The 24" monitor is fantastic, but it displays web pages more like a tablet (taller and narrower), not the "landscape" mode I'm used to (width exceeds height).
I do a lot of Photoshop work and have just upgraded to CS4 and Lightroom, but I can't install it on the pc because it's on dvd which I didn't realize when I bought it. I can't install it on the imac because it's for Windows.
The monitor is landscape. All you have to do is take the lower right hand corner of the web browser and drag it to whatever width you wish.
Why'd you buy a 24" iMac and then get CS4 for Windows?
Fusion lets you set the amount of RAM the Virtual Machine uses. Chances are only 512MB is allocated. You can change that in prefs, but it involves shutting down and restarting -- not just hibernating -- the virtual machine.
The monitor is landscape. All you have to do is take the lower right hand corner of the web browser and drag it to whatever width you wish.
There is a basic philosophical difference between how the Mac and Windows display windows. The Mac's "maximize" button makes the window as big as it needs to be to fit all its contents; there is no "take up the whole window" button like on Windows. To me, the Mac approach makes a lot more sense. I want to see all 800 pixels of the Web page's width; I don't need a button to fill the screen with another 1000 px of wasted white space.
If you want the page to fill the screen width, use command-+ to zoom in until it's the size you want.
Why'd you buy a 24" iMac and then get CS4 for Windows?
Fun fact: If you have Adobe software for Windows, you can "crossgrade" to Mac for the upgrade price. I suppose they offer it the other way, but that doesn't come up that often.