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Good for you, clover 2112!. Like the man said when asked how to get to Carnegie Hall....
All suggestions I read in this thread are good and the main point is, with everything you do and read, you suck up more knowledge and experience.
I found this to be true as well. As a Windows user of all versions since 3.1 (except server and ME) since 1981, I bought a Mac Pro immediately on finding they switched to Intel and were advertised to run Windows. That was in 2006 when my shiny new 1,1 arrived. I found two things: first, this was a beautifully crafted machine, more like a fine instrument rather than the tin and wires found in most PCs; second, I could not run Windows because bootcamp was really not ready for prime time. So my adventures into OS X began, starting with Snow Leopard.
Shortly after that Mary and I went to sea for six years to live on and use our 50-ft sailboat as a chartering business in the Caribbean. In the meantime while my "toy" stayed in the house in upstate New York. In the interim, however, we moved our domicile to central Texas and in 2011 sold our boat and business and went ashore again. I quickly upgraded the Pro to 20GB (yes, I know, Apple says it's limited and you can't do that but I simply bought enough beg ram blocks to fill the slots and it worked fine with no bad indications anywhere including "About this Mac" or operationally).
I upgraded to Lion then tried to go to Mountain Lion when it arrived. That's when I learned Apple doesn't like to be backwards compatible, I guess because it cuts into their revenue stream...not good for the bottom line, I guess. All the while I was getting more and more familiar with OS X and lovin' it. I did keep Windows around as a virtual machine using Parallels but only to use legacy software not available for the MP. This is also when I got involved with Mac Forums. Mountain Lion arrived, I could not load it with the stock machine, so I went to the forums to see if I could Kluge an install. It appeared possible but the thing that stopped me was someone telling me, perhaps pigoo3, that it may work or it may turn my machine into an expensive anchor. So...
I kept at it, all the while learning more and more about OS X and its foibles. In 2015, involved in a new business venture, we got two new MacBook Pros and carried these on the road in our pursuits of greatness and glory. By 2014 I still was using Lion and, wanting to go further, bought a used 2009, 4,1 MP, twin Xeon 4-processor machine, upgraded it to 32GB RAM and 6TB of internal HDDs and switched to Yosemite, thus bypassing Mountain Lion and Mavericks. And then, when ElCap came out I went to that where I am now with 10.11.4, with all three machines. I have since switched from Android cells to iPhone 6S plus and iOS 9.1 and find it much easier to communicate with our Macs.
Thus, for the past ten years, I have been learning and building on my capabilities with the Mac. I would never go back to Windows although I do have Win 10 virtual through Parallels running in OS X, but now only for my one legacy device that has no Mac software, my Fujitsu fi-6130 scanner, a beautiful little machine that we used on the boat as well. I do, in fact, enjoy using Win 10 once in a while, just to remind me what I am missing.
So, Clover, keep at it. Despite any initial anguish, you will grow to really love your iMac (I even bought one for my daughter and she really loves it, too), if not just for its ease of use and reliability, but for its longevity. You will see people around with then-year-old Macs (I still have my 1,1 model) and they work. They don't just die like PCs.
Cheers and good luck...OJ
Good for you, clover 2112!. Like the man said when asked how to get to Carnegie Hall....
All suggestions I read in this thread are good and the main point is, with everything you do and read, you suck up more knowledge and experience.
I found this to be true as well. As a Windows user of all versions since 3.1 (except server and ME) since 1981, I bought a Mac Pro immediately on finding they switched to Intel and were advertised to run Windows. That was in 2006 when my shiny new 1,1 arrived. I found two things: first, this was a beautifully crafted machine, more like a fine instrument rather than the tin and wires found in most PCs; second, I could not run Windows because bootcamp was really not ready for prime time. So my adventures into OS X began, starting with Snow Leopard.
Shortly after that Mary and I went to sea for six years to live on and use our 50-ft sailboat as a chartering business in the Caribbean. In the meantime while my "toy" stayed in the house in upstate New York. In the interim, however, we moved our domicile to central Texas and in 2011 sold our boat and business and went ashore again. I quickly upgraded the Pro to 20GB (yes, I know, Apple says it's limited and you can't do that but I simply bought enough beg ram blocks to fill the slots and it worked fine with no bad indications anywhere including "About this Mac" or operationally).
I upgraded to Lion then tried to go to Mountain Lion when it arrived. That's when I learned Apple doesn't like to be backwards compatible, I guess because it cuts into their revenue stream...not good for the bottom line, I guess. All the while I was getting more and more familiar with OS X and lovin' it. I did keep Windows around as a virtual machine using Parallels but only to use legacy software not available for the MP. This is also when I got involved with Mac Forums. Mountain Lion arrived, I could not load it with the stock machine, so I went to the forums to see if I could Kluge an install. It appeared possible but the thing that stopped me was someone telling me, perhaps pigoo3, that it may work or it may turn my machine into an expensive anchor. So...
I kept at it, all the while learning more and more about OS X and its foibles. In 2015, involved in a new business venture, we got two new MacBook Pros and carried these on the road in our pursuits of greatness and glory. By 2014 I still was using Lion and, wanting to go further, bought a used 2009, 4,1 MP, twin Xeon 4-processor machine, upgraded it to 32GB RAM and 6TB of internal HDDs and switched to Yosemite, thus bypassing Mountain Lion and Mavericks. And then, when ElCap came out I went to that where I am now with 10.11.4, with all three machines. I have since switched from Android cells to iPhone 6S plus and iOS 9.1 and find it much easier to communicate with our Macs.
Thus, for the past ten years, I have been learning and building on my capabilities with the Mac. I would never go back to Windows although I do have Win 10 virtual through Parallels running in OS X, but now only for my one legacy device that has no Mac software, my Fujitsu fi-6130 scanner, a beautiful little machine that we used on the boat as well. I do, in fact, enjoy using Win 10 once in a while, just to remind me what I am missing.
So, Clover, keep at it. Despite any initial anguish, you will grow to really love your iMac (I even bought one for my daughter and she really loves it, too), if not just for its ease of use and reliability, but for its longevity. You will see people around with then-year-old Macs (I still have my 1,1 model) and they work. They don't just die like PCs.
Cheers and good luck...OJ
), have seen some videos & tbh it seems to run flawless , this is going to be a huge learning curve & just wondered how others who switched got on ? tbh though something had to give , fed up to the back teeth with windows, i bought a hp not 6 months ago, had a massive update from windows, lost the drivers, virgin were no help at all ( tbf it was the pc & not the network though ), so that's going & get my shiney new iMac in a few days, also bought the new trackpad, so that's it in a nutshell & stand by for some stupid questions 
