Good site for intermediate knowledge on Mac system architecture?

I have had up until now only a Windows-based background. My son recently got a Mac. There are plenty of guides for beginners which are aimed at the user-interface level for basic tasks. However I would like to read up on more of the Mac Operating system architecture itself eg I am fairly familiar with using Windows Control Panel, Device manager, the Windows registry itself - basically comfortable and knowledgeable about anything in windows system settings. Have had extensive training in virus removal so can interpret log files etc....I don't need or want to go to the extent of knowledge to program a Mac or anything of interest to Developers, but want to go a bit beyond understanding what the icons in the Dock represent.
Is there a good website to start....yes, I know, playing around with the Mac is the best way to learn but I can't get near it for one thing, and I don't want to go experimenting till I know more about it. Would appreciate a pointer to any good reading material, especially if it has screen shots of various system folders or applications showing the menus available, etc.
As an example, if I download a new device driver in Windows, I know where to look for it...we downloaded an updated printer driver the other day & it self-installed but I have no idea where it was installed....

ozegirl wrote:
Thanks guys, appreciate the suggestions, hope I'm not sounding picky/ungrateful for the help, but I'm not after stuff to do with developers/programmers. It's just wanting to find the Mac equivalents of things like msconfig, regedit (if there is such a thing in Mac), disk defrag, disk clean-up, tweaking settings - I guess this kind of stuff is mostly in System preferences? Things like the Administrative Tools in Windows where services can be stopped or disabled....pardon my ignorance if this is not relevant to Mac, I really know nothing about it. Maybe Confucious was right! Might need to get my own Mac The only time my son lets me near his computer is when something goes wrong & then he wants me to fix it. LOL!
Mac OS is (un)fortunately very good at doing most of the above itself. i expect the terminal app can do some of it but i'm no good on the terminal side. i'd use 3rd party apps with a GUI such as Cocktail

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