Comments on: Switching To Mac is Great

By: Schwarzmaler

Schwarzmaler — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:32:25 +0000

With five minutes spent in google you would have found Mac supports both right-mouse click and Windows-like DELETE out of the box. Just get used to use the CTRL/ALT/CMD-keys. This article truly is a shame and a sign of complete and utter ignorance, if not hired FUD.

By: P

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:38:15 +0000

I am posting this on a MacBook Pro I bought a year ago. I would say what I find most irritating about the OSX experience is there is a lack of middle ground between technical nitty gritty (found in the UNIX back-end) and the front-end UI, which Windows does quite well. One commenter stated that they liked OSX because they felt it knew their way around a computer. I find that almost paradoxical considering the entire marketing campaign is ease of use. You have one miserly Systems Preferences interface from which to control and manipulate your system. I was trying to access an RS232 device on this computer and it was near impossible. I didn’t have the time or patience to work in UNIX and there is certainly no way to get it done in the OS itself. (If there is, let me know) It is as if the entire reason to use a computer is to go on MSN, write your blog, post a YouTube video and compose your next novel in Starbucks. That would be my primary grievance. That and I hate that it doesn’t close the process when I close the window. That bothers me too.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:43:17 +0000

Discussion closed as required by Godwin's Law. Thanks to all for participating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law

By: Ashgrove

Ashgrove — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:17:22 +0000

Interesting story (if one can call it a story). Person buys Mac (does not bother to specify which one: by the behavior of the “Delete” button, I’m assuming it was a notebook, but it could have been anything, an old Powerbook, a shining Macbook Pro, who knows). Person hastily jumps to the conclusion (without giving any real details) that the experience was a waste of his time.
Well, frankly, bothering to read it and write this summary has been a complete waste of mine. One has to back such a strong statement, and the writer has not deigned to do that –and then feels misunderstood, and claims that people didn’t read what he wrote. What did he write, anyway?
The only thing more appalling than this sorry excuse for a story is the stupidity of the hate comments. Ugh.

By: DougKyle

DougKyle — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:49:44 +0000

Awesome! I ripped through the comments and even at high speed found some that made me laugh. I especially liked the person who canceled their subscription. If I unsubscribed from a blog every time I disagreed with a single post I’d have an empty blog reader to be sure! Maybe I’ll create a blog called “Mac is great” and write mindless praise and lots of “Real mac lovers click on my ad-banner comments”… considering how mindless many of the commenter here are, it would no doubt make me some serious money!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:20:14 +0000

Well, you may want a two button touchpad, but I don;t, so we are even on that one.

Yes, you may not have had more than one virus in 5 years – but how much did you pay to only have 1 virus? $75yr for anti-virus software? $375 for the honor of 1 virus. I paid $0 over 5 years and I had 0 viruses.

Buy what works for you. For my money it is a Mac, has always been a Mac and unless MS actually learns to write a decent OS, it will always be a MAc.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:49:24 +0000

Sorry for the long comment. I had separated it in blocks, but it looks as though comments are parsed and posted as one large paragraph on this site.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:47:40 +0000

I find it very interesting that there are theming sites out there that attempt to mimic the look and feel of the Mac on a Windows (and even Linux/*BSD) PCs. And these aren’t people that are that geeky….these are your average Windows user that is just a little sick and tired of the way things work on their non-Apple computers.

It’s extremely rare to find the opposite. I haven’t found very many Mac users trying to change their look and feel to mimic Windows. Sure, there might be a theme here or there but probably for kicks.

Regardless, this shows that there is demand for Mac OS X. EVen the OSx86 project that tries to put the Intel version of Mac OS X on a stock PC is proof of the demand.

You also mentioned that you preferred the desktop environments found in Linux distributions. That could be because the design of these desktop environments are very Windows-centric by default (menus on every window, task bar at the bottom, etc.), something that you seem very accustomed to. You can take KDE and make it function like a Mac with a universal menubar if you like…that feature has been there for years now. And GNOME will probably be integrating a similar feature in future versions.

I have to genuinely ask: was your Mac purchase a personal one because you wanted one or just a business purchase to write the article? Most people that I know who have switched from a PC to a Mac (especially after being PC users for a long time) have done so because they were OPEN to something different, and in the end enjoyed the experience. It just seems that you didn’t give the Mac a real chance because of your familiarity with the Windows Explorer interface. Heck, I’m even shocked that someone who was open enough to use a Linux distribution would not have given the Mac the same chance. You can still use the OS X Terminal to control the system just as you would in Linux or the BSDs if the Finder is too graphical for you (I do it all the time on both my Mac OS X and Linux computers).

I figure that if you really purchased it for yourself that someone as tech-savvy as yourself would have done your homework and tried it out before purchasing it. This leads me to believe that is was a purchase for the article.

Which now begs the next question: did you _actually_ purchase a Mac for the article or was this some way to generate hits to the site (as was mentioned by some commentors here) from your possible “experience” with the Mac? If it was the latter, congratulations to you I guess. You can also thank Low End Mac (http://www.lowendmac.com) for being so generous to generate the traffic for you.

By: Chuan

Chuan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:55:22 +0000

Hey, does Godwin's Law apply when you start complaining about "Mac Nazis"? Come on. The lack of a 2-button touchpad is already addressed by Apple in its system settings: just leave 2 fingers on the touch pad when you hit the button, and it's equivalent to a right-click. Or if you prefer, tap 2 fingers on the trackpad for a right-click. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304720 Or use One Finger Snap, where holding down the button is the same as a right-click. http://old-jewel.com/onefingersnap/ Sure, I'll miss the 2 buttons when I go back to a Mac laptop from my slow, buggy and vulnerable WinXP Tablet PC, but frankly, having to deal with XP is much more of a dealbreaker than a 1-button touchpad under OS X. And learning a different right-click gesture is a lot less painful and time-consuming than troubleshooting the Tablet PC, let alone running virus or spyware protection even once.

By: Jonathan@Tilneys.com

Jonathan@Tilneys.com — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:15:01 +0000

I won’t use the ‘F’ word, but I will call you stupid.

I’m using a Mac trackpad now and right click is done as simply as putting two fingers on the pad and clicking.

How do you get by with such ignorance?