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I've Moved To Mac

Miss Whiplash

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I've tossed Windows and moved to a Mac. Where has this been all my life? I think I'm in love.
 
I have Windows, Linux & Mac PCs - I like to be able to bash all three from intimate knowledge of their various failings!
 
Vampire said:
I've tossed Windows and moved to a Mac. Where has this been all my life? I think I'm in love.
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Okay, I'm game. Please list the top three reasons why you're in love. "It's so much easier to use" is not specific enough. :D

~~ Paul
 
What's all this fuss about? MS-DOS 6.0 is clearly the best operating system on the market today.
 
I actually switched to an intel mac at work recently. I have mixed feelings.

The good:
  1. It's unix. I have been using unix for years.
  2. I was able to copy my Linux X11 fvwm2 config fairly easily. I have been using it for years so it was nice to have that.
  3. I was provided with a copy of parallels, so I can run windows software.
  4. The monitor looks great.
  5. I was easily able to hook up a second monitor.
  6. I have one machine that is at the same time Unix, Mac and Windows.
  7. The doc is slightly better that the tool bar.
  8. Dashboard Expose is nice.
The bad:
  1. The keyboard and mouse are garbage. I had to toss the "mighty mouse" almost immediately for a mouse that actually fits in your hand and has two real buttons and an actual wheel. The "cat nipple" scrolling thing was just weird. I am still struggling to get used to the keyboard.
  2. Steve Jobs thinks buttons and knobs are ugly so he hides/eliminates them. This makes the machine much harder to learn and use.
  3. I absolutely hate the teen/slacker Mac culture. I hid everything program that starts with i and now I have a tool instead of a toy.
  4. "It just works" is complete horsesh*t.
  5. The cursor blinks in a window even if that window isn't active. This makes me think I can type in it, but the key strokes are either lost or put in a different window. This is a definite no-no in the "easy to use" department. Especially when you have two monitors.
  6. The camera on the monitor creeps me out.
  7. I prefer to have menus in the window, not at the top of the screen.

Most of this is subjective. However, I think there is a reason Microsoft still has 90%+ of the market.
 
My two biggest gripes with Mac are pretty minor but still annoy me...

1. I, too, prefer menus in each window, not at the top of the screen

2. Is there a good reason why hitting the red button doesn't quit the program but seems to do pretty much the same thing as the yellow button?
 
HarryKeogh said:
2. Is there a good reason why hitting the red button doesn't quit the program but seems to do pretty much the same thing as the yellow button?
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The red button closes a window, the yellow button minimises it so it's open, but in the dock.
 
Ian Osborne said:
The red button closes a window, the yellow button minimises it so it's open, but in the dock.
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Basically, my question is why doesn't the red button close the program instead of just closing the window. Is there a benefit to this I'm not seeing.

Maybe I'm just stuck in the Windows paradigm of X closing a program.
 
I've never really used a mac, prefer linux. It seems to suit me. I would cuddle it if I could.
 
HarryKeogh said:
Basically, my question is why doesn't the red button close the program instead of just closing the window. Is there a benefit to this I'm not seeing.

Maybe I'm just stuck in the Windows paradigm of X closing a program.
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Closing a program is easy enough. Just press Command-Q or right-click on the program's icon in the dock, and choose 'Quit' from the contextual menu. The buttons on the window operate the window. The options on the program icon operate the program...
 
CFLarsen said:
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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True. And so far you've been wrong two times...so you're still not right.

1. Color isn't the only visual clue

2. It's not MMN. From your link...Mystery meat navigation is a term coined and popularized by author, web designer, and usability analyst Vincent Flanders to describe user interfaces (especially in websites) in which it is inordinately difficult for users to discern the destinations of navigational hyperlinks—or, in severe cases, even to determine where the hyperlinks are.
 
HarryKeogh said:
True. And so far you've been wrong two times...so you're still not right.

1. Color isn't the only visual clue
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Color is the only visual clue until the user acts.

Bad usability.

HarryKeogh said:
2. It's not MMN. From your link...Mystery meat navigation is a term coined and popularized by author, web designer, and usability analyst Vincent Flanders to describe user interfaces (especially in websites) in which it is inordinately difficult for users to discern the destinations of navigational hyperlinks—or, in severe cases, even to determine where the hyperlinks are.
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Mystery meat navigation is not restricted to links.
 
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