{"id":7475,"date":"2005-07-14T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/14\/switch-from-xp-to-os-x\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:22","slug":"switch-from-xp-to-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/14\/switch-from-xp-to-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch from XP to OS X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=macosx>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got some ideas about migrating my parents from Windows XP to OS X, specifically on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac mini<\/a>. I&#8217;m really thinking there might be some issues here, so I was wondering how people here would address such problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; First, I&#8217;m thinking that a Mac mini with all options except a DVD writer would be purchased, and 1GB of RAM installed. With US Student discount, this would run about $1K. Price isn&#8217;t huge here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&middot; I feel that OS X requires a user to have a greater understanding of the concept of filesystems, directory hierarchy, and how to manage storage of things. For example, under XP users typically only have to save things where they default to (eg: My Documents, My Pictures, etc). Under OS X, defaults are often the last folder viewed.<\/p>\n<p>&middot; Installing applications on OS X isn&#8217;t as simple as it typically is on Windows. For <em>most<\/em> applications a user has to just pop in the CD, click through the buttons, and then look for the application somewhere under Start. On OS X a user often has to drag the application to the Applications folder &#8212; and the right one at that.<\/p>\n<p>&middot; OS X is (obviously) non-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiple_document_interface\">MDI<\/a>. For those most familiar with a typically MDI environment such as Windows, this is often a huge slap-in-the-face change. However, for someone such as my parents (who this machine would be for) who normally run Windows applications maximized, with the single menu bar at the top which changes with app focus, this might not be such a big deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, yeah, I am babbling a lot here, but I&#8217;m really wondering how easy the transition would be. Additionally, I&#8217;m trying to determine if there would be any benefit to purchasing a Mac mini for them. I can see the iPhoto integration and such being a good thing, along with the quiet machine and the nice hardware warranty. But the retraining issues outweigh the benefits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and &#8230;] So I&#8217;ve got some ideas about migrating my parents from Windows XP to OS X, specifically on a Mac mini. I&#8217;m really thinking there might be some issues here, so I was wondering how people here would address such problems: &middot; First, I&#8217;m thinking that a Mac mini with all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}