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Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by riobard »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

as if build quality, aesthetics, user experience, happiness, etc are worthless

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by brudgers »

ikitat wrote: post #8
andreadallera wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

ctrl-d Emacs keybindings work just about everywhere on a Mac.

Even among experienced computer users, emacs is a bit esoteric.

How intuitive are Emacs bindings for the typical Mac Owner?

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

jensnockert wrote: post #16

While OS X is generally not very customizable, keybindings are generally good and/or changable. Try modifying DefaultKeyBinding.dict or if that is not enough, KeyRemap4Macbook.

Sure I could do that... I mean, I can remap everything on linux too. But I don't need to do that because the keys do what I expect them to. That's my point.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by adsr »

Hm, cmd + x does cut. Just not on files in Finder, the reason I suspect is the lack of a "forcing function" in such a case. It would for example be possible to lose files by mistakingly hit cmd + x. For other operations like this, (quitting without saving, emptying the trash etc) you get a question asking you to confirm.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

andreadallera wrote: post #4
towndrunk wrote: post #2

Learn to use Google and you can solve all those problems. These same type of articles have hashed out over and over.

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

Learn to use the keyboard shortcuts for moving around a line. It's a bit weird at first since they are chorded, but the advantage is that you don't have to leave the main keys so it's a little faster in general and you get better line navigation (at least I have not found similar navigation in Linux).

Also use iTerm2. I don't count the fact that I have to replace the default terminal as a minus since I have to do this for Linux too.

As for why I love my MBP. Sleep mode that works, spotlight, time machine, generally good GUI, unix is still there, really good build quality (I don't worry about it copping a bit of abuse since it's not plastic and does not warp when I pick t up with one hand), mag safe, multi touch trackpad and sometimes I come across an app from an indie that is quite frankly delightful. Eg Capo, Disco (when I still used CDRs), Delicious Library. You just don't see great apps on Linux.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

adsr wrote: post #24

Hm, cmd + x does cut. Just not on files in Finder, the reason I suspect is the lack of a "forcing function" in such a case. It would for example be possible to lose files by mistakingly hit cmd + x. For other operations like this, (quitting without saving, emptying the trash etc) you get a question asking you to confirm.

Yes, it does normally cut, but not in finder. I don't see how could you lose files by cutting - on dolphin (KDE) if i cut a file and then don't paste it the only thing that happens is that dolphin notifies me of that (rendering the icon grayish) and, if i close it and open it up again, the file is still there, still grayish.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by Anechoic »

brudgers wrote: post #22
ikitat wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ctrl-d Emacs keybindings work just about everywhere on a Mac.

Even among experienced computer users, emacs is a bit esoteric. How intuitive are Emacs bindings for the typical Mac Owner?

By the same token, how many of the OP's complaints are really a problem for the typical Mac owner?
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