PC + Mac conflict
I'm strictly a Windows PC kind of guy. My girlfriend has a Macbook Air - of which she is very proud.

When I'm at her place trying to use it, I feel like a complete spaz, as despite working in IT, I struggle to get to grips with the bloody thing. The lady is always taking the piss that I'm an IT bod who can't even operate a fecking laptop.

Honestly, the fun never ends.

Anyway, last night I was surfing using Safari. I wanted to open a 2nd Safari session so I just went to File/Open New Tab - just as you would in Internet Explorer. The lady was sat next to me at the time and was completely gob-smacked by my skilz. Apparently she didn't know about that function, and had previously always just opened a completely new Safari window.

Just for a brief flickering moment my IT bod credentials had been restored - until I spaz out next time.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:22, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I have this problem
one of the colleges I teach photography in has macs, and I'm only there for 2 hours a week. It is proper embarrassing asking students how to do something easy on the computer
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:25, Reply)

Indeedy
That 'Finder' thing on the Mac is complete pish compared to Windows Explorer.

What the Mac needs is a big icon in the middle of the screen labelled 'Just operate like a fucking normal PC'.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:29, Reply)

this this this!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:30, Reply)

They could call it iPC
but it would be made of platinum, cost 40 gazillion pounds, and have folk queueing round the block for it.

Oh aye - and it wouldn't work.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Or you need to just learn
They're dead easy to pick up, and Finder is perfectly fine. Spotlight is infinitely superior to the Windows search function.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:32, Reply)

Yes it is dead easy to pick up....
...as my girlfriend continues to remind me, it's cast from a single piece of aluminium, hence very light. ;-)

However, it makes me feel like a mong when I'm using it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:35, Reply)

It is frustrating at first
but you get used to it. I have found that I use keyboard shortcuts way more when using Mac than I did when I used Windows based PCs. Also, remember that you can 'right-click' on things by doing ctrl-click.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Ah!
Didn't know the right click thing. Cheers!
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:57, Reply)

You can also use
A two button mouse
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:00, Reply)

It's the lady's Mac and she doesn't appear to possess a mouse.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)