<p>1) I hate how the windows don't automatically fill the screen... A lot of times, when I open firefox or Microsoft Word on Macs, it only fills up half the space. What's more, if you try to expan the window futher, you can't hide all of the desktop, which is something that can distract me when working on something</p>
<p>2) It is hard to use two windows of different programs simultaneously. For example, when I am using windows, I can easily switch back and forth between word processor and internet, while for macs, it takes more effort.</p>
<p>3) you can't keep a lot of programs minimized at the bottom "dock" (or whatever you call it in macs)... When I use windows, when I minimize a lot of windows, it automatically shuffles into it's different programs, and will often use one window with a number in it to indicate the quantity if the quantities are large. With macs, it can't do that and is harder to figure out because it isn't arranged like that and it is hard to read the text when it is minimized at the "dock"...</p>
This doesn’t happen on my mac. My windows automatically fill the whole screen and I don’t see any of the desktop.</p>
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Pressing F9 allows you to toggle in between all open windows (windows that have not been minimized). Pressing F10 allows you to toggle between open windows in the same program (if you have 2 Word documents open, but not minimized, for example).</p>
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You can rearrange the order in which things are minimized and hopefully not minimizing anything and just using F9 and F10 above will help with your problem.</p>
Well, yes. It’s something that a lot of OS X users get used to. If you really need to cover the entire screen though, you’ll need to drag, not just click the + button.</p>
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hotpiece’s method works, but the alt-tab equivalent also works. If you use command-tab, you can switch between programs.</p>
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3) you can’t keep a lot of programs minimized at the bottom “dock” (or whatever you call it in macs)… When I use windows, when I minimize a lot of windows, it automatically shuffles into it’s different programs, and will often use one window with a number in it to indicate the quantity if the quantities are large. With macs, it can’t do that and is harder to figure out because it isn’t arranged like that and it is hard to read the text when it is minimized at the “dock”…
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hotpiece’s answer again, or command-H hides everything until you’re ready to deal with it again..</p>
<p>well I don’t know about you, but I think this is one of the worst features in XP’s interface (and there’s a lot of bad features :)). it’s really annoying, especially when you have a lot of browser windows open, and you can’t change the settings on a public computer or install Firefox to use tabs…</p>
<p>one- use several programs at once, internet, word, apple, and photoshop om my Mac and toggle between them all, its a piece of cake</p>
<p>two- if your packground is distracting, clean it up, I love that I can have different sized open screens I can stagger to go back and forth between, especailly for cut and pasting</p>
<p>lets see how difficult</p>
<p>I am back from Word, and wait, okay, done with excel, and hold on, let me get that apple file</p>
<p>i think you may find that a lot of laptops, Apple or not, only have 2 or 3 USB ports just because they are laptops (so there isn’t much room to put too many more USB ports)…</p>
<p>how many of the laptops with 6 USB ports would you actually buy though…</p>
<p>most laptops now have 3+ ports though, so only having 2 is a bit of a disappointment. it isn’t such a big deal though…get a cooler that you would need anyway for an MBP and you can get up to 4 more ports, or buy a usb hub with (usually) 4 extra ports. you probably won’t be lugging around more one USB device (if any) when the computer isn’t at your desk, so having to use a hub really isn’t much of an inconvenience.</p>
<p>I also dislike how macs are lacking in support for a lot of software that you may want to use (like special architecture or similar programs only for windows)… It’s also a pain that most of hte software at best buy or similar stores (like roxio, pinnacle, nero, etc) is only for PC…</p>
<p>Hey bob, have you ever been to an Apple Store?
And almost every program has a Mac equivalent except some niche programs.
Plus there is a whole lot out in the form of freeware.</p>