Yes you would use itunes but its different than the windows experience with it and works well.
Yes you would be able to use flash drives and USB. Yes there are pod cast to learn and listen to. Tech doctor pod cast does a comparison between windows and mac. Serotalk pod cast is an excellent resource for technology. Triple click home is also an excellent info pod cast for apple technology. apple vis has a good pod cast with tutorials and guides on their site. Apple and other technology from vision Australia has excellent demos and info. Apple has great tech support. You might consider purchasing apple care. It depends on what your needs are for a computer on which mac product you would purchase. Hope some of this helps. Laura Ann On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Melissa Tucker wrote: > I have several questions about the mac because my desktop and laptop is no > longer working properly. The are both several years old and I want to get a > good replacement. Do you have to put your music and audio on the mac through > itunes like you do with the iphone&ipad? That's really the only thing I > don't like about the i-devices. Are there any podcasts for beginners using > the mac, a q&a type thing? Will I be able to hook up usb devices to the mac > such as flash drives, usb hard drives, and such? > I'm on skype as kc4haf if anyone wants to add me to discuss some of this. > I'm thinking about getting one of the refurbished laptops withmac from apple. > thanks for any thoughts on this. > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Carol, >> >> Well I use a Mac for nearly everything. THe only time I use WIndows is on a >> VM at work and mainly because I need to ensure 100% compatibility for >> Microsoft Word. If Microsoft would get its thumb out and make the Office >> suite accessible I might not need Windows at all. >> However, with that said I consider myself to be very efficient using the >> Mac, but then I also have a good number of years experience. Therefore, if >> you are willing to accept that there will be a learning curve and you are >> prepared to put the time in, then you will do just fine. Remember the effort >> it took to master the world of iOS. :) >> THe best thing is you can always have both with the Mac. You can run the Mac >> and WIndows for things that you really cannot live without. Hey you can even >> run Linux on that VM if yo like. :) >> >> On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Carol Pearson wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The time is coming now to replace my current desktop and I'm thinking about >>> a Mac. >>> >>> Seriously, though, can you really work as quickly when it comes to editing >>> docs? >>> >>> What is out there that will work for database and word processing that will >>> give you the full functionality you expect? >>> >>> Carol P >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
