couple of questions

I posted this on one of my older forums but it seems no one's reading it anymore. So here's a new thread. Re: my switch to macbook

1) Where the hell are the speakers?
2) i need something that can run msn, very much like the Adium, but also have the option for video chats. aMsn i haven't tried, as the last update was in 2005 so doesn't appear like a really good program. Anything else?
3) I'm trying to make sense of the hard drive. In PC, there's my computer, in which you find your main drive, and everything is in the main drive (unless there is a partition). What about on mac? I can't figure it out.
4) I asked this somewhere else as well but just to be sure, i'll ask again: is it good to let my macbook sleep at nights instead of shutting it down?
5) I just transfered some songs from my pc to my mac, and i'm trying to play them on itunes but i can't. Every song that I try to play it just pauses at the beginning. I press play and pause and play and pause and nothing happens. It just sits there at the very beginning of the song.
6) When I'm trying to watch a clip on youtube, it plays for a second they gets stuch, kinda like itunes, with the exception that itunes just gets stuck at the very first.
Thanks

 

On either side of the keyboard.

I have no idea!

Use your finder(blue smiley in your dock). On the left is where you find everything. Everything is still on the drive, apple just found an easier way to order things. Trust me, it's easier, just takes some getting used to.

Either or. It wont hurt to shut it down, just as it wont hurt to let it sleep. I think I remember seeing somewhere that a macbook would last over a year in sleep on a full battery. A friend of mine that was integral in my decision to switch noted an time when his battery had 9 minutes left, so he closed it and put it to sleep and forgot to plug it in. The next day he went on a 2 week vacation. When he got back and opened the computer up it still had 9 minutes left.

Make sure that you've imported them to your library. I don't like iTunes that much, so somebody else will probably be able to help you here.

 

2) Mercury Messenger

 

Be sure that the songs you are trying to play are not in .wma format. If you ripped them with Windows Media Player, they likely are.

 

no the itunes issue was fixed after I restarted the laptop :s
Now I have to worry about my HP Laserjet 1018, which apparently doesn't work on a mac :S:S:S:S:S:S

 

The speakers are not on either side of the keyboard; that's the Macbook Pro. He has the Macbook non-pro. If you close the lid of the laptop and turn your laptop around, you'll see some vents where the sound comes out. When you open the lid of the laptop, the sound bounces off the screen and goes towards the user.

Have you tried MSN Messenger for Mac?

The equivalent of Windows Explorer on the Mac is Finder, the first icon in your dock. You can also double click the Mac HD on your desktop to access Finder.

It's fine to leave your computer in standby rather than shutting it down, but if you're not going to use it for an extended amount of time, it's better to shut it down.

 

OS X makes it very easy to install a printer. It should automatically install the printer drivers for you as soon as you plug in the USB cable. In case it doesn't, look on HP's website for the correct drivers.

 

OS X does not recognize the printer, and HP doesn't have the OS X driver for it I've made another post about this on the Apple forum.