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Re: The new MacBook

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Post by gcr »

banachtarski wrote: post #608
nkoren wrote: post #261

This 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…

OpenGL compatibility is still 4.1... I like linux, I like Apple hardware, but as a graphics/game programmer, I find developing native OSX applications to be a miserable process.

Intel integrated graphics on bleeding edge Arch Linux here. I'm stuck at OpenGL 3.3. I can only use shader language GLSL 1.30.

And people say Intel has the best OpenGL support... :) Or maybe nvidia fares better?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by Tehnix »

notsony wrote: post #628
geophile wrote: post #579

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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…

~/Library/Application Support Keeps getting hidden and you have to set a preference option via the command line to show it... only for it get hidden on the next OS update. Very frustrating!

Right click in your home folder -> Show View Options -> Show Library Folder.

That said, I preferred that they never removed it, but for the common user, they wont ever need it.

To get to it, you can also hold down Option when pressing the Go menu item.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by muro »

JBiserkov wrote: post #575
nsxwolf wrote: post #561

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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 use http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/ on linux, which is pretty-much a clone of total commander. I still like total commander better.

As for open source - this one is, but it's written in delphi (pascal?) which makes it hard to contribute. Then again, it works well, so not sure what to contribute anyway.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by sprawl_ »

warfangle wrote: post #689
nsxwolf wrote: post #561

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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…

>what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? When bash is more useful than finder, there's probably an issue. Case in point: not being able to open a specific path (unless I bookmark it) Case in point: when I open my home directory in finder, I don't necessarily want the directory tree that was last expanded to still be expanded. For directories with a large…

-shift+command+G to go directly to a path

-Press return to rename the selected file

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by veidr »

krapp wrote: post #333
ben174 wrote: post #305

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I don't know anyone who uses a wired mouse anymore. Especially on a laptop.

I still use a wired mouse and a wired keyboard for my laptop (since I prefer the size and of a standard keyboard to the little rubber chiclets HP calls a keyboard.) It has literally all the advantages of a wireless setup, without ever having to worry about batteries. This trend in laptop design towards providing fewer ports for what seems to be little more than aesthetics seems a bit backwards.

> It has literally all the advantages of a wireless setup

...except for the main advantage, which is the wireless setup's entire reason for existence?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by emehrkay »

nickysielicki wrote: post #423
Finbarr wrote: post #308

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Seems like there are some new $79 adapters to split out the USB-C port into power, usb and av[1]/vga[2]. [1] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av... [2] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...

I'm sorry but when you ship a machine with ONE PORT for the purposes of charging and peripherals, this absolutely needs to be in the box. Nickel and $80'ering me on a $1400 computer is ridiculous. I'll stick with my thinkpad.

Didn't MacBooks come with those connectors before? It's like when iPods and iPhones used to come with the desktop stands

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/11147888116_9be011e0b1_n...

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by mrinterweb »

koof wrote: post #92

Man, there's something about a gold laptop that just makes me want to never give money to a company again.

Considering the $10,000+ price tag on the gold Apple Watch, I'm surprised their gold MacBook isn't priced for high-end luxury consumer.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by Tehnix »

I see a lot of people hating much on the one port. Arguably, I wouldn't have minded just one on each side, but to be honest, I operate all most all of my connected things wirelessly. Bluetooth mouse, bluetooth keyboard, wifi sync of iOS devices etc.

If I had the use for more things connected, I'm either sitting down and connecting an external screen, in the same place always or I'm not doing it for long enough time for power to be an issue. Thus, a dock or dongle at that place would be natural (hell, I use one atm just to convert from HDMI to mini-DVI).

I see this as a good and pleasant move to pressure more things to go wireless. Still waiting for Airtame[0] to get out, so I can get rid of that annoying cable from monitors to my Air :)

The one gripe I do have, is the rather low GHz on those CPUs :( Max of 1.3GHz? Ugh...

[0] https://airtame.com (I know other products like it exist)

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by tormeh »

hrabago wrote: post #576
nsxwolf wrote: post #561

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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'm also curious - what about Windows Explorer makes it a painful experience? I learned how to use computers using DOS/Windows and it's what my idea of "correct" is. I'm curious about the other perspective.

For me? Lack of tabs and lack of right-click open-in-terminal. I don't use Windows much anymore, but I remember those, so I guess they're the worst ones. But nevermind the file manager, it's the Windows terminal that really sucks.
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