My thoughts on the Dell 2005 FPW (brief review) — #11
Its interesting how so many Mac lovers love to rag on Dell monitors (not that anyone here is, lets be clear on that ) but Dell do EXACTLY the same thing as Apple do, buy LCD Panel…
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My thoughts on the Dell 2005 FPW (brief review) — #10
Glad that you are happy with your purchase. I can tell you that portrait mode is awesome (from what I've experienced with my Samsung 191T hooked up to my PC desktop - not that I r…
My thoughts on the Dell 2005 FPW (brief review) — #9
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Originally posted by Gdog:
I can lower mine almost to the surface of my desk...how much lower do you want to go?!?
????
Mine is really really tall.
I'll …
My thoughts on the Dell 2005 FPW (brief review) — #8
I can lower mine almost to the surface of my desk...how much lower do you want to go?!?
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #22
Argh, not meaning to jump on your back, but pop-up tips, dialogs, etc. a la Windows XP is enough to drive anyone absolutely bonkers... 10.3 has a reasonably easy to understand Help…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #21
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Originally posted by hldan:
What sort of program is Route 66?
http://www.66.com/route66/index.php
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #20
Most likely you won't be eligible for a free* (*US$19.95 s/h fee) upgrade to Tiger. When they announced the last OS X upgrade (Panther) only people who bought systems on the day of…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #19
Thanks Discotronic for the expose instructions - now I am switching betwen apps faster than if I were using the Windows taskbar (or even virtual desktops.)
I went with the Apple P…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #18
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
Mini arrived last week (1.25GHz, 512 MB, 80GB, SuperDrive, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme with Apple Pro Wireless mouse and keyboa…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #17
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
Discotronic - did you mention setting up hotspots with 'Expose'? I think Expose really is a swish feature of the Mac (almos…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #16
"BTW - if Safari is so slow - why is it so lauded on the Mac? "
Well, if you're up to date on system updates, Safari is actually pretty snappy. It has some nice usability features…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #15
Thanks all for the corrections and advice in this thread.
I was getting ease of use mixed up with perfection - good point to make.
What I am reading here is that it seems to be …
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #14
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Originally posted by scottiB:
Route 66 is kind of goofy in its install. Mine (Route USA) left an alias (shortcut in Windows terminology) of it on my Desktop--it w…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #13
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
Installed route 66 - only to find that the icon wasn't put in the 'Applications' folder or the Dock. I can see many newer use…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #12
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
Thanks for the welcome Discotronic!
I agree with your statement that, in reality, any computer is challenging to use for t…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #11
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Originally posted by Pierre B.:
First you don't *need* to drag an application to the dock; you would do that for applications that you use frequently and you do w…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #10
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
I do not see how the current download options of dmg, pkg etc and manual dragging of an application icon to the dock is 'easie…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #9
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Originally posted by Pierre B.:
That's why you have the F10 key, when your browser application is the front-most. Just learn to use Expose. It is quite trivial to…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #8
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
The download manager does come up - but I feel that sometimes it may be obscured by other windows
That's why you have …
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #7
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
It seems that the G5 ships with the bluetooth assistant set for startup - it seems the mini does not ship expecting to pair w…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #6
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
PS As I'm typing this in safari, the Mac can barely keep up with my typing speed. I have a couple of other windows open and …
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #5
Re: your typing question. the answer on this board to stuff like that seems to lie with teh RAM? so...could be a ram thing. maybe not though. you have 512...have you noticed it slo…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #4
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Originally posted by Janaka Cooray:
PS As I'm typing this in safari, the Mac can barely keep up with my typing speed. I have a couple of other windows open and…
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #3
Thanks for the welcome Discotronic!
The link for the SafariSpeed app - user comments report that it isn't compatibile with the version of Safari that I have though (1.2.4). Also …
On the 'Mac Expereince' from long-time PC user... — #2
I never had a problem with my Apple wireless keyboard and mouse on my iMac G5. It was recognized without having to put a disk in. Hopefully Apple fixes this in the next update.
Th…