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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

notduncansmith wrote: post #357
issa wrote: post #318

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My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

I use Spectacle for this, simplest thing I've found so far: https://www.spectacleapp.com

Spectacle is great, but am I the only one who has to restart it periodically when it stops responding to keyboard shortcuts?

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by hirsin »

komali2 wrote: post #591
hota_mazi wrote: post #584

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> Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? Not any more. Mac OS looks and feels very antiquated compared to Windows today. As a developer, Windows has caught up to MacOS for the shells and beats it in pretty much all the other areas (UI of the OS, keyboard shortcuts everywhere, great file manager(s), much more productivity tools available, etc...). And of course, Windows laptops are an…

Can you tell me more about your bash setup? It seems silly, but to me two big annoyances are 1. I can't figure out how to easily open up the bash/ubuntu thing where I need it. I'd love to just have a dedicated "github stuff" folder that it opens into by default (and can edit). I always seem to put stuff where bash ubuntu isn't allowed to touch, or I'm manually CDing around until I find that weird place where the C dr…

1. I put a cmd link in my taskbar, which opens to my Repos folder, and then launches bash (which will open in that folder under /mnt/c). Or just do `ln -s /mnt/c/My/Repo ~/GithubStuff` and have a symlink from Ubuntu land into your Windows drive.

2. Colors are better supported in the CU coming out in 3 weeks, and transparency + copy/paste can be setup via the file menu (right click on the logo in the command prompt title bar and go to Properties).

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by gdubs »

Interesting - buried in there was the bit of strategy on the part of Apple, expecting software to take advantage of parallel GPUs, and that not really panning-out in the high-end film production apps.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by Recurecur »

valuearb wrote: post #469
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Actually it would serve Apple very well. Most of Apple's profit these days comes from iOS devices, and more macOS in the hands of users would definitely lead to more iOS adoption. Also, systems would be available to suit power users - Apple currently offers exactly zero in that space. Power users influence many buying decisions beyond their own systems. It would be good if macOS could be seriously used for hard-core…

Apple's Mac business is the most profitable PC business in the world, they make more profits from Macs than the rest of the PC makers in the world. They are 7% worldwide by units, about 17% by revenues (ASP around $1200 vs. industry $500) and margins of 15% vs. industry 2-3%. It's a $25B business that's steadily taken significant market share from Windows/Linux over the last decade. They should give this up, why?

No one said they should "give this up". If Apple's hardware is good enough to outshine whatever competition, it will continue to sell. Plus, they could easily restrict who they license the OS to - perhaps only to a few high quality OEMs and end users who'd just build a Hackintosh instead anyhow.

I'm certainly not advocating giving macOS away or selling it cheaply either. It's worth pointing out that every 2,000,000 units of $500 macOS would be $1 billion as well - which could quickly come close to the margin on that $25B.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by vikiomega9 »

csomar wrote: post #178

Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? I mean Windows is good, but nowhere good as OS X. And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). Also god forbid you have a problem (especially a har…

I think literally the long battery life and the hardware reliability over the years has been my one reason to dismiss other laptops.

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Post by PascLeRasc »

mcculley wrote: post #431
blktiger wrote: post #378

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If they are all developing with Xcode I bet they also have a server farm for distributed builds. That said, why would OSX devs need more that 16GB of RAM? It's not like they are going to be running virtual machines/docker images. Xcode isn't _that_ much of a memory hog.

What are they building Xcode server farms out of?

Apple Stores /s

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by marssaxman »

komali2 wrote: post #596
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I never understood the whole obsession with running applications fullscreen. The whole point of a multitasking OS is to run multiple apps at the same time. If you need to run your apps fullscreen you probably need a bigger monitor.

For the other perspective - it actually boggles my mind when I see coworkers with one desktop open with 3-4 windows kinda mushed all around, different sizes, etc. Like, you paid a lot of money for that good display , why are you not using it?! How can you stand having to scroll all over a window to see something, when you could just fullscreen it? Is it that they need to context switch quickly? Why not just use multi…

I am using it, that's the whole point of having multiple windows open. Each window shows whatever is relevant about that context, and it takes up no more space than necessary so I can have as many sources of information visible as I want.

Also, it's nice for spacial awareness. I feel a little bit lost when a window takes over the entire screen and blanks everything else out.

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Post by scholia »

jolux wrote: post #647
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You never asked for Solitaire or Freecell either. And you never asked for Notepad or Calculator or whatever. Did you have mini-hysterics about Solitaire being bundled, and did you waste hours worrying about it or removing it? What about the pernicious inclusion of Edie Brickell's Good Times in Windows 95? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc Candy Crush Saga was actually one of the benefits of Windows 10 t…

This is idiocy. Solitaire and Freecell are originally not video games, and nobody is making money off selling them. Candy Crush Saga, on the other hand...well, I don't think I need to explain to you who benefits from having it preinstalled on Windows.

This is idiocy. Freecell was originally sold as part of a games pack for Windows, and Candy Crush Saga is a highly-rated game that's otherwise available from the Windows Store. Thousands of people have downloaded it.

The Good Times video in Windows 95 also sold Edie a lot of CDs, but it would be equally stupid to criticize that. In both cases, Microsoft is providing something entertaining that demonstrates some benefit of the operating system.

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Post by Prefinem »

megakwood wrote: post #376
issa wrote: post #318

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My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

There is a great app called Hyperdock that does exactly what you want with window snapping. It works so perfectly that I sometimes forget that it's not a native feature of OS X. Not sure about your window size problems with external monitors, I find that OS X handles this amazingly well

I forgot I had Hyperdock on my last Mac and when I got my new one I thought it was broken because it wouldn't snap / scoll maximize.

It has probably been my favorite utility for Mac

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