Your first day with a new Mac: the get-started guide for Windows. Update: some keyboard characters corrected: Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered? Fear not - Switch to Mac, brought to you by our colleagues over on MacFormat magazine, shows new Mac users how to move comfortably from the familiarity of Windows. Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on a Mac - just as easy! On Windows I used to... There's a myth that Macs can't right-click. On Windows I used to... The Command key replaces the [control] key as the main modifier for keyboard shortcuts. For example, á is Alt+[E], à is Alt +['], â is Alt +[I], ä is Alt +[U], ã is Alt +[N], and ß is Alt +[S]. On Windows I used to...
System Preferences –accessible from the Apple menu at the top left of your Mac's screen –does the same thing. On Windows I used to... There's no direct equivalent to the Start menu when you're on a Mac. On Windows I used to... Usually, you don't have to do this on a Mac. On Windows I used to... La FAQ du (futur) switcher. [Dernière mise à jour: 11-02-2008] Quelques conseils pour les (futurs) switchers Bon alors voilà: au vu des nombreuses questions que peuvent se poser les (futurs) switchers sur les Mac et Mac OS X, j'ai décidé de me lancer dans la création d'un post regroupant les principaux conseils, remarques, explications... concernant notre plate-forme. Je l'ai divisé en plusieurs catégories, histoire de s'y retrouver.
Mais avant cela, un petit point de "vocabulaire" : on ne dit pas "chez Mac" (c'est qui celui-là? ), on ne dit pas "passer à Mac" (vous voulez lui passer quoi à "Mac"? ), on ne dit pas "c'est bien Mac? "... Allez, on y va... 1. . Les différents MacsLes Macs sont séparés en 2 grandes familles: une plutôt orientée grand public et l'autre plutôt pour les pros: - Grand public: * le Mac Mini: minuscule Mac (16,5cm * 16,5cm * 5,1cm!). - Pour les pros et/ou les "power users": * le Mac Pro: (grosse) tour très puissante et upgradable à base de 2 voire 4 Xeons "Woodcrest" (4*bi-core=8 cores!).
. 2. . 3. Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. To use a keyboard shortcut you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (it has a symbol) and then the "c" key copies whatever is currently selected (text, graphics, and so forth) into the Clipboard. This is also known as the Command-C keyboard shortcut. A modifier key is a part of many keyboard shortcuts. A modifier key alters the way other keystrokes or mouse/trackpad clicks are interpreted by OS X.
Modifier keys include: Command, Shift, Option, Control, Caps Lock, and the Fn key. Here are the modifier key symbols you may see in OS X menus: Startup shortcuts Press the key or key combination until the expected function occurs/appears (for example, hold Option during startup until Startup Manager appears). Sleep and shut down shortcuts Finder keyboard shortcuts Application and other OS X shortcuts Note: Some applications may not support all of the following application key combinations. Universal Access - VoiceOver keyboard commands Full keyboard access. Switch 101. Mac Tutorials. Premiers pas sur Mac. As I mentioned a while back I was getting a MacBook. I've had it for a while now, and I'm loving it. There's still bugs in OS X of course (exhibit A and B), but it feels much more solid and polished than XP and Vista. And even though the MacBook is the entry laptop made of plastic the build still feels solid.
I got the middle version and upgraded to a 250G HD, which made it identical to the black MacBook but 800 SEK ($140) cheaper. After a couple of days I had most of the system in place. This is most of the software I've installed that I felt lacking from the beginning: Transmission, a bittorrent clientMactex, a LaTeX distributionAquamacs, an editor (I also tried Carbon Emacs, but Aquamacs felt better integrated)NeoOffice, an office suite (the OpenOffice OS X version is really terrible, don't bother trying it)iSquint, a video converter to convert video to mp4Firefox 3 beta 5, a web browser.
All in all I'm very pleased with the MacBook and OS X. How to switch to a Mac. How to switch to a Mac. …and enjoy doing it. Update: revisions for 2012 and Mountain Lion. You may also want to visit my Switch page, which tries to list suitable Mac OS X replacements for common Windows applications. Introduction Welcome! The motives for anyone switching will not be discussed here – discussing relative merits of computer platforms is very much like discussing cars, and therefore largely unimportant if you are getting what you want. My main point to begin with is that quasi-religious beliefs that any platform is better than another are not just irrelevant, but plain childish and stupid.
So if you know you want a Mac, you’ve come to the right place for a few basic hints that might just save you a lot of time. The major “under-the-hood” issue for non-Mac users is the underlying UNIX foundation of Mac OS X – it not being Windows makes some people nervous, but, in the end, what matters is the user interface and the way it makes most simple tasks a lot easier to accomplish. Buying Unpacking & Testing. How to get started with Mac. How to know when to buy your mac. My First Mac - Help buying and getting started with your new Mac. 10 tips for new Mac users, switching from Windows…
Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new mac users. It includes closing an application window, thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can't eject disk image), Windows .EXE files littered around the desktop after they've tried to download software and install it. The comments attached to the article are entertaining, and pick up many other common mistakes. The thing that strikes me is that most of these problems could be resolved by Apple. For example, when a user downloads an EXE file, Safari could easily give the user a quick warning that it's a Windows program and won't install on Mac.
Here's a precis list of things that TUAW and its users said in comments, and a few of my own: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. From your own site.