understand Picas? Both are computers and both suck, but thats life. Quit being a cheerleader for PC's, they both have their problems. ow about combining both? i happen to use a pc keyboard on my mac, so i set the key labeled PrtScrn to "save the picture of screen as a file." so by pressing a single key now i get a screenshot saved to desktop. voila! in a mac, to change any keyboard shortcut to any key you please, find the simple instructions in the mac Help menu. Switch to the screen that you wan to to do screen capture Hold down Apple key ? + Shift + 3 and release all then use your mouse to click on the screen Done. You will see a picture file in at your desktop. That's the screen capture picture. I just recently got my new MacBook Pro (used to be a PC/windows user). and I've wanted to learn how to print screen on my new laptop. THIS REALLY WORKS! and it's convenient and so cool. Thanks whole bunches!!! I am happier than ever haha. I know this post is old, but I just had to add a few things. First of all many of you are wrong, it is much easier on a PC. On a PC you just press the Prt Sc (Print Screen) button and then you can paste (Ctrl V) anywhere you want -- into an email, into Paint, into anything. If you only want to capture the