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Re: The new MacBook

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Post by tambourine_man »

tmd83 wrote: post #921
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…

Fairly new OSX user and I kind of hate finder. My first gripe is of course the feeling that no one cares about these basic conveniences @apple. Some of these are also found from other people's comment but I want to highlight that they also matter for me. 1. The fact that most file browser has editable auto-complete location field. 2. That it doesn't show the size of the selected files in status bar. 3. That when you…

3 - Show Inspector: command-option-i

6 - command-c, command-option-v

7 - Don't know if that's what you mean, but you can hide everything on the view menu.

8 - If you mean spotlight index, yes

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by jhasse »

Xixi wrote: post #708
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…

I usually just use the Terminal, but when I need to open the current directory in the Finder I just type `open .`, one of the most useful (and unknown) shortcut of OSX.

Btw: It's `xdg-open .` on Linux and `explorer .` on Windows. Very useful indeed :)

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by cableshaft »

welly wrote: post #922
guelo wrote: post #617

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Two features that Windows has that Finder doesn't, and annoy me all the time in my workflow are: 1)Finder search refuses to show the path for the files except in the status bar. So you can't sort by path. 2) Finder won't tell you the resolution of images. In general, Explorer has way more columns in the Details view than Finder.

Re: point 2. http://i.imgur.com/LNRaPK7.png It does. Re: point 1. True but I'm not sure how that would work as in the details view you're showing the files available in a particular directory. How would it sort by path? How does it work in Windows?

It does show resolutions, but it's terribly inconsistent. A little more than half the time it didn't show the resolutions for me, for files that definitely would have resolutions shown in Windows Explorer.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by brixon »

smenko wrote: post #870
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 used to love the physical cabinet I had in the fifties. The sound of it opening, the actual rustle of the paper under your fingers - these _were_ your files, with real letters written on real paper, not some representation of them in a window on a screen. They don't make finders like that any more....

Except when Nancy was filing. I swear that she did not know her ABC's.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

cweiss wrote: post #573
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #510

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To me the biggest case is going places where I might have an unexpected peripheral need. For instance, it's not uncommon for someone to need to transfer me some files with a flash drive. If I were to buy this thing, I'd have to carry a USB Type-A dongle all the time , just in case. Rather than have say... an extra millimeter of thickness, and the USB port just built right in.

I'm fairly sure it wont be too long before they come out with USB/USB-C flash drives. I've already seen several USB/Micro-USB drives.

Sure, but what will be the adoption rate? Do people have to have both or drives with both ports? For how long will you be more likely to see standard USB flash drives than USB-C ones? What will the cost of USB-C flash drives be compared to standard USB ones?

All important questions to answer before you walk out the door without a dongle.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by XorNot »

Less ports is not what I want in a laptop. At all.

Dongles and whatnot are a plague on portability, and take up more space then whatever gains are made in the hardware usually.

The laptop I want? One which has it's entire power supply, and the 110/240VAC cable and plug able to coil up inside it so I can literally just carry "the laptop" and not have to worry about chargers.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by laacz »

Does USB type-C in Macbook mean that on all other slim devices (namely - iPad and iPhone) lightning will be replaced with USB?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by rblstr »

cheesedoodles wrote: post #525

Something that doesn't seem to get mentioned in the comments is the placing of the trackpad; so near the keyboard. This was one the first things I recognised as a potential err. I once had a ASUS notebook which had a similar design. The problem was that my tip of one or both thumbs or part of it, often touched the touchpad in a fashion that it selected text if working in a editor. This would happen so fast that my ty…

I'm fairly sure they disable the trackpad while typing
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