glyndav: You obvously haven't read my posts. I don't understand why to do a page down function, you have to press TWO keys. A moment ago, I was sitting here casually with my left elbow on desk, and I realised that to page down, I was going to have to shift position and use BOTH HANDS to page down a web page. That's INSANE.
Yes, I looked at the keyboard. Given the fact however that there is no color coding on the keys (like with PC notebookss) that indicates you need to press function and page down together, how was I supposed to know? It just not apparent that this is the case.
I guess I got caught up in all the hype. It must be that people don't mind pressing multple keys to do simple tasks.
I have plenty of criticisms of windows, but in hindsight, compard to OS X, it doesn't seem that bad.
Oh.... you found answers to issues like the mouse motion (because tech support had apparently never heard of this), where to get the lucida console or vt100 font, how to get the VPN client not to use the remote gateway, or how to make the teeny little windows controls easier to click on?
I think turning on a windows PC would have been much easier. Everything is right there in front of you. You click an icon... it opens up and it appears on the taskbar at the bottom. You minise it and it disappears into the taskbar again. You click on the taskbar icon and it opens again.
OS X does not have the same flat application display that allows you to find things quickly.
I like the fact that on windows when you maximise a window, it MAXIMISES and takes the full screen. Then, I can easily alt-tab between them. Because OS X doesn't do this, I find myself WASTING time moving and dragging windows around. I don't want to have to make the decisions where windows are placed, and I don't want 10 windows on the screen at once. I want them all to be as large as possible, and I want to alt-tab between them. That's simple, efficient and fast!
I downloaded a windows remote desktop application too. It sucks because it won't go 'full screen' and so my windows desktop running at 1280x1024 has to be scrolled just to get to everything I want... once again, a time waster.