[Closed] Macbook Air - resources for a novice

An Apple fan that's never had a Macintosh?

http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/

...even though I'm fairly sure this thread is shenanigans.

An Apple fan that's never had a Macintosh?

To be fair, many fans of Apple have never been near their desktop/mobile offerings. iPad, iPhones and iPods are Apple's biggest sellers.

An Apple fan that's never had a Macintosh?

http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/

If you're using it for the usual MS Office applications then I find the MS Office for Mac pretty good and you can set up the track pad to behave like a normal two-button mouse - though i'm used to the track pad in Apple mode and prefer it.

Good luck with Finder. It's probably the most useless, counter-productive piece of [s]sh1t[/s] software known to man.

If you're using it for the usual MS Office applications then I find the MS Office for Mac pretty good and you can set up the track pad to behave like a normal two-button mouse - though i'm used to the track pad in Apple mode and prefer it.

I still have a windows based tablet from work for basic MS Office "things" but I got a GoPro for Christmas and want the mac for my pics, vids & music, I guess a social hub. I like the way the track pad works and the things I've sussed I do like the way Apple have done them but some things do not appear to follow a logical pattern.

But you don't really say what the lvel of stupidity is or if you've used Macintosh at work and it was all set up for you etc?

is it...

If you've got an Macbook are you still looking for a DVD drive.

Did you know you can click in the top left Magnifying glass and type mouse... It will bring up system preferences for mouse, all your documents that have mouse in it, a dictionary definition for mouse and you can search the web for it.

I used to be able to partition my HD but can't find it in apples most retarded stupid OS yet...Lion

OP, short of reading your mind, how about you tell us what things you are having trouble with.

I used to be able to partition my HD but can't find it in apples most retarded stupid OS yet...Lion

Disk Utility...as it ever was.

CMD+Space + type 'disk...'

Do what lots of windoze nerds do and boot camp then load windoze and use it as a PC, or run parallels and operate both.

I wonder what happens if you load it with windoze8, will it play nursery rhymes?

I would recommend the book "OS X The Missing Manual" to anyone new to Macs. Even has a chapter on making the transition from Windows.

Do what lots of windoze nerds do and boot camp then load windoze and use it as a PC, or run parallels and operate both.

Probably an innocent mistake, but it's spelt Windows.

Appreciate the efforts in trying to help all but I had difficulty in renaming a folder (serious?!?) which is why I am looking for hard or electronic resources to save myself looking like a ****t and asking hundreds of questions.

You wouldn't think I used to be goodwith tech 15 years ago.... How times change...

I had difficulty in renaming a folder

Give the MBA to a friend or relative.

Failing that:

Select the folder and tap return

or

Select the folder then tap on it again with trackpad

or

select the folder > hit cmd+i or right click > get info > rename where it says name and extension > hit return

Well, short of reading your mind, how about you tell us what things you are having trouble with.

I really don't have trouble with Macintosh computers. Well apart from the fact Apple are more interested in building consumer toys than proper workstations but that's another topic.

I was just trying to find out what the chaps level of self styled stupidity was.

I was talking to the OP, billy. Have edited it to make it clearer, as can see how it could have been misconstrued.

when i switched to a mac the best way to approach working out how to do anything was to think like a small child (or my mother in law) who had never used a computer and then do what they would do.

That seemed to work fine. I assume you have imovie in there? that is simple to work but will fill up your storage if you are making HD movies - get a large external drive for all that stuff.

Click then click again (but not so quick as to double click) that's how I've always done it.

I would recommend the book "OS X The Missing Manual" to anyone new to Macs. Even has a chapter on making the transition from Windows.

Also, don't forget there is help built into OSX. In whatever app you are in, Finder for example, tap 'Help' in the toolbar (up the top), and type in your query.

For example:

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..and selecting 'renaming files and folders', gives you:

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Jamie - Member
Probably an innocent mistake, but it's spelt Windows.

Only on STW 😕

Only on STW

Nah. It's spelt like that in most places.