Mossberg’s tips for switchers
More and more people are switching to the Mac these days. I, myself, am a “Windows refugee” who came over to the Mac camp in 2006. I am very happy with my decision to do so, as the Mac is so much more intuitive, easy to use, and secure than Windows.
The learning curve is certainly minimal, especially for tech savvy folks. In fact, I’ve found that the most common problem switchers have is that they overthink the issue—generally, solving problems and performing everyday tasks on the Mac is far more intuitive than the average Windows user is used to.
For those of you who are thinking of making the switch, Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal has put together a nice “switcher’s guide” on his All Things Digital blog. You’ll probably find that switching to the Mac is a lot easier than you may have thought.
Via [All Things Digital]
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I am convinced there is a gap in the market for both existing Mac users and switchers. Particularly so for those of a financial inclination. Apple have quietly dropped the number pad from the MacBook range (not that I was ever a fan of switching between numbers and letters on the small keyboard anyway).
What is really missing is a separate number pad for MacBooks. The usual suspects (Logitech, Kensington, Targus & co) don’t make anything suitable (or at least not obviously so) - although some of the wired versions may work. If anyone could create a bluetooth number pad with the aesthetics to go with a MacBook I would bite their hand off (and trawling through various forums I suspect I am not alone).
If you could add a couple of user programable keys (perhaps to make up for some of the PC keyboard shortcuts that are missing in the Mac version of Excel - F2 / F4 anyone?!) it would sell like the iPhone (well almost!).
So come on someone…
If anyone can get me the contact details for whoever manufactures the Apple OEM keyboards I’d be grateful and do us all a favour by getting some manufactured under contract!
on September 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM - LINK