Last week I attended a workshop in the Johnson Center, meeting half of my starlab workshop requirements for Comm361. This workshop was designed to help familiarize PC users with the Mac technology because it’s bleeping awesome.
Now, let me be clear. I’m writing this post from a Macbook. I’ve had this once-white now light-grunge laptop for about four years now, and I like to think I know how to use it. Spring break was rapidly approaching and was worried I wouldn’t be able to cram two workshops in during the hectic happenings of the final half of the semester, so I jumped at an opportunity to try to not fail the class.
While most of this workshop was a refresher for me, I did learn a few things:
- The obvious difference between Mac and PC is the operating system (currently Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 for Microsoft). But I didn’t know that Macs could run Windows. However, PC runs programs on .exe which cannot be interchanged between Mac and PC.
- PCs are very customizable. The most you can customize on your Mac is the display.
- Macs rock the drag and drop. PC ain’t got nothing on the drag and drop.
- The Mac apps Spaces and Hot Corners are awesome and PC doesn’t have anything close to them.
The rest of the workshop was pretty much about keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are the best way to work your way around your Mac, in my opinion.
