Always had a PC but now......

[SR45]

Good to know and thanks for the advise.

 

[kaibob]

SR45

That is excellent news. I'll go ahead and purchase a base model and then add memory later if needed. I'll be using a bluetooth keyboard and will be sure to have a USB keyboard on hand. My Microsoft USB mouse and Dell monitor should both work.

Thanks for the report; I'm most appreciative.

kaibob

 

[SR45]

Welcome kabob....

Now for the hard part in getting Microsoft out of my head and finding things on this Apple. Wish this OS had a "Notepad" application or "WordPad" so I would not have to learn some thing new.

Just placed a 4 GB memory stick from G-Skill and now I have 5 GB total. Don't really see a difference in what I'm doing at this time.

Good luck with your future purchase kabob

 

[japtor]

Now for the hard part in getting Microsoft out of my head and finding things on this Apple. Wish this OS had a "Notepad" application or "WordPad" so I would not have to learn some thing new.

Do you need a basic text editor or as a quick notepad thing? For text TextEdit (included with OS X) might work, for a notepad/text scratch I use Notational Velocity, but there's other options out there too.

 

[SR45]

Do you need a basic text editor or as a quick notepad thing? For text TextEdit (included with OS X) might work, for a notepad/text scratch I use Notational Velocity, but there's other options out there too.

Just found the text editor japtor and its fine, but am now looking for just a simple Word program that does not have Excel/power point and all the rest I do not need that works on a Mac.

Thanks for the link

 

[Fishrrman]

"Just found the text editor japtor and its fine, but am now looking for just a simple Word program that does not have Excel/power point and all the rest I do not need that works on a Mac."

Very simple and basic (may be too much so for your needs), but try this free one:
http://www.bean-osx.com/

Works great for "light duty".

 

[SR45]

Another good one to check out. Thank you Fishrrman

Txt editor is OK, but the ones suggested and shown by you guys are in the right direction.

 

[specialk0449]

Another good one to check out. Thank you Fishrrman

Txt editor is OK, but the ones suggested and shown by you guys are in the right direction.

Go with Pages. It is a great word processing program. It is in the App Store for $19.99. I just bought the Mac mini and upgraded my RAM to 8 gigs. Mine is really performing well.

You will be extremely happy with your conversion to Apple from the PC world.
I have never had any regrets since I came over from the dark side.

 

[SR45]

I'm going with both a free version of a simple word program and "Pages". Might as well go full steam ahead with this apple product and programs to check out.

I'm retired and have a credit card