[P1] new ibook user

[Kim Gammelg å rd]

On 15/01/03 13:19, "J. Brenning" <brenning at egyptian.net> wrote:

> Is it okay to move a laptop while you're using it? I've always known not to
> move a cpu while it's on, but it seems, at least partly, the point of a
> laptop is the portability -- even while it's running. But what's to stop
> the harddrive from crashing? What about traveling in a car on a
> not-so-smooth road?
I have never had any problems with my  old iBook, that I carry to work every
day, and that I never switch off.

> 
> Also, when she turns on her laptop and looks at the screen, there are file
> folders showing. Is this the equivalent of the PC's desktop? If so, how do
> you file these folder to get them off the desktop and on as shortcuts?

I guess you are asking a real PC-question here. On a PC, there is some
strange notion about the desktop, that it will try to preload the documents
or whatever into the memory of your computer. (Do correct me if I am wrong,
but this is what I have seen on my work-PC's, and I have a few) The way that
PC-users circumvent this is only to make aliases on the desktop, as the
application that acts so silly and eats your RAM for no reason is also very
easily fooled. 

This is not the case on your iBook! The Mac OSes allow you to throw as much
as you like to on your desktop - as long as you have hard disk space for it
of course - without it affecting the performance of the iBook.

If you want to, you can easily throw things into folders or whatever, except
for your drives and the trash(if in OS9), as somebody already pointed out.

Cheers,

Kim