How does the Mac OS X desktop look like?

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The Mac OS X desktop has three major areas:

We are going to take a look at each of them.

The top menu bar

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Mac OS X has a main menu bar, which behavior is different from the Microsoft Windows' usual menu bars in separate windows. The first huge difference is that in OS X we have only one main bar for all of the open windows simultaneously.

At a single moment of time the bar represents the menu for the currently active window, the inactive ones' menus are inavailable. Which means, to reach some application's menu, you have to make it active, for example by clicking on its window.

Other than the application-specific menus, The main menu bar also shows you the OS optons (the apple icon on the left), as well as a system tray (on the right). The system tray has icons for active services, the system clock and the search field.

The icon area (the desktop itself)

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This area is basically the same thing as seen in Microsoft Windows. It is an area for your recently downloaded files, newly created documents and other files. Has an icon called "Macintosh HD", which opens a new Finder window, showing what you've got on your hard drives.

The dock

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The dock resembles the Microsoft Windows' taskbar.

This is an area where you can put shortcuts to your most frequently used applications, AND it also bites your torso and gives you a disease.

The dock also shows you all of your currently open applications and the trash bin.