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I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
by tensor 17y ago
I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
- rbanffy 17y agoI do indeed prefer menus and toolbars to be close to the information I am manipulating. The one contextual menu bar on the top of the screen made a lot of sense on the early days of the Lisa and the Mac, but unless you get used to keyboard shortcuts, it does not make a lot of sense to move your mouse to monitor 1 when what you want to do is with something in a window on monitor 2 (or 3). It doesn't bother me too much when I am running a couple terminals and Emacs, or working on a spreadsheet on Google docs, but it would drive me crazy if I had to do it with Word. Specially with two or more 24+ inch screens. I am curious as to how do you deal with this situation. Keyboard shortcuts or moving the mouse between monitors? How frequent is each situation?
- ghshephard 17y agoDo you have two large monitors? I find OS X so poorly adapted to my 30" + 27" Monitor, that I frequently find myself just using my 17" MacBook Pro - it's not as much real estate, but the large monitor is so clumsy, that, except in very specific tasks where I need to have multiple windows going simultaneously so I can see tasks happening at the same time, I get very little extra value, and sometimes _lose_ productivity from having to move my mouse Waaaay over to the first screen from something that might be (literally) feet away. It's a little better with two 24" monitors.