So, I had the option to get a Macbook at a quite good price so I now own a 13" Macbook Pro. I haven't got any experience with OS X until now (well I do own an iPhone, but that doesn't quite count) and I would like to change that and get my own impressions of OS X.
The hardware is sexy, it's truly nice and beats all other laptops I've played with. It's very quiet, the battery life is pretty good and the screen is nice.
Until now I've never liked trackpads and clearly preferred a trackpoint like on the excellent Thinkpad laptops, however the big multi-touch trackpad on the Macbook have convinced me - trackpads, when done properly, works very well!
As for the software part, OS X is generally quite nice. It starts and shuts down quickly and is aesthetically very nice. It's not perfect though - I personally prefer the Windows 7 taskbar over the OS X dock. I find the dock a bit "fuzzy", making it harder than neccesary to find the application you want to launch. I also think it window manager could use some work. If I have several windows of the same program open, I can't easily switch between those windows with CMD+TAB.
That's my current experience with my Macbook Pro and OS X, I'm still learning of course so some of my complaints might simply be lack of knowledge on my behalf :)
2 comments:
"If I have several windows of the same program open, I can't easily switch between those windows with CMD+TAB"
Cmd+~ switches between application windows - Try doing that in Win7 :)
/H
Who is finding his new iMac i7 27" and 12GB RAM quiet tollerable
Hilli: That's not optimal IMHO, I don't want to have to use 2 different key combinations just to switch to a specific application window.
Nice new iMac you got there - I don't have the need for such a machine though, I have my Win7 desktop with Intel SSD - runs pretty darn well ;)
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