I really don't like the always on top menus for one program. This doesn't translate well when you have dual monitors. Just what program am I running? I have to look at the main monitor. and when you have a bunch of windows open, the windows you are seeing may have absolutely nothing to do with the menu on top.
Unfortunately, I don't have a full keyboard with numpad. Excuse me? Even in smaller keyboard, where are the good buttons page up, page down, home and end? They don't exist! Fortunately there is fn-up arrow for page up, fn-down arrow for page down. There is Ctrl-left arrow for home, Ctrl-right arrow for end. Is Apple supposed to be as few button as possible? Here is what I see at the left side of my short space bar: fn, control, option, command. Excuse me?? Why so many? Ok, once upon a time there is even the wacky Apple button.
If you need to insert a CD (or floppy) in old days, how do you eject it? no button! In floppy days I am supposed to drag it to the garbage can. How do I do it now. Ah, now there is an eject button on the upper right of keyboard. Excuse me?
The mouse: just ONE button. How do you right-click? Excuse me? Control-click. Did some one tell me it is a friendly product? how the hell am I suppose to know. Fortunately for the Magic Mouse, you can tap on the right side and even scroll like a GOOD-HOW-IT-IS-SUPPOSED-TO-WORK wheel mouse.
Ok talk about the wheel on the mouse, or the imaginary one on the Magic Mouse. Let's scroll. EXCUSE ME? when I scroll down the text moves the OPPOSITE direction I expected. Fortunately this is also fixable.
Ok, let's play with Unix prompt. I am glad I can do vi, emacs, grep, etc. Ooh it even have java and python built in? Even ruby. Ok what about cc. Not there. HELLO???
Ok, what's the equivalent for Notepad in Mac. Ah, TextEdit. Ok, let me for fun type up an html file... ok, < b > hello < /b >. Gee, how do I open it from the prompt? Sure I can vi but I like to do File->Save and other UI feature ok? Ok, it is "open -e foo.html" Wait it is wysiwyg! I want to see the html! Nope, can't do that! I need to download a wysiwyg editor.
Ok, Mac is supposed to be the premier awesome graphical platform. How do I screen shot? can't alt-print screen. ah, command-shift-3, HELLO? How intuitive is that. How do I make a simple picture, something like paintbrush in windoze. HELLO? NOTHING OUT OF THE BOX. Although that Preview thing can let me annotate the screenshot.
I want to like the Macintosh like the rest of the world.
How to write a Mac program? XCode is a free download. Good. Objective-C? Yuck. and no sample programs come with it? HELLO?
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It took me sometime to get used to it, word processing still sucks but the virus attack part is really important for someone like me who don't know jack...
You can still drag the CD to the trash can to eject, just like old school Mac.
You're right about the mouse. For programmers you will need to plug in a Logitech mouse to be happy.
There is gcc.
Watch out for the Mac file system, it is stupid like windows where cap file names are the same. e.g. hello.txt is Hello.txt
You will love the Mac like I do once you get used to it. The Mac is far superior than Windows. Windows is almost unusable garbage.
The touch pad is AMAZING and you will never need to scroll by shortcuts. 3 fingers flick will get you to the top.
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