Our first Mac!
I've been a DOS/Windows lifer since our first IBM PC in the early 80's. Grew up in a Windows environment and didn't really see the attraction of a Mac. That is until I got my first iPhone in 2008, and since then, have expanded to an iPad and an iPad Mini. Now, our household has 3 iPhones, an iPad 3rd gen and an iPad Mini 2, with 2 aging Windows desktops running Win7 & win8.1. The desktop running Win7 (my wife's computer) was on its last legs, so sooner or later we would have to get a new one for her. We struggled with whether to finally get a Mac, or to just replace it with another Windows desktop.
Anyway, when the new retina iMac and new Mac Mini's got announced last week, we decided to take the plunge. Struggled between the retina iMac or just a Mac Mini for a short time. But because this was to replace my wife's system, and she's a light user, I thought a retina iMac would be a waste. Then I found out about the limitations of the new Mac Minis with respect to RAM upgrade, and that made up my mind to try to grab a refurbished late-2012 Mac Mini that was still available at the time. And it was a good thing we made up our minds because soon after ordering, stock was depleted.
So yesterday, I unboxed our first Mac in the family, and got it set up and upgraded to OSX Yosemite. Being a long time Windows user, the Mac environment is definitely foreign and I'll need to do a lot of researching and reading to learn even the basics (for example, I was trying to map to a shared folder on my Windows Server and I struggled to do it on the Mac, because there's really no drive hierarchy and no network drive mounting function.)
Anyway, this forum looks to be the go-to place for questions like this, so I'll just end my first mac-related post on that note.