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Post by surreal »

npinguy wrote: post #225
lucian1900 wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The filesystem is the worst of all modern platforms. It's in dire need of an upgrade, which doesn't appear to be coming.

While I agree, I think Apple's core demographics does not want to think about the file system. There are enough abstractions created by the apps to the point that users don't think about where their files are at all. It's not how I want to operate either, but that's the direction Apple has been heading to for a long time

Although they do seem to be backtracking on this stance with yesterday's iCloud Drive announcement [1], giving access to the filesystem they've been trying to hide away for the last few years

[1] http://m.techradar.com/news/software/applications/apple-chal...

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Post by lostlogin »

bronson wrote: post #144
tachion wrote: post #92

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And what would you like to change in MacBook Air in terms of design? The only thing I can think of are very minor, evolutionary changes, but other than that, this machine is perfect (or very close to it) for what it stands for - very portable computer. On the other hand, there's plenty to do around the OS X.

How about allowing the lid to open 180 degrees? I can't curl up on the couch with my Air nearly as well as I could with my Thinkpad. Or making it so the palm rests don't suck all the heat out of my hands? Or smooth the sharp edge so it doesn't sometimes dig grooves into my wrists? And, ffs, retina? True, the Air is still the best portable laptop going (Intel should be downright ashamed of their Ultrabook fizzle). But…

None of this bothers me in the slightest. But for the love of Christ, move the damned power button. Accidentally hitting that makes me so very sad.

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Post by unfamiliar »

quackerhacker wrote: post #102

The upgrades to Safari look amazing! [0] Less chrome, Javascript benchmarks (impressive), and the spotlight search in the url...nice! I hope Apple changes the zoom button to maximize the screen. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/

Safari is one of the places where the zoom button makes the most sense. Rarely do I want to read text that is the whole screen width.

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Post by unfamiliar »

300 wrote: post #236

Again, I came to the same conclusion like many times before. Apple does have the best hardware (talking about notebooks), but that's where the story ends. I found a combination of MacBook Pro with Linux, as the only good use of Apple hardware.

Completely the opposite for me. Now that I am used to all the pleasantries of OS X, it is painful to try and get anything done on a linux computer. I end up ignoring whatever disaster of a desktop environment is installed and living in the terminal.

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Post by tim333 »

AaronFriel wrote: post #147

I am deeply disappointed by the "development" of OS X. It seems that Apple has long ago gutted their x86 OS group due to dwindling profits and lack of real competition. There are a handful of reasons people buy a Mac, and I would largely put them into three groups: * Students looking for a stable and/or sexy device for their university. * Artists using applications that don't exist on other platforms (or that priorit…

>Microsoft invested in platform features and then didn't sell users on what it could do with Vista.

I think you are focusing on features that are unimportant to most users. People hated Vista because it was so slow, clunky and crashed. I remain amazed that between clicking a folder an seeing a file within it can take about a minute on my friends old Vista machine. I'm also pleasantly surprised on my MacBook that it pretty much never freezes and resumes from sleep in about 2 secs with going wrong unlike any windows machine. What counts for users is how the machine works, not whether the underlying implementation is trendy, I think.

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

rsync wrote: post #93
__david__ wrote: post #33

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How is ⌘` buggy?

I don't know which of the two are "buggy", but command-tab and command-tidle have different behaviors: command-tab will let you toggle back and forth between last two apps - sort of a classic alt-tab behavior from Windows and various UNIX WMs. command-tilde goes through your windows in a stack, in one direction, and you have to modify it with shift to go a different way. Further, if you destroy a window after command…

Thanks for putting your finger on that niggling feeling I've always had that command-tilde isn't quite right. The really obvious difference, of course, is that command-tab gives you a nice preview of what you're about to switch to, helping you make the decision in the first place. command-tilde just dumps you somewhere else and hopes you're not too upset with where you end up.

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Post by virtualritz »

apendleton wrote: post #209
shaan7 wrote: post #207

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Dell XPS Ultrabook with Kubuntu 14.04 here, without any patches or extra settings. 11W consumption with medium screen brightness, works for ~5 hours with normal browsing (occasional compiling) Recognizes all monitors and projectors (even the ones Macs fail at) at my work place. The WiFi just works (TM). You are not using a "Ubuntu laptop". As danford said, just pick a Ubuntu certified machine* and things will just wo…

Sorry, but 5 hours on an ultrabook is not competitive. Current Macbook Airs are rated for 12 hours with normal use, and third-party testing has found 10 to be realistic. demallien is right. Nobody on the Linux side has done this kind of aggressive power engineering for consumer-oriented x86 hardware. Google might, for Chromebooks, but it's not clear how portable that will be to the rest of the ecosystem.

Apple states 9h for a contemporary 13" MBP. Mine (two weeks old) runs for 4h max, if I do any serious work on it. If I switch Wifi off an dim the screen, I can get 6-7h out of it.

The machine is dual boot as I'm using it to develop software that targets both OS X & Linux. I run a Gentoo with all kernel- and other power saving features enabled, on a 2nd partition.

The time I get out of the battery on OS X vs Gentoo is pretty much the same.

What I do is "surf" (FF, mostly text/reading docs, flash blocked etc.) and code (I do a build roughly every 5-10mins that will probably touch 10 sources max).

Build environment matches except for compiler being used (gcc 4.1 on Linux, latest LLVM gcc frontend from XCode on OS X but I would think this is minor).

Bottom line for me: Linux is on par with OS X in terms of time you get out of a MBP, in my case specifically.

Caveat: I dunno ofc, how true this is, generally, if one ran something like a pre-configured Ubuntu kernel.

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Post by spupy »

bluthru wrote: post #116
eurleif wrote: post #80

Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...

Personally, I love that the title bar is gone for a slimmer profile. OS X is already displaying the title in the menubar, and I've always found that top area to be dead space. This should be especially useful for Macbook Air users.

I've never used OS X, but isn't it confusing for the windows to not have titles? To find the window you need, don't you need to look at it's contents - something that sounds clunky to me? It's one of the things I hate most about the file manager in Windows 7.

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Post by mweibel »

crymer11 wrote: post #197

Hopefully they've spent some time on Messages; it's by far the buggiest app of theirs I've used in quite some time.

+1

I hope that they finally fix groupchats across devices. Always have about 5 different conversations with the same 2 people and each message goes seemingly randomly in one conversation.

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Post by spupy »

Joeri wrote: post #40
buckbova wrote: post #14

> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead. I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.

When they switched from the 2d dock to the 3d dock a lot of people said the same thing. I like how apple is slowly reversing their design decisions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the return of the spatial finder ;)

I tried using the spacial feature of Nautilus, a file manager for Linux. What's your usage of a spatial file manager? I couldn't see it being beneficial to my file browsing in any way. Just curious.
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