Comments on: My Mac Mini http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/ Get Marooned Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kiran http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14487 Tue, 20 May 2008 16:51:58 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14487 I was almost about to place an order mac mini at apple.com, but after this post I wish to stick to ubuntu (only), not worth the hassle. And I am not sure about mac but windows sucks for rails development. Though I hear TextMate is great, Netbeans is pretty good and have good support for ruby on rails. And no complains with Linux (Ubuntu) for rails development.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14486 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:01:03 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14486 It can be intuitive when you hover over it and it says the word maximize. I expect a button that says maximize to fill the screen. Otherwise I think you're correct.

]]> By: Jesse http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14485 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:57:04 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14485 > Things like the window maximizing and install procedure just are not intuitive at all.

I don't think window maximizing *can* be “intuitive.” It's not something you do in the physical world. If you've never seen it in a computer UI before, how would you have any expectation as to what it would do? I think your expectation as to what a particular button does was formed by a particular UI that you're accustomed to. I agree that the Windows maximizing behavior is more useful, but I don't see any metric by which to compare their intuitiveness.

The install procedure — that you install a program by copying it somewhere, and uninstall by deleting it — seems perfectly intuitive to me. The first time I did this after I got a Mac, I thought, “Wow, that's so much better than running an installer program that does who-knows-what!”

I'm kind of confused by your complaint about font anti-aliasing. Hasn't Windows done that for years? I'm pretty sure even Windows 98 did. Maybe it's a check box that I've always checked it and then forgotten.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14484 Sun, 04 May 2008 15:58:02 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14484 Yeah, you're wrong. Things like the window maximizing and install procedure just are not intuitive at all. Even had I never used Windows I wouldnâ??t have guessed how they work because they function in such an illogical manner.

Everyone keeps saying something like “use it for longer and it will grow more intuitive.” People need a dictionary.

]]> By: gfhfgfgfhf http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14483 Sun, 04 May 2008 09:37:35 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14483 This learning period is longer for you because you are used to the way it is on windows. Everyone who make a transition from windows to mac os has these problems (right click, mouse acceleration, keyboard, window maximization, drag-drop installation, font antialiasing), it is just because you used windows first. When you say interface is not intuitive, your previous experience is in your way, not your instincts. After using mac os for a good amount of time, I found it very hard to get back to windows, and I think this will be the case for you as well.

I don't agree that mac os is the only way to go for Rails development, you have everything necessary on windows as well. But I must say Textmate is one of the reasons many developers are switching to mac.

I think that you're going to spend more time in front of that mac mini than your windows machine.

]]> By: Howie http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14482 Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:09 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14482 Weird about the dual screen thing. On my macbook (and the powerbook before it) I just plug in the little adaptor and it works. It even remembers to rejig my dock and menu bar onto the bigger external monitor.

I agree about program installation being a pain. You do get dmgs that launch a .pkg (installer) file, but no-one (mac experienced) seems to trust .pkg installers, preferring the dragging kind.

Multimonitor on Linux or *BSD – *that's* a proper challenge though…

I don't think I'd want to go back to a Windows laptop now, and although both my desktops are currently WinXP, one may well become a new mini sometime soon.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14492 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:28:32 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14492 That misses the point. I'm not unwilling to accept it. I just think that the learning curve makes it counter-intuitive. Just one thing I find to be wrong with the OS, which is ironic because it's what they seem to hype the most.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14471 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:25:43 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14471 Also, most porn is found in wmv format. I remember reading an article about it not too long ago, it's overwhelmingly in that.

]]> By: Steve http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14481 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:34:20 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14481 You Mac freaks are hilarious. Seriously, do you even listen to yourselves?

“Macs don't suck, you suck.”

I tried a Mac a few times and hated it. I need a right-click. I also like maximizing my windows. But that's not Apple's problem, I just suck, right?

I'm going to keep using Windows XP because I know how to use it and it does what I want.

I also prefer to spend $500 on a computer rather than $2,000, but that's just me.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/28/my-mac-mini/#comment-14463 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:29:32 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=359#comment-14463 Happened.

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