Thread: Upgrading a Mac Powerbook G4

Originally Posted by p38arover

I assume "space" measns the space bar.

I pressed the magnifying glass and it opened up a little blue window thing called spotlight but it was empty - it expects and entry to be typed in.

Yep, you should try it. You can type in anything... and it will generally pull up a link to it. Email, applications, docments, internet history...and so on. On my version it even pulls up dictionary and thesaurus entries.

So, I just keep the apps I use regularly in the dock. When I want something out of the norm I just hit apple-space and type the name of it in. E.g terminal, google earth. It's far quicker than searching for it in a multitude of folders.

The trouble is I don't know ANYTHING about Macs so I have no idea what I'm pressing or why.

Originally Posted by p38arover

The trouble is I don't know ANYTHING about Macs so I have no idea what I'm pressing or why.

If you were in Brisbane I could spend hour with you and you'd be away.

When I got a mac in 06 I had about 2 nights of thinking "what have I done". I had no help as at that point I was the only person I knew with one. After introducing probably half a dozen people to them now I'm getting good at showing people the key differences.

It's great... spend a couple of hours with them and they go away and never bother me for support again! Contrast this to the days a year I had to spend re-building family windows computers.

Ron, Google is your friend as are the Mac support sites. I'm new to Mac too. Bought one in May and I hadn't used a Mac since 1985. They've changed a little since then Anyway I'm also rusty on unix but so far I've found everything OK.


Now if it was a real OS like VMS...