I just went to a near by store and played around with the macbook. I have no idea how to use os x. How come I couldn't maximze and screens? The three cirlces on the top left was CLOSE, TAKE OFF SCREEN, and + which didn't increase much. How can you maximize screens in macbook?
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the mac's + button doesn't maximise the screen like in windows...it's like a "best fit" button...so it expands it to whatever the os thinks is the best fit for that particular program/window...i'm not sure if there's an actual maximise shortcut or not but i generally just drag the window out to however big i want it...
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Yeah, you know... I found that really annoying at first. However, I 'm really starting to dig not having all my windows full screen now.
And there are things you can download that will change teh behavior so it does maximize the window. -
yah, its a best fit maximize. Think if you had a 24 or 30 inch cinema display with those really high resolutions, would you really maximize a window that doesn't need all that much space to fill that huge of a screen? its a waste of screenspace. so its quite handy to make it only as large as it needs to be.
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Maximizing is outdated. On older monitors it made sense. The resolutions were 800x600 at best, so you needed to use all the real estate. With todays high-res widescreen monitors, maximizing wastes a lot of space. It takes a little getting used to, but I now never maximize in Windows either. I like being able to easily stack windows.
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and because os x benefits a lot of drag and drop, so it makes sense that windows will not fully maximized.
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Yeah, only a few apps need all the desktop space.
I.E. Aperature, Logic, Photoshop, Ableton Live...
Most other apps you'll get used to, and love using it in a not so full sized setting. I used to only use FF and IE fullscreen, but now.. .meh. I have it about 3/4 of the way across so I have room for other stuff on teh side of it.
Maximize in os x
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by vaio_boi, Sep 22, 2006.