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The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by monkin »

jb1991 wrote: post #41
monkin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 on that, I’m using iPad Pro as my only device for design & code for the last 9 months, and I couldn’t be happier. I moved to it after using over the years different MacBooks Pro and Mini’s. Yet, it’s not for everyone and many will find limitations that are impossible to live with. I am looking forward to the next version of iPad OS to see what else they will improve. :)

What kind of coding are you doing on the iPad?

Front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) and back-end (Go). Everything using Blink Shell + AWS EC2 instance. Blink is single most used app by me on an iPad (37 hours last week) with Safari (36 hours last week).

And yes, I like to work directly in the cloud that I use to deploy my sites. :)

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by monkin »

sb636 wrote: post #36
monkin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 on that, I’m using iPad Pro as my only device for design & code for the last 9 months, and I couldn’t be happier. I moved to it after using over the years different MacBooks Pro and Mini’s. Yet, it’s not for everyone and many will find limitations that are impossible to live with. I am looking forward to the next version of iPad OS to see what else they will improve. :)

Whats your development environment & workflow like? I've been considering making the switch.

I wrote a small piece a month ago, maybe this will help you in some way: https://dev.to/monkin/using-ipad-pro-for-work-2dbe it’s mostly accurate, but I made a switch from Linode to AWS this month.

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by dreamcompiler »

m463 wrote: post #26
raiyu wrote: post #2

The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…

I use macos to read mail. They have been chipping away at mail bit by bit. I have always used it in what's now called "classic layout" - message list above, current message below, sidebar with accounts/mailboxes. In the message list, I could choose what columns were shown, how wide they were and in what order. I could just click on the top of a column to sort one way, click again to sort another. This would let me fi…

I switched to Thunderbird because of this and because of the serious data loss bug in Apple Mail in Catalina [0]. Thunderbird is kind of terrible but at least it's dependably terrible.

[0] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by traceroute66 »

I must say I struggle to show sympathy for this Apple bashing blog post.

Just look at the screenshot they post to illustrate their point. Its almost as if they have deliberately configured their system to make a point.

The resolution is obscenely large (sorry, don't know the tech term).

They have all their finder windows configured to use large icons. Seriously ?!? Only pure beginners do that.

Their longwinded rant is likely more to do with their lack of Mac experience than the actual OSX UI.

I use OS X a lot. There's nothing seriously wrong with the experience. Its better than what Windows or Linux UI's have to offer (especially Linux UIs which all look like a poor attempt at copying OS X UI).

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by anthk »

kome wrote: post #16
raiyu wrote: post #2

The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…

> "that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware?" is a 5 year old computer old?

I am still using an AMD Turion era laptop, commenting to this thread from it.

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by anthk »

coldtea wrote: post #28
kome wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware?" is a 5 year old computer old?

Personal computing has existed since say 1977. Viable personal computing since 1981. GUI personal computing for the masses since 1993 or so. That's 40 years with a conservative estimate. 5 years is 12.5% of the history of personal computing. So kinda yes.

No.

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by Jtsummers »

conradev wrote: post #33
skohan wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I feel like I want fullsreen almost never. Even on a 13" laptop, almost all of my workflows involve having at least two applications open and at least occasionally having both of them visible at the same time

You can have two apps in full screen mode side by side I personally really enjoy full screen mode when using my laptop undocked

Full screen and split screen have become my default modes of using almost everything on macOS. It's a pleasant, generally better focused, way of interacting. I just wish it were richer like the tiling WMs I used on Linux. Maybe not as useful on a laptop (due to screen size and my aging eyes), but when attached to a high res monitor it would be nice to be able to split the screen into quarters, at least, instead of halves.

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by approxim8ion »

kome wrote: post #16
raiyu wrote: post #2

The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…

> "that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware?" is a 5 year old computer old?

It shouldn't be considered old at all. Using a 5-year old laptop right now, and I don't see much that needs upgrading.

Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

mrkstu wrote: post #24
ricg wrote: post #9

I'm not too fond of the extra spacing and padding on Big Sur either. It reduces information density. All in preparation for a MacBook Touch?

Or making room for a device that runs either OS and making the transition less jarring. Though I suppose a MacBook touch (M1x) would already be able to run iOS apps, theoretically, and it would just help the apps themselves, rather than the OS, fit in.

>Though I suppose a MacBook touch (M1x) would already be able to run iOS apps, theoretically

Nothing theoretical at all, the M1 Macs already run iPhone and iPad apps. [0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ (bottom of the page)

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