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OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Nemisis7654 wrote: post #47

I have been a Windows user since I started using computers. I am thinking of purchasing a Macbook Air. As a young programmer (going into fifth year of college), would anyone recommend this laptop?

YMMV but I'm using an Air as my main dev machine at the moment. I bought it just because I need a mac for a few things but I seem to have ended up using it all the time. I'm used to having very small laptops though. I would say you definitely need the 128GB version, I originally partitioned mine into two 64GB partitions (I was going to put Ubuntu on the other which turned out to be very hard, but that's another story) and found that the 64GB filled up from just the OS plus the applications I use for development.

Right now I've got it plugged into a huge cinema display (which I have on loan for 6 months, it's very nice) but I have also used it quite a lot as a laptop.

I'm mostly writing Python here, so no long compiles. I imagine that would be a killer if you were working on C++ projects...

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by bengl3rt »

I'll echo what I said on the Siracusa thread: Has everyone managed to overlook how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors?

Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to the correct monitor. Full Screen Apps are similarly useless on multiple monitors - regardless of which monitor the window originates on, clicking the full screen button returns it to whatever display is designated "primary". Even worse, while you're in full screen on one display, the others become useless as it blocks them out with Apple's new favorite canvas texture. Why? At first I thought all this was intentional and that Apple was leaving multi-monitor users in the dust to focus on Macs that are very close to iOS devices (11" Macbook Air comes to mind), but today they also announced a new Cinema Display that lets you daisy chain two monitors off a single Thunderbolt port. Clearly it's still a mode of operation they intend to support for some time - so why have they crippled it so horribly in this release?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by masklinn »

ugh wrote: post #113
masklinn wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The App Store license allows you to install apps on all Macs you own or control yeah I saw that in the Ars review. But I think your iTunes account can only be active on 5 machines, so you'd have to burn the dmg to a disk and install it on the supplementary machines (or remove auth) > that would include his wife’s Mac iTunes can switch accounts trivially, so that's not a problem: open his account on his wife's mac,…

iTunes does activations. The Mac App Store does not. You log into the Mac App Store with your Apple ID, that has nothing to do with iTunes. It wouldn’t make any sense to allow you to only activate five Macs for the App Store, given the license. edit: Hey dude who downvoted, I made a factual claim. I have no problem with downvoting wrong factual claims but if you do you should at least clarify what is wrong.

I did not downvote you, but you're wrong all the same: MAS is a frontend to a sub-section of the iTunes Store. Similar to the iOS AppStore (which is a part of iTunes on computers, but a separate store on iPhones or iPads). In fact, if you have a tracing firewall you can see it send requests to itunes's servers.

And as far as I know MAS does the exact same thing as iTunes: you can authorize an account on 5 machines at a time.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by evilduck »

dgallagher wrote: post #94
Nemisis7654 wrote: post #47

I have been a Windows user since I started using computers. I am thinking of purchasing a Macbook Air. As a young programmer (going into fifth year of college), would anyone recommend this laptop?

From my personal experience, I liked coding Python with Textmate on a MBA, but not Objective-C with Xcode. Py/Text didn't take up much space and was easy to work with. Obj-C/Xcode demand lots of real-estate space, so the tiny screen was a hinderance. So I'd advise that if you have a language that's 'tiny' and a minimalist editor, you'll probably do fine on a MBA. If the language and editor take up lots of space, I'd…

FYI, the 13in MBA has the exact same screen resolution as the stock 15in MBP, and the 11in MBA is comparable to the 13in MBP (different ratio though), so both models can basically show the same amount of stuff on the screen (unless you were preferring something like a large iMac for XCode).

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by gordonc »

phillmv wrote: post #23

Can anyone tell me if homebrew still works on it? What about macvim, rvm, mysql binaries, etc? Waiting is always the hardest part :P.

With every new OSX version update I just assume it's gonna take a solid 8 hours to get rails running properly again...

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by vito »

bengl3rt wrote: post #152

I'll echo what I said on the Siracusa thread: Has everyone managed to overlook how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors? Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to the correct monit…

I wish they would go the xmonad route, and simply treat each display as an independent "workspace container". Being able to switch independently (and still use the other display when using a fullscreen app) is a huge productivity gain.
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