Mac convert here

Hey all, DOS/Windows user for 25 years here. My wife's Gateway desktop died, so we went looking for a replacement and bought a 21" iMac. It was so nice I bought myself a new MBP the next week which I'm typing this on. We were due for computer upgrades anyway, might as well see how the other 10% live. I still have my Thinkpad W500 which pays the bills, also a very nice piece of hardware. Just saying hello and thanks for the all the tips here as we switch to a new OS. These are very nice machines.

 

Very nice machines indeed. I made the switch 3 years ago and haven't looked back. I have to use Windows for work still, but luckily my company provides the Thinkpad.

It's been a while since I've been around these parts, but hopefully they're still just as helpful as they always were.

 

welcome ... I have found most people who like lenovos tend to like apples as well ... I have a macbook pro that hasnt been restarted in 35 days ..its a good feeling

 

i just switched to the mba as well from a thinkpad. I find it hard to get used to the keyboard on this; my typing speed definitely has gone down by 70%.

and the 'command', 'control' and 'option' buttons needs more time to get used to since i use keyboard shortcuts a lot. But I'm loving the backlit keyboard compared to the thinklight.

Everytime I type on this mac keyboard I feel like pressing space bar twice and expect a full stop and a space after it.

 

How does the Command and Control and Option buttons being different from a Windows keyboard slow down your typing speed? Let alone by 70%? Come on.
Those aren't normal everyday typing keys. If one can truly touch type then most any computer keyboard will suffice. It's just like driving different stick shifts in cars, it should take less than 5 minutes to get used to.

 

I had to get used to Command, Control and Option too. Mainly cause I use "find" often, and kept forgetting which one +F I had to use. I know it's command now but sometimes my Windows state of mind still presses option as the more logical choice.

 

If your using the terminal a lot it would slow you down if you were programming in emacs and were using all of the short cuts.

Not a huge deal but when I first got a mac I definitely had some trouble with it, I still have problems with it in SC2 when I'm trying to make a control group in like 0.5 seconds.

 

LOL, nice try. The guy I was responding to said he just switched to a Mac from using a Thinkpad. I highly doubt he was referring to using the Terminal, especially since he didn't mention it. Using Terminal is completely different animal. I'm talking about normal typing. Having to get used to Control and Command shouldn't slow down anyone's actual typing speed. Standard typing is the same on all keyboards per country.

 

Yes I use the terminal a lot more often than word processing or email. I don't just encode data; I select, access command history and modify commands in bash scripts. Also reply and post in forums such as this.

Its also partly due to my palms being up in the air when typing on the mac's keyboard so that I don't touch the trackpad. Or maybe its because I'm still in the honeymoon stage with this laptop...

I did say "i just switched" and I failed to stress out that it meant "one day".

I don't touch type fully; it just years of experience in typing that I got this idea in my head on where all the alphabets are located and i just use 1-2 fingers on each hand with the occasional pinky.

 

I see now, but the trackpad won't be affected by your palms touching it. That may happen on Windows machines but not Apple's trackpad. That's partly why the trackpad on Macs has always been dead set in the middle and not off center to the left like most PC laptops. Some newer PC's have more modern Mac-like trackpads.