How much time to get use to mac?

[sgntscrawn]

As someone who works for an Apple reseller (and hence I sell macs to HEAPS of switchers) - I'd say a week or two to get things down.

Apple's Switch 101 website is good for a primer - for the nitty gritty things you're used to on a windows, then how to do them on a mac.

My best advice is to play as much as you can, and use the apple.com's support pages - they're heaps better than anything M$ gives you.

Now, I work in Australia, but I'm pretty sure its the case everywhere - but you can get 90 days worth of phone support when you first buy one - good for a last resort, and they're pretty helpful.

 

[Father Jack]

It really depends on how much computer experience you have, but most get to grips with the basics in about a week ..

 

[mgnicks]

I have a 2 1/2 year old son who uses Safari and Tux Paint and DVD Player on a G3 iMac as good as i do.


I always say this about Macs and OS X. The more you know about using Windows the harder it will be to use a mac because you have to 'unlearn' the stuff you have learnt due to the way Windows does things.

Such as when you stick in a USB removable drive. What you sitting there waiting for? You can use the drive already and What you trying to download a DVD playing codec for? There's one already there. It's the silly things that get you i think.

Completely new users could skip Windows and go straight to OS X and get stuff done in no time.

 

[neiltc13]

The basics are fine but I'm in a different boat to the others here, it took my several months of owning my first Mac, an iBook G4, to feel comfortable using it. Give yourself lots of time.

 

[ClassicBean]

I just had to get in the mindset of "if I want to do that where would it be rather than where did they hide it".

Bang on.

 

[Andrew Henry]

Took me <24 hours to feel pretty comfortable with it. But I still learn something new everyday, like I just learned where to put the screen savers, since I'd never needed to do that before, but today I did.

 

[tcmacintosh]

within a day or 2 you will have learnt how to do almost everything and then a couple more weeks just to learn little things that are not so obvious, but all in all Leopard is a very simple to use operating system for users.

You won't be disappointed on your purchase.