Mac Users Gimme A Hand

[ChezC3]

Well, as an early anniversary gift last weekend my wonderful wife bought me a MacbookPro. I've been wanting one for some time now, and the little lady god bless her heart went out and got me one.

Here's the problem, I don't know squat about Apple computers. The last time I actually dealt with an Apple computer was in grade school with Basic and the turtle (I think that's what it was called) I can run our iphones, the ipod, and her ipad all well enough but I'm getting to have to learn the ins and outs of this OS.

So any information would be swell. I will probably post from time to time questions regarding different aspects and hope that one of you will be kind enough to give me a hand.

First question I have is -- Are the c&p features of Apple a matter of point and drag or are there actually c&p features? I tried to c&p while toggling between tabs and for multiple items but when I went to the well a second time the original info I dragged disappeared.

What's the deal?

Thanks

 

[ChezC3]

48 views who must all be PC'ers...or there's a secret code word I am not aware of that Mac users have to confirm that I'm "one of them"...

 

[spud_meister]

On a mac, you use the function key where you would use the crtl key on a PC.

Better advice, install Windows on it.

 

[Rainman05]

48 views who must all be PC'ers...or there's a secret code word I am not aware of that Mac users have to confirm that I'm "one of them"...

Why would you ever buy a mac?

You deserve to suffer alone, in agony, mac-user.

 

[ChezC3]

Why would you ever buy a mac?

You deserve to suffer alone, in agony, mac-user.

:lol:

This bad boy is dynamite righteous, what the hell you talkin...

 

[Rainman05]

:lol:

This bad boy is dynamite righteous, what the hell you talkin...

Death to the infidels and the cult of Steve jobs!

I'm just kiddin'. i actually never owned a macbook, maybe it's good or not. Actually ,in my entire city, maybe you'd find 1-2 obscure, friendless, fat guy with a macbook. Everybody else has PCs. Let me put it this way, the only apple products you'll see in my city, are fruit-based. But I love the whole PC vs Apple culture that exists in the US and online I can nurture this fetish.

 

[ChezC3]

On a mac, you use the function key where you would use the crtl key on a PC.

Better advice, install Windows on it.

That defeats the whole purpose, but there is no function key... control, command, option, shift, ah, hehe, uh, fn = function?

I figured out the c&p. The problem I had was exclusive to that particular website for some reason.

It will take a little getting use to but I'm digging this OS...

 

[spud_meister]

That defeats the whole purpose, but there is no function key... control, command, option, shift, ah, hehe, uh, fn = function?

I figured out the c&p. The problem I had was exclusive to that particular website for some reason.

My bad, it's the command key. You use that instead of control.

 

[ChezC3]

Death to the infidels and the cult of Steve jobs!

I'm just kiddin'. i actually never owned a macbook, maybe it's good or not. Actually ,in my entire city, maybe you'd find 1-2 obscure, friendless, fat guy with a macbook. Everybody else has PCs. Let me put it this way, the only apple products you'll see in my city, are fruit-based. But I love the whole PC vs Apple culture that exists in the US and online I can nurture this fetish.

I laugh at those gang wars, but yeah it is a PC world for the most part, but this bad boy has some tricks, and I'm just starting to figure it out... I should take my happy butt to the Apple Store for a free seminar, but, you know, I'm just too cool for that...

Power:Size Mac vs PC competition is none, Apple hands down.

 

[ChezC3]

My bad, it's the command key. You use that instead of control.

Then wtf is the fn?

 

[spud_meister]

Then wtf is the fn?

The f-keys up the top of the keyboard have a secondary function, you use the fn key to access the secondary functions.

 

[ChezC3]

The f-keys up the top of the keyboard have a secondary function, you use the fn key to access the secondary functions.

ahh, muchos gracias...

 

[Rainman05]

I laugh at those gang wars, but yeah it is a PC world for the most part, but this bad boy has some tricks, and I'm just starting to figure it out... I should take my happy butt to the Apple Store for a free seminar, but, you know, I'm just too cool for that...

Power:Size Mac vs PC competition is none, Apple hands down.

nerd gang wars.
The only kind of gang warfare that I take part in. large scale internet invasions. Surgical meme strikes and tactical sarcastic deployment.

The PC master race is fighting on all sides against dirty console peasants in the great gaming war + the war for the conquest of mount Hardware and the rich lands of Softeria against the Apple snob coalition.

 

[ChezC3]

nerd gang wars.
The only kind of gang warfare that I take part in. large scale internet invasions. Surgical meme strikes and tactical sarcastic deployment.

The PC master race is fighting on all sides against dirty console peasants in the great gaming war + the war for the conquest of mount Hardware and the rich lands of Softeria against the Apple snob coalition.

You're sounding very D&D-ish, based on your own previous description of fellow city dwellers, you sure you don't own a Mac?

 

[Rainman05]

You're sounding very D&D-ish, based on your own previous description of fellow city dwellers, you sure you don't own a Mac?

No. PC and proud.

 

[ChezC3]

No. PC and proud.

say it loud...

:soap

 

[Bob Blaylock]

On a mac, you use the function key where you would use the crtl key on a PC.

Better advice, install Windows on it.

That defeats the whole purpose, but there is no function key... control, command, option, shift, ah, hehe, uh, fn = function?

I figured out the c&p. The problem I had was exclusive to that particular website for some reason.

It will take a little getting use to but I'm digging this OS...

