Early thoughts on a new Mac convert

My owner recently dipped a toe into the Mac world after thirty years of dos/Windows. He is very hard to please and has some pet hates such as unnecessary mouse travel (whereas I like mouse travel, as long as it is in my direction!) and poor use of screen real estate, and expressions like "screen real estate"!

So, he really doesn't like it that OS X uses up a whole bar at the top of the screen for a menu and assorted other icons, and he likes it even less that if a window is open in the lower right of the screen, he has to navigate his mouse all the way to the top left to access any of the menus! I think he has a point, especially as screens get wider and wider!

On the other hand, he really does like that his OS X runs on a Macbook Air and they are so much nicer than the 17" luggable Windows laptop that he used for the past couple of years, although even that is lightweight compared to the Compaq "suitcase" from the eighties (do you remember that? I certainly don't)! 

And he really likes Divvy, enabling him to resize windows in many flexible ways at the drop of a keystroke - even better than the built-in Windows 7 left/right/max alternative, and a huge time saver. Just think how much of your life you have spent over the years simply resizing windows!

So although he can be a bit grumpy at times, he's actually quite pleased with his initial experiences of OS X and the Mac (Air) world.