I am not schweb, but I am bored....
sigp6 said:
Schweb,
Just trying to bring up pictures and then scroll through them as a slideshow is a task.
How do you get thumbnails of all the jpegs on the HD when I do a search - most of them just show a generic icon and I have to open them up one at a time.
Spotlight thumbnails everything automatically. I did a search for jpg and got 9,828 pictures. It took less than 15 seconds to complete. In the "Images" bar for the results there is an arrow. Click on it and it opens into a full page slideshow.
sigp6 said:
How do you open 2 browser windows easily? In Windows I just click the browser icon twice. I know I can do Apple key-N from an open browser window but had to figure that out...
<cmd>-n works for almost all apps in OS X. I do not think it can get more intuitive than that. You have to learn it, but this can be accomplished by clicking on the file menu of (again) almost any app. The option for new window will be there along with the default shortcut.
sigp6 said:
And I really cannot stand the Windows 3.11 type menu bar at the top of the screen for
all open windows. Why can't I just close the individual window itself instead of going to the menu bar at the top.
??? you can close the individual window itself. Either by clicking on the close button in the window frame or typing <cmd>-w. Again something common to all Apple apps.
sigp6 said:
I realize that part of this is due to being a Windows user for years, but to me it is more intuitive that I can do almost any function 2,3 or 4 different ways. I don't have to modify my behavior to do it the computer's way.
So consistency is a disadvantage. I must confess I have never heard that one before. But really you generally have a similar number of options on how to do things in windows and OS X. They just are not the same options.
sigp6 said:
I haven't really played with it for a while but my wife is constantly running into issues trying to figure out very simple tasks.
Like what? So she is not familiar with the OS and has to learn a new skill. It happens.
sigp6 said:
Avid6eek,
I agree as to OS X's sluggishness (perceived anyways). When my wife got the Powerbook I was still using an old Dell P4 1.6Ghz and the Powerbook felt like a dog in comparison. Now I'm using a Pentium -M 1.6 and now the Powerbook seems reeeeally slow.
OK. I have no basis for argument here since it is perception. It is a common complaint that has some validity but not to the extreme you seem to imply. How much memory is in the system? I have both a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz Thinkpad and a 1.33GHz PB and while I would say the Thinkpad is faster in some things I would not classify the difference as significant for most tasks.