After 20 years I finally caved in...

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PaulSecteur

PaulSecteur

No longer a Specialized fanboy
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Walsall, West Mids.
... and brought a Macbook Pro.

Not a new one, its a low spec mid 2012, but shes ripe for an SSD and ram upgrade.

There are a few things I have found that are a little odd, such as when you download an app or program you have to drag it to the applications folder, then drag it to the dock for easy access. They can be put on the desktop but its almost as if apple dont want you to do that, they want you to have an empty desktop.

I'll see how I get on, it was cheap enough to sell on without loosing any.

Any pro tips from any of Steve Jobs fan club on here, especially with regards to swapping from windows?

Paul
 
smutchin

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
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The Red Enclave
PaulSecteur said:
They can be put on the desktop but its almost as if apple dont want you to do that, they want you to have an empty desktop.
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I applaud them in this. It's easy to bring up thumbnails of all your apps by using Launchpad, accessed from the Dock. Or just keep all your most commonly used apps in the Dock.

Not every app requires you to install it to the Applications folder manually - some find their own way there. You'll also find that Apple only wants you to install approved apps that are available on the App Store - most of the time, you have to go into your security settings and set an exception for any non-approved apps. I think this is a sensible security measure - it forces you to at least stop and think about what you're installing and where it came from.

One nifty feature of Mac OS X is the ability to have multiple desktops - press F3 to bring up thumbnails of everything you've got open on your current desktop (making it easy to switch to different apps/windows), plus a bar at the top of the screen showing other available desktops, and the option to add new ones/close ones you don't want.

I'm not going to get involved in any silly arguments about whether Mac OS X is better or worse than Windows. I prefer OS X but that's largely because that's what I'm used to rather than because I believe it is better than Windows. (I've been using Macs for all my working life, and we've not had a Windows machine at home for some years, apart from my son's laptop, which I don't use.)
 
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Pale Rider

Pale Rider

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Leaving aside the Mac/Windows argument, my 2010 MacBook Pro is still functioning well.

Quite dear at the time - £1,000 - but it's turned out good value for me having only got a couple of years out of previous Windows laptops.

Or put another way, I doubt there are many 2012 Windows laptops that are still a viable secondhand buy.
 
Tin Pot

Tin Pot

Guru
PaulSecteur said:
... and brought a Macbook Pro.

Not a new one, its a low spec mid 2012, but shes ripe for an SSD and ram upgrade.

There are a few things I have found that are a little odd, such as when you download an app or program you have to drag it to the applications folder, then drag it to the dock for easy access. They can be put on the desktop but its almost as if apple dont want you to do that, they want you to have an empty desktop.

I'll see how I get on, it was cheap enough to sell on without loosing any.

Any pro tips from any of Steve Jobs fan club on here, especially with regards to swapping from windows?

Paul
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Forget everything you had to know to operate windows and just do things intuitively as if you've never used a computer before.
 
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