I’m going to get a community bashing for this… but I have to come out with these. I’ve been holding them in too long. These are some of the issues I’ve found, only THIS morning.
- The edges. Macbook’s edges are brutal. Try sitting with the laptop on your lap while you’re laying down in bed. Your wrists die.
- Heat. Hot. Heat. Laptop is so freaking hot when you put it on your lap.
- When using the computer… If you’re in a folder of images, and you double click on one to view it, no way to just go to the next one.
- There are no breadcrums in Finder, unless you switch the view.
- When dragging and dropping a selection of files, you can’t drag by clicking on the the empty space (that’s clearly selected), you must drag by clicking on the filename(s).
- Mouse movement is choppy, and it behaves really weird. It slows down as you get closer to things. Even after I installed iMouseFix, it doesnt work very well.
- Shortcuts. What are the shortcuts for things? So far Im back to basics, I only know how to copy, paste, select all and get info.
-The End and Home buttons don’t go to the end of the sentence, go to the end/beginning of the page/paragraph/whatever. How do I go to the end/beginning of a sentence?!?!
-If you have a Finder window open, and click on Finder again, it doesn’t open a new one. Why. Why do you think I would click on the finder icon?
These are just a few of the most infuriating issues. Truth is I like the mac, but I like having a smooth and efficient workflow more. I like using the keyboard as much as possible, without switching to the mouse, and that doesn’t seem a very easy thing to do in a mac. So when I do switch to the mouse, its choppy and it takes me 2 tries to get it to click something. I guess it doesnt help that I spend 8+ hours a day on working on a pc, and come home to the exact same keyboard on a mac. But the point is, I use this only a litle bit, and only when I come home, but it already frustrates me.
I should have gone with my instincts, and bought a PC. Because at the end of the day, I’m a programmer, most of my work involves looking at text. I don’t care (that much) if the graphics of the program I’m using are pretty, or if it has a cool effect, or if the dock icon is amazing. It just has to work. I can’t say Windows is good, at all, just the opposite in fact; I had to learn to work with a busted system. But it was a busted system I knew, and I could work with. I already knew what would crash the computer, and how to fix it. I knew I had to have regular backups cuz you never knew when it was going to blow up. To some people that’s unacceptable, but really, which of the two evils do you rather have? the one you know or the one you don’t?
So yeah. I guess I’m not “open” enough to the mac learning experience. Or whatever. I just want a damn system I can work with and not get madly frustrated at 3 times an hour.
