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I tried to switch over to a mac a year ago. It didn't work, so I switched back after three months. I found that a lot of little things were annoying, and made m
by mixmax 19y ago
I tried to switch over to a mac a year ago. It didn't work, so I switched back after three months. I found that a lot of little things were annoying, and made me spend more time than I needed on doing trivial things sucha as resizing of windows. On mac it can only be done from one corner, on windows from all four. There are lots of these little things that mean you have to spend three clicks instead of two. I see why they make sense if you're a beginner - it's almost impossible to do anything wrong. Other things that annoy me the fact that it is impossible to find a lot of the little shareware programs I use under windows, and that their equivalent of Outlook really sucks. And I simply don't understand why there is only one mousebutton. That alone was enough to switch back.
Overall my opinion of macs is that they are excellent for beginners, and for looking cool in the cafes but for me it simply didn't make the cut for serious work.
I don't code, but work in outlook, excel, word and a browser. This might make make a difference.
- jmtulloss 19y agoThe pseudo multi-touch trackpad on the macbook is awesome. It takes away the pain of the one mouse button and makes scrolling a joy. After experiencing that trackpad, no other trackpad even comes close (though I bet the one on the macbook air is even more of a joy to use)
- utx00 19y agoI code. I had the exact same experience. This is two years ago and things might have improved. But the ports system did not have that much software, I didn't like the feel of the keyboard, it's a huge heat sink (and then in cold NY mornings it would be cold to the touch when I started it), I didn't like the anti-alising, I didn't like the default terminal program (and couldn't be bothered to get a new one ... that was the point of getting a powerbook in the first place - all the supposedly annoying sysadmin things I wouldn't have to do). java support was horrible too (that might be better - and besides this is not a java crowd) I didn't like all the proprietary formats for iphoto, and itunes either. oh and yeah. I have a lot of mail. The import into Mail.app took days. It was ok after that. But once again, the mail files use a proprietary tagging system to know when mail is read and what not. It wasn't fun porting that back to maildir. try ubuntu. you might like.
- utx00 19y agoincidentally, if anyone is interested i found this script to turn all my files from elmx into mbox (and eventually maildir). well written. works like a charm. http://www.jwz.org/hacks/emlx.pl http://www.jwz.org/hacks/emlx.pl
- mixmax 19y agoIt's interesting to hear a coder having some of the same experiences. And btw I had the exact same problem with porting mails, except it took me around three days to get working. I'm actually dual booting w. windows and Ubuntu to try it out. And I like it.
- pistoriusp 19y agoSteve jobs hates buttons, I don't know about the other models but the MacBook Pro has two buttons, as does the mighty mouse, you've just got to enable it.
- dcurtis 19y agoThe mighty mouse only has one "button," but uses software to create the second click based on a sensor. I guess that's just another example of just how much Steve Jobs hates buttons. Also, not including the keyboard, the MacBook Pro has 3 buttons-- the mouse button, the power button, and the battery indicator button.
- rksprst 19y agoThere is a right click, simply click while you have two fingers on the touchpad. This is much simpler than moving your thumb to click on the right button.