I am about to stab this Mac repetedly
Ok all. I don't remember if I gave you lovely folks this update, so I am giving it to you again.
My boss decided that I should have a Mac Desktop computer to do product testing. Great idea on his part in all respects. For a company, you want to be able to bring your product to a wide variety of customers. Especially since we work with schools for our products.
So, right now I am fiddling with this Mac. I have an OS X, but I need the latest version of Safari for my job. Of course, Apple has to make this as confusing for me as possible. I go to the Apple download page and it asks me if I want Safari for Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. So I logically say to myself, "Ok, I will go to my About This Mac and see if I have Snow Leopard, Leopard or Tiger". But of course Apple, you never steer me wrong about being non-customer friendly. The only thing it tells me is that it is an OS X. But then again, this is a refurbished computer (not my money, so I am not going to argue it).
So, the next logical step at this point is to update my computer software. So, I click something about Updates. After about half an hour, it says that I need to install 4 updates. So I got them all. No word of a lie, it took me at least half an hour just to download the updates. It says I need to restart my computer. I tell it not now so it decides that it is never going to install anything until I hit restart. So, I select the two most important updates and now I am sitting here waiting for these to install. I have been here since 8:00 am and it is 8:11 am. It is not even half way on the installer yet.
Now, coming from someone who solely used a Windows system since Windows 95, a Mac is like having a computer that is only displaying Japanese. Though, after a few minutes I figured some basic things out. Some much quicker than others.
The red circle is the X button. That is how you close windows. This surprisingly took me the longest to figure out. The yellow button is the minimize button, and I still don't know what the green button does. Though, the first thing I easily figured out is that the icons on the bottom of the screen were the important programs that you can easily open with a double click. I found the system preferences very easily which is actually a plus that the Mac has over Windows. With Windows you have to go on a 3 day man hunt in Windows 7 to find where you want to go into the control panel even if you are like me and are used to having to go to the control panel.
After trial and error, I also figured out where the Menu items are located for a window. They are always, without fail, at the top of the screen. Even if the Window is down all the way at the bottom, the file menu will always be at the top and will only show the menu for the dominate window at the time. So if you have Safari open and System preference for example, since System Preference is on top the file menu will only be for System preferences. Once you click anywhere in Safari, that becomes the dominant window and the Menu bar will be for Safari.
8:20 am and it is still on half way. Thankfully I am getting paid to sit her and fiddle around with this Mac to get it ready for product testing. I might go into the other room and get my laptop in a little bit so that way I am not bored. Oh, if you are wondering where I am updating from I am on the Windows XP machine that we have over here. I think finally my Mac is done the installs. Talk to you guys later.
My boss decided that I should have a Mac Desktop computer to do product testing. Great idea on his part in all respects. For a company, you want to be able to bring your product to a wide variety of customers. Especially since we work with schools for our products.
So, right now I am fiddling with this Mac. I have an OS X, but I need the latest version of Safari for my job. Of course, Apple has to make this as confusing for me as possible. I go to the Apple download page and it asks me if I want Safari for Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. So I logically say to myself, "Ok, I will go to my About This Mac and see if I have Snow Leopard, Leopard or Tiger". But of course Apple, you never steer me wrong about being non-customer friendly. The only thing it tells me is that it is an OS X. But then again, this is a refurbished computer (not my money, so I am not going to argue it).
So, the next logical step at this point is to update my computer software. So, I click something about Updates. After about half an hour, it says that I need to install 4 updates. So I got them all. No word of a lie, it took me at least half an hour just to download the updates. It says I need to restart my computer. I tell it not now so it decides that it is never going to install anything until I hit restart. So, I select the two most important updates and now I am sitting here waiting for these to install. I have been here since 8:00 am and it is 8:11 am. It is not even half way on the installer yet.
Now, coming from someone who solely used a Windows system since Windows 95, a Mac is like having a computer that is only displaying Japanese. Though, after a few minutes I figured some basic things out. Some much quicker than others.
The red circle is the X button. That is how you close windows. This surprisingly took me the longest to figure out. The yellow button is the minimize button, and I still don't know what the green button does. Though, the first thing I easily figured out is that the icons on the bottom of the screen were the important programs that you can easily open with a double click. I found the system preferences very easily which is actually a plus that the Mac has over Windows. With Windows you have to go on a 3 day man hunt in Windows 7 to find where you want to go into the control panel even if you are like me and are used to having to go to the control panel.
After trial and error, I also figured out where the Menu items are located for a window. They are always, without fail, at the top of the screen. Even if the Window is down all the way at the bottom, the file menu will always be at the top and will only show the menu for the dominate window at the time. So if you have Safari open and System preference for example, since System Preference is on top the file menu will only be for System preferences. Once you click anywhere in Safari, that becomes the dominant window and the Menu bar will be for Safari.
8:20 am and it is still on half way. Thankfully I am getting paid to sit her and fiddle around with this Mac to get it ready for product testing. I might go into the other room and get my laptop in a little bit so that way I am not bored. Oh, if you are wondering where I am updating from I am on the Windows XP machine that we have over here. I think finally my Mac is done the installs. Talk to you guys later.