no big deal compared to the convenience of dragging and dropping to other apps all using the mouse. Click on the file, stab the upper right corner to activate “all windows” and then drop baby. Now when I occasionally use my old Dell laptop, I find myself stabbing the corners of the screen, but of course nothing happens.
Coming from 10 years on Windows, I find OS X and most Mac apps in general to be far LESS customizable than Windows/Apps. For example, Outlook must have at least 85% more customize options than Entourage does (ex.: setting the time the new e-mail notification remains in the lower right corner, Entourage can’t).
Oh, and as a Windows user, I didnt always use full-size windows, but I was working on a UXGA screen.
P.S. Just had to have the logic board in my 15″ 1.67ghz Powerbook to fix the half memory missing problem.