First thoughts on my new Macintosh
I've spent the evening (well, the last hour and a half since I've been home) on my new Macintosh. I've installed absolutely nothing since I received it this afternoon; I've only updated the OS and configured WiFi at work and at home.
I've used four apps: Safari, Mail.app, TextEdit, and system preferences. I've been able to do everything I need to at home. Incredible. I thought I'd need at least Firefox, but not yet. Safari is better on the Mac than the PC. Yeah, I'm impressed with Safari.
I suppose the ease of transition has been helped by the fact that I've pretty much moved my life to the web. We shall see if the
honeymoon ends as I get deeper into the switch. I must soon move my iTunes library, iPod, and iPhone.
I'm surprised about how much I've figured out so far; a quick help or Google search has given me the tips I need to uncover the quirkiness that is the Mac UI. Keyboard shortcuts are the most baffling, but I'm figuring them out and getting the hang of them. E.g. it's option-arrow to jump back a word, Fn-F10 to expose all windows of the current app. There should be a tab-key combination to cycle through the current app's open windows, but I've not yet discovered it. NBD, since I've got expose.
For the most part, the darn thing just works.
The single coolest thing I've found so far is the auto-brightness on the screen and keyboard. When I darken the room, the screen automatically dims, and the keyboard lights up. Beautiful. It's the first laptop I've ever seen that I can use in the dark. Totally awesome.
Alright, the ThinkPad has a light over the keyboard, but it must be turned on manually, and how am I to determine the keystroke in the dark?
Yeah, Macs really are that awesome.
Question for the Mac gurus. The delete key on a Mac functions like a backspace on a PC. Where is the equivalent of the PC's delete button?
I've used four apps: Safari, Mail.app, TextEdit, and system preferences. I've been able to do everything I need to at home. Incredible. I thought I'd need at least Firefox, but not yet. Safari is better on the Mac than the PC. Yeah, I'm impressed with Safari.
I suppose the ease of transition has been helped by the fact that I've pretty much moved my life to the web. We shall see if the
honeymoon ends as I get deeper into the switch. I must soon move my iTunes library, iPod, and iPhone.
I'm surprised about how much I've figured out so far; a quick help or Google search has given me the tips I need to uncover the quirkiness that is the Mac UI. Keyboard shortcuts are the most baffling, but I'm figuring them out and getting the hang of them. E.g. it's option-arrow to jump back a word, Fn-F10 to expose all windows of the current app. There should be a tab-key combination to cycle through the current app's open windows, but I've not yet discovered it. NBD, since I've got expose.
For the most part, the darn thing just works.
The single coolest thing I've found so far is the auto-brightness on the screen and keyboard. When I darken the room, the screen automatically dims, and the keyboard lights up. Beautiful. It's the first laptop I've ever seen that I can use in the dark. Totally awesome.
Alright, the ThinkPad has a light over the keyboard, but it must be turned on manually, and how am I to determine the keystroke in the dark?
Yeah, Macs really are that awesome.
Question for the Mac gurus. The delete key on a Mac functions like a backspace on a PC. Where is the equivalent of the PC's delete button?
posted by Wes at
12:45 AM
1 Comments:
After reading the manual that came with my Mac, I can can now answer my own question. To delete to the right of the cursor rather than the left (i.e. backspace), hold down the function key fn when hitting delete.
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