[Swordmaker]

Merry Christmas, Mac Ping List members. For those PC users who found a nifty new Mac under the Christmas tree this year, here is a handy set of hints to help make your switch from PC to Mac a bit easier.

Mac to PC switchers Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[DainBramage]

bump

[markomalley]

And, of course, there is always this possibility: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

;-)

Merry Christmas

[PreciousLiberty]

No Macs under the tree, but we bought two this last year to add to our 24” iMac. It’s great to have a better alternative to Windows!

I find the interface much cleaner and better suited to doing work. There’s a ton of software, and even the iMacs are darned snappy these days!

[tubebender]

"On Windows I used to... Safely remove hardware (such as external USB or Flash drives)

With the exception of external storage devices, you don't need to ‘safely remove hardware’ on a Mac. With external disks, just make sure you eject them – as for CDs and DVDs, except you don't use the eject key on the keyboard –before you unplug them."

I have a Canon A ??? and a Nikon D 80. The Canon has a way to eject but I don't know where the eject is for the Nikon and I always get the”THIS DEVICE WAS SHUT DOWN IMPROPERLY yada yada yada”. Give me a clue...

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump for reference.

[antiRepublicrat]

On Windows I used to - Have applications close automatically when I closed the last window

But really, why would you? This was a behavior I had to get used to on the Mac, and now gladly accept. They take up few active system resources because they get paged out, so why quit them under normal circumstances? It just means they'll open faster the next time you need them.

[I see my hands]

Swordmaker

Thanks for keeping this great list!

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Swordmaker

[ThomasThomas]

But for some people phone tech support is a large part of their social life.

[apocalypto]

ping for later

[gardengirl]

Hey, Swordmaker! Belated Merry Christmas!

Since we last talked, I got my Macbook Pro, @ the week before Thanksgiving. Thanks for all your help! Couldn’t be happier—unless I had more time to spend playing with it! The worst problem I’ve had is trying to scroll down at work by dragging two fingers across my desk—couldn’t figure out why the page wasn’t doing anything—until I remembered I wasn’t on my Mac at home. LOL

[Ronin]

I just opened and set up my new 20 Inch iMac less than an hour ago. The keyboard is strange, the mouse is stranger, so far I have managed to convince it I live in Tokyo and not Cupertino. That’s all I can report at this time.