Switching From Windows With Apple iMac

Are you a Microsoft Windows user who has finally decided to switch from his age old Windows operating system based personal computer to the technologically advanced Apple iMac computer system? If you are, you are one among millions of Windows users who are migrating from their Windows based systems to an Apple iMac. While you may or may not be familiar with the operation of iMac operating system known as the Mac OS X, it would not be wrong to say that you will get a hang of it pretty soon. Possibly one of the most user friendly operating system for computer users, Mac OS X is built to provide virus free environment with fast performance to a computer user.

Call it the excellent brand promotion techniques used by Apple or the much publicised quick performance of iMac computer system, sales of Apple iMac computers has been on a rise since the past couple of years. Even though Mac OS X is a user friendly computer system, users migrating from the Windows operating system will face some glitches along the way. Because there are not as many Apple iMac computer users as there are Windows users, help is not that easy to come by for Apple iMac users.

Even though almost all operating systems available today use more or less the same user interface, Windows and Mac OS X does have some differences that can take a while to get used to. Although Mac OS X and Windows have their own advantages as well as disadvantages, users with Mac OS X have an undue advantage of being able to run Windows operating system from within iMac itself! This article will cover some basic operational differences between Windows operating system and iMac so that Windows users can have an ease in their transition:

• The Start Menu – Unlike Windows operating system, there is no start menu available with iMac. All the functions and applications of Apple iMac can be easily accessed from Dock and the Apple menu available at the top left corner of the screen.
• The Menu Bar – Apple iMac uses a very simple yet highly usable design architecture for implementing quick access to the application interface. While a menu bar exists in every application of Windows operating system, Mac OS X allows easy understanding of the application by changing its menu bar that is always present at the top side of the screen. As and when any window is changed or an application is opened, the menu that always resides at the top of the screen changes to reflect the options available in the program.
• The Task Bar – While Windows operating system has a Task Bar, Mac OS X has the Dock. The dock can be used to gain quick access to programs that are a user uses frequently.
• Using Keyboard Shortcuts – Almost all Windows operating system keyboard shortcuts are available with iMac. While all shortcuts are available, instead of the control key, you will use the command key available on the iMac keyboard.