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<blockquote data-quote="DarkestRitual" data-source="post: 910016" data-attributes="member: 96273"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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... <a href="http://macthemes2.net/forum/" target="_blank">MacThemes</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>PS - please stop disgracing your new MBP by putting that pile of **** Windows on it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkestRitual, post: 910016, member: 96273"] 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... [url=http://macthemes2.net/forum/]MacThemes[/url]. 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. :-P [/QUOTE]
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