![]() ![]() How could they make such a claim? The writing of third party apps has nothing to do with Apple. No-one claims that applications on OS-X won’t crash. But if there’s someone want’s to explain that in comments, please go ahead.Ĭould I put in a plea that people are computer-sophisticated enough to have a blog ought to be sophisticated enough to understand what “crashing the OS” means. I can’t really see what the benefits would be. One thing I haven’t done is subscribe to Apple’s. If I were buying a laptop again tomorrow, then I’d buy the same. Uploading to flickr from iPhoto using a Quicksilver plugin proved a little trickier, but I worked it out in the end. I’m not quite there yet, but it is a very useful and intuitive way of doing things and the de. plugin makes accessing my favourite websites a matter of ctrl-space, type a letter or two, return. Kieran told me that after I’ve used it for a bit I’d come to think of any computer without it is broken. ![]() What else is have I liked? Well, “Quicksilver”: for one thing. Of course if I’d worked out that I already had a trial copy of Keynote on the machine, I could have used that. ![]() Using them was fine, until I got to the “save as” part … at which point they crashed. I had to do a PowerPoint presentation and tried the latest ports of OpenOffice and NeoOffice for the Mac. Other software has proved more of a pain. Search Wikipedia or Google from within the editor? Or execute a Unix command? No problem. You can also do things like write a blog post in Textile (or Markdown) and send it direct from TextMate to your blog. It is highly configurable, and I’ve worked out how to integrate it with BibDesk (thereby getting BibTeX integration as nice as it was on WinEdt). ![]() I’m still on my 1-month trial, but I’m liking it a lot. And I started using “TeXshop”: as my LaTeX front end, which is fine but the editor isn’t actually as nifty as WinEdt for the PC is: the solution use “TextMate”: as my editor. I use gmail for mail, so no difference there. I tend to use Firefox as my browser, because I like various plugins such as ConQuery, so that’s pretty much the same. Claims made by Mac fans that OSX never crashes proved to be false: it does, sometimes, as do applications which “quit unexpectedly”. I got used to the Mac way of working pretty fast – though I miss having a 2-button mouse – and, to be honest, there isn’t as much difference as I expected with a PC. What works is to wait until the screen goes black and then a further few seconds. Apple told me to reset the power management, which I did, but that made no difference. One one occasion I came downstairs in the morning to find the battery completely depleted from one of these incidents, on another my rucksack was burning hot from the nearly combusting computer inside it. It didn’t just go into benign “sleep” mode when this happened, it “woke up” in its closed state became incredibly hot, fans whirring, refused to shutdown or restart, “kernel panic”, and so on. The problem was this: that I’d imagine I had shut down the machine, but I’d actually closed the clamshell before the shutdown process finished. On the other hand, I did have a nasty persistent problem when I first got the machine, one that Apple weren’t much use with, and which a large number of new MacBook owners seem to be suffering from. The keyboard is comfortable, the display is good, and the whole think isn’t too heavy to carry about. The MacBook looks nice and it plays nice. As a result, I took your advice and got myself a spanking new Intel-based “MacBook”. As some of you may remember, “I blegged”: a while back about getting a new laptop. ![]()
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