Macbook $1299 "Up to 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor"
Macbook Air $899 "Up to 2.2GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor"
Seems like a big step down in processing power at a higher price.
The new MacBook
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Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…
I wish I was able to right click a folder and get an option "open terminal here" and then terminal opens and directory changes to the current selected folder. Is this available currently that I'm not aware of ? Else, make it easy to copy the path.... Just like the windows explorer does.
Else, make it easy to copy the path
You can drag the file or folder (from the title bar or file list) icon icon into a terminal window and the path of that file/folder will be written to the command line. Not quite the same, but very useful (and a feature I often miss in Windows).
edit: I was mistaken about dragging files/folders into the Windows CLI, I was thinking about something else.
Re: The new MacBook
#614Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?
My guess: the power brick will have ports on it. That would solve several problems nicely.
Doesn't look like it, but of course it's entirely possible. With USB-C not being an Apple thing, I fully expect elegant chargers, hubs and docks to solve this.
But it'd have been nice to get it out of the box, as it's an additional $50-150 depending on how fancy/slim/functional you want your new charger to be, at which point choosing it over the MBA with 8gb/256gb with a few hours extra battery life and an extra inch seems even less interesting.
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#615This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…
Random story from last week, and my experience with Apple software. I don't use Apple products too often, but I was downloading some apps for a family members ipod touch 4g (latest model being 5g). The 4g only supports up to iOS 6, and nearly every app I tried downloading on the device gave an error saying it required iOS 7 and it couldn't be installed. I thought that was strange, I used most of these apps before on…
Because they are trying to nudge you into upgrading. Lets face it, the fact that Apple ruthlessly kills hardware after 3-4 years is both a benefit to Apple (sells more hardware) and developers (don't have to support old versions of the OS). Though, as a consumer sometimes it makes it difficult to know if you're buying a dud (iPod Touch 4th gen) vs something that'll have a long happy life (iPad 2nd Gen)
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I don't know anyone who uses a wired mouse anymore. Especially on a laptop.
I don't understand why anyone uses a wire less mouse. You have a device that's utterly useless except in close proximity to its parent, why wouldn't you just plug it in and never have to charge it?
> You have a device that's utterly useless except in close proximity to its parent, why wouldn't you just plug it in and never have to charge it?
Wireless mice aren't convenient to keep plugged in with many laptops in many carrying cases/bags/etc, and having to plug it in increases the set up time before useful interaction. So, for laptops typically used on-the-go, I see them as a negative.
And, mice can be useful fairly distant from a CPU; they usually aren't useful far from the keyboard (which can also be wireless) and, depending on the display size, may need to be close to the display.
I mean, its not like we live in the era when most computer use involves switching disks or other similar activities that require physical interaction with the CPU case, so there's no particular requirement that the CPU needs to be that close to the keyboard/mouse for the setup to be useful.
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Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…
Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…
Two features that Windows has that Finder doesn't, and annoy me all the time in my workflow are:
1)Finder search refuses to show the path for the files except in the status bar. So you can't sort by path.
2) Finder won't tell you the resolution of images.
In general, Explorer has way more columns in the Details view than Finder.
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...that for an additional fee (paid to your carrier), can broadcast a local wifi signal
Is that even true any more with iOS 8? I don't pay anything on AT&T to use my phone as a personal hotspot, whether connecting via BT or Wifi.
Wait, when did this happen with AT&T?
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How about showing the actual filesystem? Instead of some restricted fictional view? For example, how the hell do you get to /tmp from the Finder? What's with the stupid column per directory level? This is an extremely bad use of display space. Haven't used Windows in a long time, and the equivalent in Linux is useless. (Or, more precisely, I don't use it.) But there are a number of irritations that have been there fo…
Cmd+Shift+G then type /tmp
How did I not know this? I've always run the open command in the terminal for hidden folders.
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Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…
I personally swear by Total Commander[0] (previously Windows Commander). [0] http://www.ghisler.com/
I was going to ask if you were Russian, then I noticed your username.
Most TC fans I know are Russian, and most Russians I know are TC fans.