Windows to OS X…how did you find it?

Ctrl-W in Windows

.. Or ctrl-F4

Moving to a mac and using Office is like inventing the car and still using a saddle & reins
Im not necessarily advocating using Pages either but look into the slew of distraction free writing tools like Ulysses and iaWriter (and markdown generally).
The biggest advantage Ive found with Mac vs Windows is I actually get more work done on a Mac than I ever did on Windows (esp that horrid mess of 8.1). Its not any particular program more the philosophy behind some of the best mac programs. My advice is buy a cheap Mac mini and try it for a few months, see if you get on with it.

I prefer the trackpad on my macbook air to the magic mouse on this iMac. But I prefer both to the Windows experience (only ever got as far as win7 tho). If you load DashKards as a widget on the dashboard, it has a whole load of different apps (+OSX Shortcuts) which is quite useful. I know the dashboard is a bit old hat now but I use it for quick ref for weather/traffic/conversions/delivery status/calc etc.

If you want to cycle through apps (alt-tab in Win) it’s cmd-tab on the mac. Also I find hitting f3 to give yo a visual view of open apps useful and f4 for all apps.

Other stuff, I prefer downloads in ‘grid’ (in fact I don’t use the fan at all), and I use TAGS a lot for simpler indexing of files,

Oh and check out ‘hot corners’ in settings/keyboard. I use that for sleep/screensaver/etc so you can just plant the mouse in a corner and click rather than finding stuff off the apple menu

Pages and Keynote are actually pretty good, Prefer Excel to numbers. I have the office 365 lifetime subscription so I can use both depending on mood/what I need to do.

Maybe if you got an outfit you could be like a computer productivity, internet fairness superhero or something.

Does the outfit look like the fella on here?

it’s just fanbois that annoy me

You know you ‘reverse fanboys’ are just as bad as they are, right? [/quote]

I enjoy that the one constant on internet forums are the fanboys. These threads panned out much the same 16 years ago when people were arguing about n64 and playstation. Very good, with all this new fangled social media and whatnot it makes me feel warm inside to know that traditional internet values have been preserved.

As for the OP, sorry for mentioning other operating systems in my other post (Although you did ask about moving form one to the other to be fair), but I did at least mention Expose (Can’t remember how to launch it sorry), which no one else has – way better than crappy alt-tab, once you go there you’ll never go back.

Also: One thing I found confusing (Or brilliant once I got used to it) in OSX was the procedure for installing applications. You open a DMG file, which mounts a drive on your desktop (And normally opens a window) which contains an application. You then drag the application from the new window to somewhere on your HDD (Usually your applications folder). You can then umount (Eject) the mounted DMG from your desktop. It was a strange concept that the application is a self contained package which didn’t need installation as such but just dragging to a folder. Uninstallation is the opposite, just drag from applications to the trash. Quite lovely really (Though I’m sure someone will be along soon to tell me I was doing it wrong).

had a few weird installations that do things like ask you to drag the icon from the left side of a window to the right side. OK it’s not exactly hard to do but it did seem a strange thing to have to do. but just plonking the whole thing in place is much easier than watching the progress bar.

installing stuff from a central repository too. a concept that took decades to go beyond linux, thanks to IOS, and now everyone wants one.

Uninstallation is the opposite, just drag from applications to the trash. Quite lovely really (Though I’m sure someone will be along soon to tell me I was doing it wrong).

App Trap gets rid of anything left behind as well.It’s just a preference pane that works in the background.

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Then, I clicked ‘upgrade’ to Yosemite and wished I hadn’t. Something somewhere isn’t right and it’s like using Vista all over again. Apple looked at it and now recommending a full clean install, despite me using time machine their preferred method of backups, which the now point the finger at for dragging something across that shouldn’t be there, despite the fact that it wasn’t an issue before the upgrade.

There are other ways to get back to your previous OS but a good strategy is to have a complete, bootable clone of your system – Time Machine doesn’t offer you this. Have a read of the following to avoid further issues…

http://pondini.org/TM/27.html

If you don’t want to do the above then it might be worth making a bootable version of your OS on a USB stick – Ars Technica is a good place for info of a similar elk…

Soooo, having ordered a MacBook Pro from John Lewis under their Black Friday £100 shenanigans (figured it wasn’t never going to get much cheaper than that) should I not bother upgrading to Yosemite?

Do you down load Firefox from their website or do you have to go through the App Store?

How useful is iPhoto? I was thinking I’d need Lightroom or Photoshop Elements….

Do you down load Firefox from their website or do you have to go through the App Store?

From Mozilla, here: (link[/url])

How useful is iPhoto? I was thinking I’d need Lightroom or Photoshop Elements….

It depends entirely on what you want to do with your photos. Lightroom is very, very good for organising and developing – think digital darkroom; Photoshop is for editing – high-heels on badgers, that sort of thing. As I said, depends on what you’re after. You have iPhoto anyway, so probably makes sense to have a go and see how it works for you.

It depends entirely on what you want to do with your photos.

I usually run them through elements (or the RAW editor) for minor tweaks, more developing than manipulation.
Thanks for the Firefox link.