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Originally Posted by LostintheNW
I shall have to give that a go when it turns up - guess it will be fun to figure out a whole new opertaing system and see what things can be done with it
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TBH its not so new and scary (although a background in Linux helps) The filesystem is probably the biggest thing that is new and different, but easy enough to work out. Aside from that, it is the little things, like the minimise/maximise/close buttons are on the left, not right, and that the menubars aren't attached to the windows, they are attached to the desktop. You see them by clicking the owner window. One thing that gets beginners at first, is that closing the window doesn't always close the program (I have only ever seen 1 Mac program do that). You close it, it disappears, you think its closed, but it is still running in the Dock (thing at the bottom), with the ^ under it. You have to click-hold on itand close it there.
Oh year, and you need to grow some extra fingers per hand. Macs not only have Windows-styled 2 button shortcuts, but 3 and 4 button shortcuts too
Getting used to the Linux backend, and getting Linux apps to run on Macs is the biggest/toughest thing you'll probably need to know, but there are good books out there (and websites).