Quit application/s on a Mac questions

Thanks very much Paul for the help its much appreciated.

From the advice from someone off of these forums who advised me to buy as much ram as I could afford, I'm planning on having 24 GB installed (has its relativley cheap).

The Command+Q you mentioned. Will this quit all the apps I've got open, or for example if I were in iTunes and I pressed Command+Q would this just quit iTunes (or whatever app I was using)?

So for example if I had like yourself, Mail, Chrome running, and I pressed the red dot on those applications, I presume then that they would stop in ram and in doing so would load up quicker the next time I needed them?

Also, if I pressed the red dot on those applications, and put the iMac to sleep or shutdown, would the next time I switched the iMac on, would these applications have been quitted because of the sleep, shutdown?

Thanks again for the help.

Thanks again Paul.

The guy who recommended getting as much ram as I could afford, also recommended Crucial and another called OWC. But OWC were expensive as they are in the US and as I live in the UK the international shipping was expensive. So I'm going to get my ram from Crucial, but I'll have a look too on Macsales.com and compare the prices, thanks for the recommendations.

Re the "resume" feature. Do you have it switched on and if so have you had any problems from using it?

Thanks again for the help.

Thanks so much Paul for the help.

I think I'll do a price comparison from OWC and Crucial at the time or me ordering the ram and see how they compare, although I would say Crucial would be faster delivery with them having a UK site.

Resume seems a really useful feature. I'm learning about new things on the Mac all the time from helpful people like yourself, and hopefully when I get my iMac early next year I'll have learned a little more. I'm planning on going on one of the free Workshops that Apple run in their retail stores. I'll be in a city later this month that has an Apple Store, so I'm going to see if there is any Workshop running the day I'm going to be there.

I've read a bit on the sleep/shutdown debate. From what I've read, the general consensus is most say sleeping is the best option apart from when you have installed updates (from what I can remember), and perhaps a shutdown maybe once a week or every few weeks.

I know sleep or hibernate on Windows is a bit flaky, after a day or so of it not been restarted/shutdown, the computer can start to behave strangely.

Thanks again Paul for the help its much appreciated 🙂

Just out of curiosity, how do you turn the Resume feature on and off?

Thanks again Paul.

So are you presented with the request in your image everytime you restart, shutdown and also when you put the Mac to sleep?

Or is there a general setting (in the System Preferences for example) whereby you can either have Resume switched on all the time or off all the time?

So basically, each time I put the iMac to sleep or restarted, shutdown, I would be presented with the image in your earlier post, so if I unticked the "reopen windows when logging back in" that would basically switch off the resume feature?

And obviously to switch the resume feature back on I would retick the "reopen windows when logging back in"?

Whether I have the box ticked or unticked, I presume that this choice is remembered from then on and I would then just click on the restart (or sleep, shutdown depending on what I was wanting to do) button the next time?

Thanks very much for the help Paul, you've helped me a lot, it's much appreciated.

Thanks very much baltwo for the help and the useful links its much appreciated.

I have a folder in my Internet browser called Mac Stuff, which I use for bookmarking useful sites, links, so I'll add the links you mentioned to this and have a read of them.

I'm going to also print some keyboard shortcuts out and stick them to my wall around my desk, so that I can see and learn them more easily.

Thanks again.