iMac help

[BrianG]

lol, and I stand by that statement! I really hate working on her Mac; it's basically a laptop with an external keyboard/mouse and no battery. She likes the fact that her Mac is faster than my "hulking" desktop, but let's not forget that most of the components are ~7 years old, and even then they wouldn't cost nearly as much as an equivalent Mac.

Oh, and while on the subject, can anyone answer this: What is the difference between using the "-" button vs the "X" button? They both appear to minimize the app to the dock, but still are running in the background (confirmed by the little blue glowing dot under the app icon in the dock, and doing a "ps -ef" from a terminal window). I googled this question, and people seem to think the X button closes the app, but unless my wife's Mac is completely different, I don't agree. In Windows and even the distros of Linux I've tried, the "-" button minimizes, and the "X" fully closes.