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Another MacOS X Rant.
That's so easy it's almost unfair.
OK so I've been using the 15' Powerbook G4 from work for 3 days now and as always with Apple hardware I'm mixed with good and bad feelings.
My biggest complain with Apple hardware and software is that it looks pretty and impressive at first yet eventually the stuff is crippled with annoying details that should not exist in products that are inherently sold at a premium price.
So let's see what's wrong with this 15' Powerbook G4:
MacOS X related:
That is to create a new text: I'm browsing some folder with the Finder and want to create a new text. So instead of being to say "create new text here" (which is what Windows allows for), I must first leave the target folder to find the application folder, open the application, create the new document and then when I want to save it I have to browse again to find the folder where I was in the first place. Such a waste of energy.
Note that this is similar to the flame war around the spatial-browsing Nautilus. Some would advocate that my methodology is wrong, and that's exactly my point: MacOS X does not adapt to the way I work, instead it requires people to adapt to it. Sorry but paradigms that were OK for me ten years ago are no longer acceptable today.
Maybe MacOS X provides a seemingly cleaner interface (yet again, one that I cannot configure the way I really want) than the alternatives, yet it does little in really improving usability of the computer. Quite frankly, what is truly different between MacOS X and say MacOS 7 besides technicalities such as a true underlying operating system? The underlying architecture is a thing that an end user shouldn't need to care about and the fact that this is a major point of the marketing message of Apple is a good sign that something is wrong with the whole picture.
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