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- Mar 31, 2008
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- Your Mac's Specs
- First gen Mac Pro, Dual 2.66
As a switcher, of course.
1. The way programs work. This one took some serious observing, but the single file program thing was really throwing me for a loop? Where are the support files? Where are the config files? Oh, turns out that application icon I run is actually a folder, and the OS just 'knows' what to do with it and it's file structure! Coming from Windows, this is pure genius! If you've always been a mac person, you would take this for granted I bet.
2. The menu bar. It's actually detached from the program! This one takes some getting used to, as one is used to it following it's program around. Which leads to...
3. When I click 'X', it doesn't actually close a program. This one is actually highly annoying. The way the dock shows running programs is sort of inconsistent, so you could be running a program for days and sometimes not notice. Is there a mod or something that will let me fully close a program when I click 'X'?
4. Partitioning on the fly. Wow, really? I don't have to use a $100 program to do this? Sweet.
5. Install programs by just copying them. No. Effing. Way.
6. The file structure can be a little daunting if you've never used a flavor of *nix
7. Extremely inconsistent version problems. A program that works fine in, say, 10.5.1, may not work at all in 10.4.9. I know you have to start leaving legacy code behind at some point, but sometimes this seems a little fast considering how quickly apple can put out these updates.
I haven't had it very long, but this is it for now. For all intense and purposes, this is a much better OS than Windows (especially vista). If OSX had better remote management capabilities, I think I would marry it
Do you have any observations? I mean, outside of the usual marketing 'it just works' kind of observations?
1. The way programs work. This one took some serious observing, but the single file program thing was really throwing me for a loop? Where are the support files? Where are the config files? Oh, turns out that application icon I run is actually a folder, and the OS just 'knows' what to do with it and it's file structure! Coming from Windows, this is pure genius! If you've always been a mac person, you would take this for granted I bet.
2. The menu bar. It's actually detached from the program! This one takes some getting used to, as one is used to it following it's program around. Which leads to...
3. When I click 'X', it doesn't actually close a program. This one is actually highly annoying. The way the dock shows running programs is sort of inconsistent, so you could be running a program for days and sometimes not notice. Is there a mod or something that will let me fully close a program when I click 'X'?
4. Partitioning on the fly. Wow, really? I don't have to use a $100 program to do this? Sweet.
5. Install programs by just copying them. No. Effing. Way.
6. The file structure can be a little daunting if you've never used a flavor of *nix
7. Extremely inconsistent version problems. A program that works fine in, say, 10.5.1, may not work at all in 10.4.9. I know you have to start leaving legacy code behind at some point, but sometimes this seems a little fast considering how quickly apple can put out these updates.
I haven't had it very long, but this is it for now. For all intense and purposes, this is a much better OS than Windows (especially vista). If OSX had better remote management capabilities, I think I would marry it
Do you have any observations? I mean, outside of the usual marketing 'it just works' kind of observations?