On 23/2/03 10:29 am, "David Townend" wrote: > I know, I'm very late into this one... Just bought a Mac 867DP with > OS10.2... Needless to say I have lots of questions, and I appreciate they > are not all to do with Digital Imaging. Therefore, please can someone direct > me to a group that works in a similar vein to Prodig where my questions > would be more in-line with topics discussed.
Buy yourself, OSX The Missing Manual http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxmm2/ Available at most major (on-line) bookshops :-) Great book, will help in the early stages of learning. But after 6 months, you probably will not need to look at it again. > As an aside - I'm dumb-founded by the look of OSX. It looks like something > AOL asked Apple to build for 4th grade puppy school... I can't believe I'm > going to have to work with this visual absurdity and file system rigidity > from now on. Must be a personal thing (someone else made this comment once, about the look of X). Personally, I think its beautiful (and I'm not still at school). If I have to look at OS9 now, it looks like something someone used in the 1980's. OSX's interface and design is far more cool. Once you get used to how OSX thinks, you'll get along just fine. I had the same worries, about putting files where I wanted etc. But the reality is, that you can. Sure it doesn't like it if you store your documents in the System Folder - Hey but if you did, WHY DID YOU? I recently had to look at someone's mac, and it was in a typical incredible mess. Documents all over the place. Lots of them on the desktop. Aliases of programs, littered everywhere. A computer should be like a library. Things filed, so that they can be found when you need them. OSX merely expects you to do this, its not asking you to do anything that wouldn't be normal good computer behaviour. If you really want the Freedom to throw things where you want. Simply set yourself up another partition, and stuff all your documents etc. onto it. > All this to avoid a few restarts and a bit of multitasking/threading ! > Give me a break ! PC's never looked so good. Beauty is certainly in the Eye of the Beholder. Even though Windows XP looks a million times better than anything previous, in the Windows world. It is still SOOOOOOOO far behind in the beauty stakes. If you can't appreciate the look of OSX, well, there's no hope for you :-( Regards Paul PS - Feel free to mail me off-list, about any help you need with OSX. I can't promise a fast response, but I'll do my best to help. Unfortunately I don't know any discussion groups out there (though I'm, sure there are lots). Personally, I think if you get the recommended book, you won't need them. OSX has a very quick steep learning curve, but then levels out to a beautiful world of crash free computing. -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
