My Hands on with 1st Mac ever :: iMac 27" i5 8 GB

[MythicFrost]

5. Applications don't close them when i close them. Im not stupid, when i say closed…CLOSE it please!

It's actually really good this way, you'll get used to it. Cmd+Q to quit an application.

7. When i open a picture in Preview, i cannot see the other pictures in the folder by clicking next, i have to open another picture manually. Seriously???

Use quick look then, it should be able to do that.

 

[biggy52]

1. Nope, it's FileCutter (which is not an application but a contextual menu plugin.) However, I see now it doesn't work on Snow Leopard.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29931

5. It's not inconsistent if you quit applications. Just right click the dock icon and click Quit, it will always kill the application. Why the close button behaves like it does has been explained. But there is no need to close applications with 8GB of RAM, that would be pure waste of that memory.

About inconsistency, in Windows the close button can be just as inconsistent as in Mac OS X. Internet Explorer shuts down when you click it. Windows Live Messenger minimizes to the system tray. I'm sorry, but the close button does whatever works best for that particular application, that's the way it works in pretty much all operating systems.

There is a setting in Windows Live Messenger to let it behave normally. So that when i click the X button, it will close it.

But then as everyone says, having 8 GB i dont really need to close the app. So i am least bothered. Just something that bugged me.

 

[deathwinger]

Hey big, how do you find the i5 processor deals with HD video encoding compared to your quad core desktop processor?