Microsoft can eat my fat cock

[A Black Falcon]

What you said hear lends itself to the fact that you are unfamiliar with using Macs. The Apple menu hasn't been the main hub of the Mac since 1999 when OS X was released. The Dock is where most of your navigating begins. The great thing about the Dock is that it is fully-customizable. My Dock has my most-used applications (Word, Excel, Safari, Geometer's Sketchpad, and the Terminal) as well as my home directory, applications folder, and documents folder so I can get to everything I need with pretty much one click of the mouse and a second of navigating.

That thing at the bottom, right? Good like the windows quicklaunch taskbar, for a few programs you use often, but is it a true program access manager? No, that's just for quick access, not for something that acts as a program manager... unless it's got the ability to become an unfolding folder tree like the Start menu?

"links to folders" says it all. MacOS still has no good program manager... it'd be like if Windows had no effective Programs folder in the Start menu and you were expected to open your programs in Windows Explorer (you know, what you get when you run My Computer...)... ridiculous...

This is your opinion so I can't really say it's wrong, but I love that the menu for programs is always in the same place. I am always trying out new programs and it is very easy to learn a new program when the menu is more or less the same in every program.

It's also odd for a Windows user since the menubar is on top, while in Windows the name bar is on top and the menubar is below it... I know that's just opinion/what you are used to though.

They could be slow because the Macs are much older than the PCs. And if you want to right-click with a one-button mouse on a Mac you can always press Command (the Apple key) and click. Anyway, the fact that they don't have a version of Word that is compatible with Word 2000 shows me that they don't keep up the Macs in those labs very well.

Those computers are the flatscreen iMacs. There are also some older eMacs (the old-style imac...) that run just as poorly... those ones are in a different room though, without chairs, and are meant just for email and for that they function.

Oh, and I know about Apple-Click, but that's a ridiculous thing... any mouse commmand that requires the keyboard to function isn't a mouse command. Oh, they do have multi-button mice, with scrollwheels, so it's not that there isn't a right button... it's just that the right button doesn't actually let you do much compared to the rightclick menus you get in PC programs, presumably because they assume that most people won't care because they don't have right buttons anyway and can't be bothered with annoying stuff like "apple-click"...