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.
Why'd you buy a 24" iMac and then get CS4 for Windows?
Because I wanted to load it on my pc first because transferring all my photos and graphics files is going to be a humongous task, and I use it sometimes several times a day. The geek squad guy got both of my computers online with a router but could not get the two computers to talk to each other (network, won't work for some reason). That cost me, too. So whatever files I transfer, I'll have to use my 3 Passports which will be slow but should work.
I know Adobe will allow me to switch to CS4 for the mac at no charge, just that I have to agree to remove it from my pc even though I'm the only one using both machines. It's kind of ironic because when I installed CS2 (and I waited for years to be able to afford it and got a super good deal by upgrading from a discount offer I got with my Wacom tablet), I remember that I was allowed to install a copy on my pc and laptop (don't have a laptop). Plus I bought it for my granddaughter, too, because she is a budding artist and photographer. I didn't want to cheat and bought us both legal copies. Hers I got as a cheap upgrade from Elements that came with my camera. $299 each compared to $500-600, whatever it is now each, no school or teacher discounts for me.
I'm not one to jump on every latest and greatest but I can't read the new .dng or .CR2 files from my granddaughter's camera. I hope to upgrade my 20D at some point. The .CR2 files are different for the 20D and 40D and Adobe Camera Raw free download only supports it for CS3, not CS2. I think it's built into CS4 now.