Cameron Banga, a longtime Windows user, documents his switch to a Mac with an interesting article, “Ten things I wish I had known before I switched to OS X.”
Banga explains, “As I entered the wonderful world of Mac, I was alone and afraid. I basically jumped head into the computer with no knowledge of OS X. Fast forward six months and I am in love with my machine. It has been a great experience up to this point.”
Banga’s Top Ten:
1. When you install an application, you might not have actually installed an application
2. When on a MacBook Pro, two fingers on the trackpad plus a click can equal a right click
3. Embrace iLife
4. Use the built in search
5. You will no longer dread turning off your computer
6. With BootCamp or Parallels, you can boot into Windows – except, you really won’t need to
7. Don’t bother with games, even 2 year old games
8. iTunes automatically makes copies of songs when you add them to your song library
9. Exposé is your friend – you will become ten times more productive after you start using this feature
10. Don’t second guess your decision – after a month on the system, you will have no regrets (and might even start converting your friends
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As Mac users from day one, these articles are always very interesting to us. We’ve only used Windows after first using the Mac:
• initially at various jobs where clueless employers saddled us with unreliable Windows time-wasters (usually, we got Macs eventually, as you might imagine)
• now just to keep up with what Microsoft is doing currently (applying lipstick to Windows XP).
It’s no surprise that Mac users generally dislike having to use Windows, but Windows users are amazed when they try Mac OS X for the first time.
So, anyway, these new-to-Mac articles from people who’ve been stuck with Windows for years and years are always eye-opening. Apple should be reading these articles and applying their lessons where possible.
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