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For a long time I enjoyed my late 2011 unibody Macbook Pro, and it was pretty great. Certainly more intuitive than anything from Windows or Linux at the time.
by mcv 5y ago
For a long time I enjoyed my late 2011 unibody Macbook Pro, and it was pretty great. Certainly more intuitive than anything from Windows or Linux at the time.
It died a few years ago. I recently got a Macbook Pro from work, and weird stuff just keeps happening. I'm happily doing something, and suddenly everything goes all wobbly, or something suddenly zooms in. I have to put effort into hunting down the window I want, because alt-tab doesn't switch windows, only apps. ctrl+down gets me the windows from that app. Except when something is maximized, because then I need to remember where I left it if I want to switch to it.
I can't shake the impression that somewhere down the line, Apple lost their direction and started messing things up. The crappy keyboards they added are pretty infamous, but they also managed to make the desktop unintuitive.
Edit: also, why can't you drag and drop files anymore? This used to just work.
- ftio 5y agoProtip: Cmd+tilde (~) cycles through windows in the current app. Coming from Windows, it can be annoying, but once you build the muscle memory, it can actually be quite nice to have the two methods separated.