Just playing with my free 27" iMac

Probably, but you need to break that muscle memory. If you try and make OSX like Windows, you are going to have a bad time.
I ended up going 100% OSX to break the muscle memory (it was the only machine I had with me anyway when I lived in Japan)

Things seem really stupid at first, because its not Windows. But after a while things start to make sense, you get into the right mindset and understand why they did things like that, and in some cases find that Windows was the stupid one.

Apples require a massive mindset pivot, they are fantastic work machines designed to streamline work and eliminate distractions.

IMO from a technician perspective OSX is definitely worth learning as there is a ton of easy Mac work available. Most techs couldn't get over their Apple hate which meant more work for me.
 
Bryce W said:
Probably, but you need to break that muscle memory. If you try and make OSX like Windows, you are going to have a bad time.
I ended up going 100% OSX to break the muscle memory (it was the only machine I had with me anyway when I lived in Japan)

Things seem really stupid at first, because its not Windows. But after a while things start to make sense, you get into the right mindset and understand why they did things like that, and in some cases find that Windows was the stupid one.

Apples require a massive mindset pivot, they are fantastic work machines designed to streamline work and eliminate distractions.

IMO from a technician perspective OSX is definitely worth learning as there is a ton of easy Mac work available. Most techs couldn't get over their Apple hate which meant more work for me.
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Thanks Bryce. Good points.
Not really trying to make it look like Windoze though, lol
The reason I asked was because being such a large screen and it seems that most "mousing" occurs on the right half of the screen. Well to me it seems that way. Then when closing, minimising, maximising windows (or should I say "Apples," tehe!) I seem to have to roll the mouse all the way over to the left! Maybe just my pedant-ism?
I did get used to it in Linux (on the left side) until I changed distro, and chose a different "theme."
I'm fast getting over my "Apple Hate" as you put it! The more I use it the more I like it!
IMHO still not a patch on Linux! (Now, I’ll sit back and wait for the "hate mail," lol)
I'm getting more and more "Mac's" coming through, especially with malware, so would like to be proficient in diagnosing/repairing them. :)
 
I've just put bootcamp win10 on my 27" iMac. Was finding I was spending most of my time in Remote Desktop, to a win10 VM, in OS X anyway so now get much better performance.
Still have a MacBook Pro that is used for OS X.

I've also attached a 2nd screen to the iMac so I can keep outlook open on there as I use emails all the time.
 
I was just reading about CrossOver is it any good it says no Windows license needed
is it something like WINE

I will be inheriting a 24 IMac soon will give it a try
 
I was with a Mac clients yesterday she has used Macs forever

I had a few bad nights sleep and It was embarrassing when I was trying to close things down from the wrong side

And trying to find renaming on the tools menu and no easy right click also all those keys

Command key, option key, control key I get them mixed up argh.

She was telling me things and I’m supposed to be the tech.
Despite that she was very impressed with my skills asking me the usual dumb question I always get asked where did I learn all this.

You could never get away with that with Windows they would show you the door.


I went into a huge Starbucks yesterday and just about everybody had a Mac

I don’t know what it is about coffee shops every customer has a computer and they sit there like Zombies all day with one coffee, I think maybe they have no internet at home.

So there’s going to be a huge demand and like Bryce says it’s much easier and you’re dealing with a completely different class of clients that don’t mind spending money.
I have done macs for a long time but don’t do enough to be proficient
 
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As Bryce said, technically it probably can be done. Finder is just a
johnrobert said:
I was just reading about CrossOver is it any good it says no Windows license needed
is it something like WINE

I will be inheriting a 24 IMac soon will give it a try
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CrossOver has been around for many years and is basically WINE. I think that back in the beginning someone started CrossOver using WINE as the code base but shortly there after the projects merged to have a commercial offering and a OSS offering under one roof, much like FreeNAS and ownCloud.

The catch to that whole scenario is they basically create a thin layer VM emulator that can process all the files that come with a app. Many years ago I seem to remember that there was some noise about misappropriating M$ DLL's but that has apparently been solved. I just don't know if app OEM's have any specific blurbs about running on top of a M$ OS only.

When I tried it years ago it did work very well to get Office for Windows running on Linux/OS X. But that is the only app I tried.
 
I remember when Corel were developing Wine and it nearly put then out of business they could get nearly everything to work except M$ Office

Because of all the integration so if Office worked then that’s a good sign
 
Markverhyden said:
I've never understood the appeal of BC. If I need something on the Mac side I have to reboot and the same if I want something on the Windows side.
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If you use something like Parallels for Mac you can load your Windows BOOTCAMP partition inside a virtual machine.

So, if you need full, non-VM'd Windows you reboot and bootcamp into Windows and its just like any other Windows laptop. If VM is ok or you only need a single file you can load that same bootcamp partition in the VM. Its really neat and has many features to make it super seamless. You can even load Windows apps in OSX without it appearing that you even loaded Windows at all.

I BELEIVE you can also move files between the two if you set it up so that it mounts the Windows drive in OSX and the OSX drive in Windows. Its really neat.
 
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johnrobert said:
I was with a Mac clients yesterday she has used Macs forever

I had a few bad nights sleep and It was embarrassing when I was trying to close things down from the wrong side

And trying to find renaming on the tools menu and no easy right click also all those keys

Command key, option key, control key I get them mixed up argh.

She was telling me things and I’m supposed to be the tech.
Despite that she was very impressed with my skills asking me the usual dumb question I always get asked where did I learn all this.

You could never get away with that with Windows they would show you the door.


I went into a huge Starbucks yesterday and just about everybody had a Mac

I don’t know what it is about coffee shops every customer has a computer and they sit there like Zombies all day with one coffee, I think maybe they have no internet at home.

So there’s going to be a huge demand and like Bryce says it’s much easier and you’re dealing with a completely different class of clients that don’t mind spending money.
I have done macs for a long time but don’t do enough to be proficient
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I switch from using Windows and Mac all the time. My accuracy with using the correct copy and paste shortcuts with either on first try is very poor. Using a Mac and RDPing into a Windows computer is even worse. It probably doesn't help that I'm using a Microsoft keyboard with my iMac.

It was probably 3 months after I had started working as a Mac tech before I learned about the 2 finger click (it's amazing what you learn from actually going though the how to on a new machine) and it was only after I had been working as as Mac tech before I learned about just pressing enter to rename a file.


I've seen the Parallels + Bootcamp setup once, very slick.
 
Hey guys, I been driving myself crazy learning "Mac" but am stuck on a couple of things.
I took the advice on this thread and removed the "old" clients account and setup a new one for me only.
Installed Office for Mac but it doesn't have the same functionality as the Windows version especially the "ribbon."
I'll work that out though.
Problem two is a very simple thing. I want to create a new Text file in a folder. I have no idea how to do this.
Windows is simply a right click --> new --> text file.
On the Mac all I get is new folder?
TIA
 
Barcelona said:
Hey guys, I been driving myself crazy learning "Mac" but am stuck on a couple of things.
I took the advice on this thread and removed the "old" clients account and setup a new one for me only.
Installed Office for Mac but it doesn't have the same functionality as the Windows version especially the "ribbon."
I'll work that out though.
Problem two is a very simple thing. I want to create a new Text file in a folder. I have no idea how to do this.
Windows is simply a right click --> new --> text file.
On the Mac all I get is new folder?
TIA
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Code: 
touch file.txt
 
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