Thx alot for the reply. you have mentioned the app installs is just drag and drop, its weird haha firefox was the first app i installed and i did not know what to do.....i was totally like what the ****.....i know sorta my way around the Os x a little bit now. But still finding new stuff on it. There are few visual questions i have. Can you have like 2-4 desktops like on a linux? i saw a guy swamping beetwin something like that and it looked really good. Also i saw that he had his dock on the left side, I know how to change that but he has something on the bottom like a long button to something and they wore like lines or something like that....Hard to describe. Also what replaces the quick alt+ctrl+delete from windows to go to the task menager? What about themes? I more of a visual person....
Spaces... enable spaces in the system preferences under "exposé and spaces." You can have up to 8 I think, and lock certain apps to certain spaces. To switch between them, the default set up is control + arrow keys, or control + 1, 2, 3, 4, etc depending on which space you want to switch to.
There is no task manager in OS X. You don't need one. If an app is locking up, you have several options. You can right click on the icon in the dock and tell it to force quite, or you can hit option command escape which will bring up the force quit menu, in which you would select the misbehaving app and tell it to force quit.
Now, to right click you can do a couple of things... you can click and hold control, you can set up a special place on your track pad to push down and click, ooooor (this is what I do because I find with the giant multi-touch track pad, why would anybody want to actually push the thing down to click?) turn on tap to click... to do that, you go to system preferences> track pad> and select "Tap to click." and then you can turn on (under 2 fingers) secondary tap. then you just tap with 2 fingers to right click. Soooo convenient. Plus that way you're not making tons of noise, you can just lightly touch your trackpad to click and right click.
As for GUI changes, you... CAN... change some things, via a program called Magnifique (or if you're really brave, you can do it by messing with system files and .rsrc packages), but I would recommend against both of those things. Especially for the first few months of snow leopard being out. Let other people work out the bugs. If you're really interested and can't keep yourself away though, check out this board...
MacThemes.
Oh btw is there way to get RAM or a better CPU for a 15in 2009 MBP? I wanted 8gb baddly but when i saw the price with is like what? 1.3k for 4gb of ram....THATS freaking ridiculous....I brought ram for my other PC, and i paid only 100 for 8gb....What about the GPU, can i change it too? I know i know im thinking all PC, i love customizing PC's.....i got 3 custom built desktops at my house with all are almost maxed out...I would love to max my MBP if thats possible....
You can buy more RAM later from a 3rd party. You'll never get 2x4GB dimms for 100 bucks. First, it's really fast RAM (1066MHz DDR3), and second it has to be in 4GB sticks, which are EXPENSIVE at the moment. In the future you can upgrade it at a cheaper cost. The GPU you're stuck with, same with the processor. Until maybe years from now when you have another machine and want to experiment with this one.
PS - please stop disgracing your new MBP by putting that pile of **** Windows on it.