Inside the Mind of a Mac Newbie

By Damien Barrett

Giles Turnbull has an interesting post over at the O'Reilly MacDevCenter weblog today: Inside the Mind of a Mac Newbie. His PC-using brother got an iBook and Giles has been getting questions from him like "How do I right-click?" and "How do I hide the row of application icons at the bottom of the screen?"

As intuitive as Mac OS X can be, it still takes some getting used to. I've both helped people switch, helped brand-new computer users get oriented to Mac OS X, and have encountered much of what Giles talks about his post. I've also gotten questions like:

- where's the CD eject button?
- how do I uninstall an application?
- which anti-virus software should I use?

What kinds of questions have you gotten from new Mac users?
 

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