can you explain further about the differences?
It’s a thousand little things that make the transition tough. And I’m not saying that each one of these isn’t a fine way of doing stuff; it’s just different from a PC, and takes time getting used to.
Each application doesn’t have it’s own menu bar in its own window; there’s one menu bar across the top, and it corresponds to whichever application has “focus.”
There’s no start menu; instead you use a program called which works sorta like Explorer. There’s a row of icons along the bottom for commonly used applications, called a “dock,” but I still have programs decide to just remove themselves from the dock when I close them, no matter how many times I click, “always show in dock;” there is no desktop icon in the dock to get to a blank icon.
A lot of apps don’t tell you something went wrong. They just don’t do anything. And they don’t tell you they’re not going to anything, or in the process of doing something. They just leave you wondering whether they’re going to get it done or not.
The keyboard is different, and you’ll have to retrain your hands for all the key-combination commands.
Some very primitive Microsoft Applications are useful precisely because they do nothing other than whatever very simple function you want for them. Apple no print screen; no MS Draw; no Notepad (you can download Text Wrangler).
iWork sucks. You’ll need to get MS Office, anyway. (To save money, you can get Open Office, but surprisingly it works better on Windows.) But even MS Office on Mac is different than MS Office on Windows.
There are some very handy utilities, but configuring your computer (desktop, screen resolution, etc.) is thoroughly different. (You have to pick System Preferences from the apple logo in the upper left corner.)
And I was totally surprised by the lack of software. You’re probably not into video games?