As mentioned in our last lecture by Prof Soo, Mac users can be VERY passionate about their Macs(notice i don't associate it with words like laptop/PC? :p )
As one of the only Mac users in class, perhaps it is only fair that i try to introduce a little tempting detail about Mac that makes us love it so much.
The Dashboard
Some of u may have heard before Mac users talk about "Widgets" and "Dashboard" but you always had no idea what it meant? Basically all Macs come default with this interesting thing call Dashboard. At a one button click, u can get another "layer" of screen over your existing one. This "layer" is fully customizable according to your preference.
Let me illustrate this below:
The picture above is me surfing at our favorite web page :D
This is how it looks after i bring in the dashboard. Notice that it dims the background and brings the Dashboard to the foreground? Any widget could appear here and placed according to your liking. For example, u will notice i have wikipedia and dictionary in my dashboard, which is helpful to students like us! i have a translator on standby in case of unexpected needs.
Notice the little blue pad? that's my version of post-it notes :D u can put as many as u need and they will always be available with one button touch.
The sky is the limit to it's application! i could have travel info, yellow pages, espn web tv..etc.
To date there are millions of official widgets(by now u may have guess it, it's the little different programs on Dashboard) on Apple website, with many more by private developers out there.
The motto of Mac isn't to give you what u want.
They give you what you want before u realize that's what you want.
Inventing ahead of generation is a Mac's strongest point.
The physical specs may seem low, but it's efficiency is off the charts :D
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