A windoze user for 20 odd years, I've spent the last 2 days with my beautiful new macbook pro.
It's my first time with a mac, and the learning curve isn't steep. I still have trouble navigating my open windows without the windows bar at the bottom, and I still have a hard time understanding when an app is closed or just hidden.
And I have other questions: does the mail app check emails even when it's closed? Does sleep drain a lot of battery? Is it common practice to shut down after use when not plugged-in? (to take it to class, for instance). Can I activate a standard international keyboard to type accented vowels, and not just the weird accent combinations that the mac uses? If I have a document or a folder on my "documents" folder that I access often, how can I make a "shortcut" to it?
I do have some general impressions:
-This is one quiet notebook. Very impressive.
-Shutting down and powering up is very fast. And sleeping and waking is near instantaneous. Amazing. Windoze was sooooo slow.
-the two finger shortcuts on the trackpad are a breeze to use. Very practical. I already find myself two-fingering my old dell (still transferring my life over here)
-The OS is solid as hell. No hangs, crashes, problems, slow-downs. Everything worked perfectly the first time. From internet to airports to wireless printer and scanner, sleeping/waking, everything works without a hitch. Wow. That's why I switched, and I'm very satisfied.
-I love the integrated spell checker. Very practical.
And one downside: The new excel in Windows is a lot more functional, at least in regards to conditional formatting. The mac excel still uses the old conditional formatting "way", and that's a bummer. But, can't have everything (or you can with parallels, but still haven't tried it).
Overall, I'm extremely happy. Very impressed. It's like going from a rusty old cargo ship, to the USS Enterprise D (yeah, I'm a trek geek).
In only one day, I transfered 95% of my digital life over here. Very fast, very easy. To go from my old windows desktop to my windows notebook, it took a lot longer, because of all the problems that cropped up at every turn.
After 20 years with windows and 2 days with the mac, I can say: how can anyone use that crappy os is beyond me. lol
It's my first time with a mac, and the learning curve isn't steep. I still have trouble navigating my open windows without the windows bar at the bottom, and I still have a hard time understanding when an app is closed or just hidden.
And I have other questions: does the mail app check emails even when it's closed? Does sleep drain a lot of battery? Is it common practice to shut down after use when not plugged-in? (to take it to class, for instance). Can I activate a standard international keyboard to type accented vowels, and not just the weird accent combinations that the mac uses? If I have a document or a folder on my "documents" folder that I access often, how can I make a "shortcut" to it?
I do have some general impressions:
-This is one quiet notebook. Very impressive.
-Shutting down and powering up is very fast. And sleeping and waking is near instantaneous. Amazing. Windoze was sooooo slow.
-the two finger shortcuts on the trackpad are a breeze to use. Very practical. I already find myself two-fingering my old dell (still transferring my life over here)
-The OS is solid as hell. No hangs, crashes, problems, slow-downs. Everything worked perfectly the first time. From internet to airports to wireless printer and scanner, sleeping/waking, everything works without a hitch. Wow. That's why I switched, and I'm very satisfied.
-I love the integrated spell checker. Very practical.
And one downside: The new excel in Windows is a lot more functional, at least in regards to conditional formatting. The mac excel still uses the old conditional formatting "way", and that's a bummer. But, can't have everything (or you can with parallels, but still haven't tried it).
Overall, I'm extremely happy. Very impressed. It's like going from a rusty old cargo ship, to the USS Enterprise D (yeah, I'm a trek geek).
In only one day, I transfered 95% of my digital life over here. Very fast, very easy. To go from my old windows desktop to my windows notebook, it took a lot longer, because of all the problems that cropped up at every turn.
After 20 years with windows and 2 days with the mac, I can say: how can anyone use that crappy os is beyond me. lol
