Throwdown: Mac vs. Windows 7

Okay, there will be no pretty pictures with this post because I'm using a Mac to do it and I don't know my way around. So deal.

Dan's currently got a MacBook and a Dell with the release candidate of Windows 7 on it and he's letting me play with both because he rocks like that.

Can I confess something here? I've used Windows since Windows 3.0 (so a long time). But the prettiness of the Mac tempts me oh so very very much. Before Dan and I owned iPods, we had a Dell Digital Jukebox and I had such issues with that hunk of metal that I abandon the idea of having an MP3 player all together. Then I had to download iTunes to do the whole podcast thing and I fell in love. iTunes was so easy to use and then I got an iPod and it worked together so well.... Bliss! I was completely in love. So much in love that I wanted to love Macs, not just iTunes and my iPod. Dan and I had been talking about getting me a new laptop so we went to the Apple store to play with Macs to see if I wanted one of those.

Five minutes with a Mac and I was ready to kill it.

But the Apple people would frowned on that being as it was, you know, theirs and not mine.

I never gave up the desire to love Macs, though. I want to like them. I want to play with the pretty. But yeah. So I'm playing with this one and some things are cool - how "option"+"arrow" take you to the beginning (or end, depending on the arrow key) of the next word while "command"+"arrow" take you to the beginning (or end) of the line. But some other things are not so cool. Like not having a real delete key because the Mac "delete" key is really a backspace key. And Safari is telling me that I have some misspellings in this post (with the red squiggly underline) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to pop up a dictionary to give me the options of what the proper spelling is because there is NO FREAKING RIGHT CLICK!! And I just tried to do "command"+"delete" to see if it would delete instead of backspace and it deleted the whole line. AUGH!

I really would like to become adept - or at least competent - with Macs. But right now Windows 7 winning because it has the pretty and I know how to freaking use it.

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Woo hoo - Dan looked it up online and so now I'm able to get a right click menu to show up "control"+"click". But seriously, he had to look it up. I keep hearing how intuitive Macs are but I guess that is only for those that have never used a computer before? Because I've used Windows for so long that Windows functions are intuitive for me.

And seriously, how can you not have a proper delete key??????