The fear of switching from PC to Mac prevented me from taking this leap for years. My office neighbor was a retired director, and he had Mac and iPod, etc. That was more than 10 years ago. He tried, evening letting me play with an old iPod. I stayed (i)Pod-less. (I love to listen to music, but don't like ear butts.)

Fast forward, my laptop is dying (I think) and I am leaving U. Hawaii. So, I will not get free service if something goes wrong with my PC. There is an Apple store right across the street, and one of my girlfriends told me about these one-to-one classes that cost $99/year. I thought that was such a good deal. If I went weekly for an hour, each lesson would cost me less than USD2! I know there are many, many features on a Mac, or a PC, but all I had done was Word, ppt, xlsx, email, photos, and web surfing.

So, here is what I learned from my first one-to-one class.

1) Two-finger press on the trackpad: press two fingers down simutaneousely, and you get the "right click." This is better than using "ctl"+one-finger click, which takes two hands.

2) Three-finger tap: you move the curse to a word in your Mac Notes (or a web page), and lightly tap it with three fingers. The word will be highlighted, with a pop-up windwon showing dictionary, thesaurus, and wikipedia. (Too bad this does not work for Word.)

3) Five-finger move: put all five fingers down, and move them inward. Something will happen. Try it.

All these N-finger movements made me wonder whether or not Mac will get sued one day by people who do not have five fingers... Oh, well, that's how my brain works; it likes to think.

With all I learned yesterday, I still love the two-finger scroll (to move a page up and down, and left and right), which I learned on the first day. Why? This helps me to relax my right hand, which was doing most of the extra work on a PC laptop.

(Note: Later on, I discovered many other ways of using the trackpad. It's under "System Preferences." It's like having a trainer who does not speak.)

Next, I had a tour of the exterior of the MacBook Pro. Why don't you take a look around your Mac, and tell me which slot/button you don't understand. The half-visible button on the left hand side is something I probably would not care to play with if not told. The same for the small slot on the right hand side--but it's unlikely I will ever use it.