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Cmd + Space for Spotlight search box is very handy.
by J3L2404 16y ago
Cmd + Space for Spotlight search box is very handy.
- albemuth 16y agotoo slow, quiksilver or alfred ftw
- quellhorst 16y agoWith SSD it is as fast as quicksilver.
- mrcharles 16y agoI cannot stress heavily enough how brilliantly fast MacOS is when running off an SSD. I thought windows was peppy when I put an SSD in my desktop. Since putting an SSD in my MBP, MacOS X went from a sluggish annoyance where icons bounced 5-10 times before an app loaded, to a speedy "no time to bounce at all" app start.
- pygy_ 16y agoI did the same with a first generation MBP (bought in the summer 2006). I replaced the main HD with a Corsair V64, and replaced the optical drive with the old HDD with this kit[1]. The HDD now works in plain old ATA, but it doesn't matter. I use it for mass storage, not for speed. The results are amazing. It takes: - 21 seconds from cold boot to login prompt (and 5 more to get a responsive finder), - 13 seconds to shut down, and - 22 seconds to wake from deep sleep (2GB of RAM). As you said, the apps launch almost instantly, including Office 2011 which was incredibly slow from the hard disk. -- [1]http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ ($99). They also provide an external USB case for the DVD drive. Ifixit offers a similar adapter, cheaper ($60), but without the case. http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/9-5-mm-Optical-Bay-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/IF107-078 http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/9-5-mm-Optical-Bay-SATA-Ha...
- ljegou 16y agoI agree, but i kept wondering about the lifespan of my apple-samsung ssd, without trim.
- geuis 16y agoIt hasnt been slow for several years.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoI beg to differ. It's sluggish. Depends what you are used to I guess. I don't find it even a decent calculator, try doing a division!! It launches the calculator and doesn't even both to pre-fill the question.
- jonknee 16y agoIt does division fine. Pre-filling would definitely be handy though.
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- Groxx 16y agoMine was exceedingly slow when I had >2,000,000 files (gigabytes of versioned source code will do that). Several seconds to pull up an application by name. 10-30 seconds to pull up an infrequently-accessed document by filename. > 1 minute to pull up a PDF by content. All of which caused a few seconds delay between every result-set returned, during which it was entirely unresponsive. It still worked faster - pressing `enter` would grab the top result when it came up - but that's unacceptably slow.
- Legion 16y agoQuicksilver or something similar is a must. I have become SO much happier with my desktop environments since embracing Quicksilver and Gnome-Do.
- makecheck 16y agoI find myself using the Spotlight box for things I wouldn't have guessed...like looking up words in the dictionary, or doing math.
- X-Istence 16y agoWhen on a webpage in Safari or in a text document within one of the applications that uses Mac OS X's native "drawing", you can hover over a word and hit Ctrl + Cmd + D to get a quick definition of a word!
- pfaux 16y agoOnly works for English and Japanese.
- mambodog 16y agoWow, okay, I already use it every day but now I know it does arithmetic as well... thanks!
- ugh 16y agoBesides its capabilities as a launcher, Spotlight is also a very capable calculator. Stuff like sqrt(2pi^e) works, oh, and Cmd+C works for the results, too. Someone was really sweating the details on that one.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoI keep going back and forth between the Google Quick Search and Spotlight as my Cmd + Space shortcut.
- dtwwtd 16y agoGive Alfred a try and have the both of best worlds, I couldn't live without it now. http://alfredapp.com http://alfredapp.com
- Groxx 16y agoI map it to F12 (and dashboard to cmd+F12, as I rarely use it). Physical similarity with the spotlight icon's location, and lets me map cmd+space to changing input methods (ie, switching to 日本語).
- Hates_ 16y agoI'm still hooked on Launchbar.
- gregparadee 16y agoI agree, I use this for pretty much everything.
- jodrellblank 16y agoWhen I Spotlight for "Applications" meaning "the folder with all my applications in it", instead it finds (only) a folder named Applications somewhere deep in the XCode example code with sod all in it. Any ideas how to get it to do what I want instead of something else? (or at least, also do what I want).
- cing 16y agoYou can at least prevent Spotlight from searching in the XCode folder by manually adding it to the list in System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.
- proles 16y agoios does it with the search bar in safari, but it'd be nice if spotlight would also let you search the current document, search the web, etc. all with a simple command+spacebar.
- rapind 16y agoYup that's the only way I launch anything.