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OS X: My experience so far
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<blockquote data-quote="thehappyhitman" data-source="post: 937060" data-attributes="member: 125127"><p>a HUGE help is getting to know keyboard shortcuts. Rather than becoming, as the head of the networking and IT department at my school puts it, "mouse impaired". the keyboard is your friend. and many work on windows as well. </p><p>The resizing thing used to be a BIG problem for me, but now it doesn't seem to bother me anymore. The window takes up only as much space as it needs, no more, no less. Which seems to be the general philosophy for most things mac. </p><p>minimize the dock in system prefs</p><p>the dock is labeled as you mouse over the icons.</p><p>not having a registry is awesome. less things to have issues with, which is why windows has all those registry cleaner programs for it.</p><p>You should play with spaces. instead of having 1 desktop you can have 4.</p><p>Play with the finder. It's great. whatever you need it's there.</p><p>as far as the apps looking the same, you don't have to play around for hours trying to find things. if it really bothers you i believe there are apps to personalize this more. I haven't used any however, so i can't exactly speak to it.</p><p>After a little over a month, I prefer my Mac. These frustrations hit me hard at first too, then i learned, and it IS more intuitive. I just was used to the programming MS had done on me. Take the control panel for example, I have to navigate like 4 or 5 windows just to put my monitor to sleep faster, vs 1 window and 2 navigations on my Mac. it's so intuitive you try to fight it, like you had to do with windows.</p><p>Just my 2 cents.</p><p>BTW... that was a good reply doug, and your right about the first part of your post. Not a big fan of the "just get over it posts". It's a learning experience, thats why it's the SWITCHER HANGOUT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thehappyhitman, post: 937060, member: 125127"] a HUGE help is getting to know keyboard shortcuts. Rather than becoming, as the head of the networking and IT department at my school puts it, "mouse impaired". the keyboard is your friend. and many work on windows as well. The resizing thing used to be a BIG problem for me, but now it doesn't seem to bother me anymore. The window takes up only as much space as it needs, no more, no less. Which seems to be the general philosophy for most things mac. minimize the dock in system prefs the dock is labeled as you mouse over the icons. not having a registry is awesome. less things to have issues with, which is why windows has all those registry cleaner programs for it. You should play with spaces. instead of having 1 desktop you can have 4. Play with the finder. It's great. whatever you need it's there. as far as the apps looking the same, you don't have to play around for hours trying to find things. if it really bothers you i believe there are apps to personalize this more. I haven't used any however, so i can't exactly speak to it. After a little over a month, I prefer my Mac. These frustrations hit me hard at first too, then i learned, and it IS more intuitive. I just was used to the programming MS had done on me. Take the control panel for example, I have to navigate like 4 or 5 windows just to put my monitor to sleep faster, vs 1 window and 2 navigations on my Mac. it's so intuitive you try to fight it, like you had to do with windows. Just my 2 cents. BTW... that was a good reply doug, and your right about the first part of your post. Not a big fan of the "just get over it posts". It's a learning experience, thats why it's the SWITCHER HANGOUT. [/QUOTE]
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