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Wing it, you'll be grand in about an hour. Maybe google Mac-PC differences as well.
It's easy enough - in fact they're simpler to use than PCs - but I'd get someone to let you muck around with their Mac for an hour or two first.
A Mac is like what a PC would be like if Fisher-Price made PCs. Lots of great big colourful buttons and plinky noises and stuff, but otherwise not at all dissimilar. I agree with Quink - save the £100 and just have a go on someone else's for a bit first.
Wing it. I have both and the Mac (which i prefer) didn't take long to figure out.
If you are tech-savvy which you are then you won't need to do a course. I've got one - you can practise on mine if you want - or jsut go to the Mac Store and get a nice attractive young man to talk you through one for 20 mins on the pretence of buying one!
Macs are a piece of piss.
The only things you you need to know are instead of Control key C and Control key V you press Apple key C and Apple key V. And the @ is above the number 2 for some inexplicable reason. And you just single click on the icons which are lined up at the bottom of the screen.
It also turns on and off a lot quicker. To shut down you click on the apple symbol in the top left hand corner.
Instead of right clicking a mouse button you have to press the control key on the keyboard and press the mouse down.
And the minimise symbols are in the top left, not the top right. Clicking close on a window won't close the program, just the window. If you want to close the program you either control-click on the program symbol in the dock (tool-bar) and select 'quit' or click on the program name from the options at the top of the screen and scroll down to 'quit' from there.
Macs are very simple to use and are the favoured computer of big sexy bastards everywhere. ;)
Ah, thank you for that, I suspected as much. I'd like to be a big sexy bastard too Rad. And I like RoMo's idea very, very much. Maybe if I'm nice enough to them in the Apple store they'll give me a new shiny Macbook like they did with the iPod...
Once you've had Mac you'll never go back
But they have but one button on the mouse! They are the work of the devil!
Although if someone wants to give me a mega amazing one with Protools on it, possibly as part of an interactive studio set up, I could learn to live with it.
Oh, and what everyone else said. You'll be fine. Point. Click. They invented it.
You can use a two button mouse just fine with a mac.
And help is pretty good. No need to buy a book.
wing it. macs just put everything on the opposite side to windows
It's much easier to go from PC to Mac than the opposite direction. You'll be fine.
(Patroclus ripped off that Fisher-Price line from Charlie Brooker, I think. But she's better looking than him, so let's not quibble.)
Hm, I actually ripped it off Mr BC, whom I now suspect must have ripped it off Charlie Brooker. My, plagiarism is rife in the world of humorous technical analogy.
Windows copied Mac OS Emma. That's why there's such animosity between Microsoft and Apple. Though strangely whenever Bill Gates and Steve Jobs meet at parties they get along great. For documentary evidence go here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhmWkRfyAI :D
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