MBP ordered from portable one

So I finally put the order in. Hopefully I'll get a free upgrade to leopard.

2.40GHz / 15.4" matte / 4GB / 160GB 7200RPM / 3 yr ext warranty

Portable one's prices were significantly better than direct from apple so I choose to use them.

Thanks to all the help and advice I've received from the people here. Now the waiting begins (they're telling me two weeks min).

 

Congrats on making the purchase, djwishbone . Keep us posted on how it goes!

And while you're waiting for it to arrive, I suggest you read more about OS X and setting up your Mac when it arrives. These two guides I always recommend to all switchers:

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101

 

Congrats on the purchase? +1 to the guides posted by Sam, they are very informative.

Getting a new Mac is a very exciting time, have fun!

 

Thanks for the links! I'm not entirely new to mac or mac os X, but it's never been something I've considered before for one of my main machines. I will give OS X an honest month or two before I decide to move back to ubuntu/windows.

Random question. What's up with the close button in MAC OS .. well mac OS any version? Sometimes it closes, sometimes it minimizes, why this random behavior? Is there a good tweak to make this a bit more consistant? Say if I wanted it to exit the application (ie close all running processes) every time I closed it? I know this is a very "windows" question. Do mac users just not worry about that kind of thing and let all running programs just continue to build up? So far it's been one of the most annoying pieces of using mac OS ? for me, but I'm sure there's some tweak out there to make it do what I want.

 

Well, the "X" button on any OS X window closes the window, but not the application. It doesn't minimize unless you press the "-" button.

The easiest way to get around this is to press Command + Q everytime you want to quit an application. This quits the application (which automatically closes all open windows of that application).

Similarly, Command + W closes the open window, so if say you open a Safari window and you want to close it but not Safari altogether, you can do this. Also, if you want to hide a window but not have it show up in the Dock, press Command + H.

 

Right, I understand that, but I guess I was just curious if there was a way to make "x" actually close the application. It's just a default assumption I've never particularly cared for. At least force it to close the application if no other windows of that application are open. Why waste the resources just in the chance that you might open that application again in the same session? I've always found myself going through and closing all the running applications in a painful manual way when I want to make sure my system is performing to the best of it's ability. Maybe this is a feature I'll appreciate after I use more often.