Where Spud Meister said “function key”, what he meant was the command key—that's the key with the cloverleaf-like icon on it; on some keyboards, it also has an Apple logo.



The command key in MacOS pretty much behaves like the Control key does under Windows. It's behaved like this from the very beginning of the Lisa/Macintosh line, since before Windows even existed. Earlier versions of Windows and associated software used key combinations that were less intuitive, but eventually took to copying the Macintosh conventions, using the Control key in place of the Command key.

The reason for so little response to your initial post is surely the difficulty in trying to teach someone how to use an operating system, in the context of a forum thread.

What I can tell you is that once you free yourself of the Microsoft brainwashing that has resulted from all the years of using Windows, I think you'll find that MacOS simply makes much more sense. Microsoft has long had a rather unique arrogance, of trying to force its own inferior ways of thinking and of doing things on an industry that would much rather go in directions that are more practical and intuitive and standardized. MacOS, unlike Windows or anything else from Microsoft, is designed not according to the whims of one or two arrogant, ignorant, self-important jackasses, but on genuine research as to what ergonomically works the best for the most people.

 

[ChezC3]

Where Spud Meister said “function key”, what he meant was the command key—that's the key with the cloverleaf-like icon on it; on some keyboards, it also has an Apple logo.


The command key in MacOS pretty much behaves like the Control key does under Windows. It's behaved like this from the very beginning of the Lisa/Macintosh line, since before Windows even existed. Earlier versions of Windows and associated software used key combinations that were less intuitive, but eventually took to copying the Macintosh conventions, using the Control key in place of the Command key.

The reason for so little response to your initial post is surely the difficulty in trying to teach someone how to use an operating system, in the context of a forum thread.

What I can tell you is that once you free yourself of the Microsoft brainwashing that has resulted from all the years of using Windows, I think you'll find that MacOS simply makes much more sense. Microsoft has long had a rather unique arrogance, of trying to force its own inferior ways of thinking and of doing things on an industry that would much rather go in directions that are more practical and intuitive and standardized. MacOS, unlike Windows or anything else from Microsoft, is designed not according to the whims of one or two arrogant, ignorant, self-important jackasses, but on genuine research as to what ergonomically works the best for the most people.

Not that I've had the problem, but what's the equiv of Cntrl+Alt+Del?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Not that I've had the problem, but what's the equiv of Cntrl+Alt+Del?

There really isn't an exact equivalent. But then, that's something that hasn't really been consistent across all the different versions of the MS-DOS/Windows platform.

What are you trying to do?

 

[ChezC3]

There really isn't an exact equivalent. But then, that's something that hasn't really been consistent across all the different versions of the MS-DOS/Windows platform.

What are you trying to do?

That was PC command for Task Manager. Reboots the system if it locks up

 

[Bob Blaylock]

That was PC command for Task Manager. Reboots the system if it locks up

There isn't really a direct counterpart to Windows' Task Mangler.

I don't think I've ever had any Macintosh running under any version of MacOS X ever “lock up”*the way Windows systems often do. I don't know that it's even possible, short of some significant hardware malfunction. If it did happen, I suppose the remedy would be to unplug it, wait a few seconds, plug it back in, then turn it on. I guess, since yours is a laptop, you'd need to pull the battery.

 

[ChezC3]

There isn't really a direct counterpart to Windows' Task Mangler.

I don't think I've ever had any Macintosh running under any version of MacOS X ever “lock up”*the way Windows systems often do. I don't know that it's even possible, short of some significant hardware malfunction. If it did happen, I suppose the remedy would be to unplug it, wait a few seconds, plug it back in, then turn it on. I guess, since yours is a laptop, you'd need to pull the battery.

No removable batteries on the new ones, at least not that I'm aware... but yeah, like I said, I don't have cause for it but just wanted to know in case I did.

Thanks...

 

[spud_meister]

There isn't really a direct counterpart to Windows' Task Mangler.

I don't think I've ever had any Macintosh running under any version of MacOS X ever “lock up”*the way Windows systems often do. I don't know that it's even possible, short of some significant hardware malfunction. If it did happen, I suppose the remedy would be to unplug it, wait a few seconds, plug it back in, then turn it on. I guess, since yours is a laptop, you'd need to pull the battery.

It is possible, and on the Macs at my work it happens a lot.

 

[American]

:applaud .

 

[American]

Where Spud Meister said “function key”, what he meant was the command key—that's the key with the cloverleaf-like icon on it; on some keyboards, it also has an Apple logo.

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The command key in MacOS pretty much behaves like the Control key does under Windows. It's behaved like this from the very beginning of the Lisa/Macintosh line, since before Windows even existed. Earlier versions of Windows and associated software used key combinations that were less intuitive, but eventually took to copying the Macintosh conventions, using the Control key in place of the Command key.

The reason for so little response to your initial post is surely the difficulty in trying to teach someone how to use an operating system, in the context of a forum thread.

What I can tell you is that once you free yourself of the Microsoft brainwashing that has resulted from all the years of using Windows, I think you'll find that MacOS simply makes much more sense. Microsoft has long had a rather unique arrogance, of trying to force its own inferior ways of thinking and of doing things on an industry that would much rather go in directions that are more practical and intuitive and standardized. MacOS, unlike Windows or anything else from Microsoft, is designed not according to the whims of one or two arrogant, ignorant, self-important jackasses, but on genuine research as to what ergonomically works the best for the most people.

Police that keyboard, son! :mrgreen: