Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

14 switching to the mac: the missing manual

On iMacs and Mac Minis, the power button is on the back panel. On Power Macs,

it’s on the front panel. And on laptop Macs, the button is near the upper-right corner

of the keyboard. (Then again, if you have a laptop, you should get into the habit of

just closing the lid when you’re done working, and opening it to resume; the power

button rarely plays a role in your life.)

In every case, though, the power button looks the same (Figure 1-1): it bears the π

logo.

That One-Button Mouse

Every Windows mouse ever made has at least two mouse buttons. You use the left

one for selecting things, and the right one for making shortcut menus appear (Figure

1-2). If you have a newer mouse, it might even have a scroll wheel in the middle for

efficiently scrolling long documents and Web pages.

The mouse that came with your Mac, however, has only one mouse button—the

equivalent of the Windows left mouse button. You use it exclusively for selecting and

clicking things.

That’s not to say that you can’t “right-click” things with your one-button mouse—you

can, as shown in Figure 1-2. On the Mac, though, you’re supposed to produce shortcut

menus by holding down the Control key as you click things on the screen.

Power On, Dude

Figure 1-1:

Every Mac’s power button looks like

this, although it might be hard to find.

The good news: Once you find it, it’ll

pretty much stay ...