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Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

seb wrote: post #9
andreadallera wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3... Hm, doesn't look like that.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3...

I should have used the /sarcasm tag maybe....

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by seb »

andreadallera wrote: post #7
petrilli wrote: post #6

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3 times the price? Seriously?

There's links to both a laptop PC and a MacBook with similar specs in the article, the laptop PC is 749€, the macbook 2149€. EDIT : to reply to the comment below... I don't know about weight but battery time on my crappy current laptop (2 years old) is around 4 hours and a half, I think because I run linux (on windows it was around 2 hours). One of my colleagues recently changed the battery on his MacBook pro because…

They do not have similar specs. They might have some of the same components but resolution, battery lifetime and weight are all better on the MacBook Pro. If you just look at the processor, ram and hard drive then every non apple computer will be cheaper.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

parbo wrote: post #12

Ctrl+d is the emacs bindning for delete, itworks just about everywhere on OSX. I do agree with the general slowness (beachballs galore).

Yep, also fun + backspace would do but I'd really really like to have my DEL key back. I'm used to it, I love it, it's everywhere, I don't see the point of taking that back.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by jensnockert »

seb wrote: post #13
andreadallera wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's links to both a laptop PC and a MacBook with similar specs in the article, the laptop PC is 749€, the macbook 2149€. EDIT : to reply to the comment below... I don't know about weight but battery time on my crappy current laptop (2 years old) is around 4 hours and a half, I think because I run linux (on windows it was around 2 hours). One of my colleagues recently changed the battery on his MacBook pro because…

They do not have similar specs. They might have some of the same components but resolution, battery lifetime and weight are all better on the MacBook Pro. If you just look at the processor, ram and hard drive then every non apple computer will be cheaper.

I doubt the 17" will ever be cheaper, but the 13"/15" can be a pretty good deal imho. Especially since the resale value is usually much higher than the PC.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

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parbo wrote: post #12

Ctrl+d is the emacs bindning for delete, itworks just about everywhere on OSX. I do agree with the general slowness (beachballs galore).

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There is... problem is, there is also another key called "command", or "apple", which most of the times does what the ctrl key does on a pc. But not always, so you have to keep switching.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by Anechoic »

There is NO del key

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Apple key instead of CTRL

I for one like it this way because it creates a clear delineation between OS/program key bindings and remote key bindings - for example, Win cntl-key combos that stop working when SSHing with Putty because control-key combos are being reserved fot the SSH sessions, etc. YMMV. (and BTW, the Command key came long before the Windows key)

You can’t cut a file on Finder

You can copy and paste files with the Finder. Given how many people I've seen lose or corrupt files using Window's cut, I think this is a good thing.

if you want to delete a file you have to use the option in the context menu to do that.

Command-delete

needed a good 30 seconds for the terminal to start

That is one seriously fubar'd Mac. On my ~4 years old Mac mini it takes all of 2 seconds.

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