A switchers Guide Mac OS X
I recently took delivery of a spangly new macbook pro. I needed this as I wanted to use it for web development and some surfing etc. I am and have been using Windows for about 13 years, quite a long time, but not huge compared to others in my industry. Professionally in IT I have a different view point to most of my counterparts, in that I believe that most OS’s have a part to play that can make an excellent enterprise architecture on the server side. Of course to me this doesn’t apply to OS2, AIX or any other IBM flavor of anything, have you seen lotus notes? I mean who “replicates” their email hello! .Erm, anyway across my career so far I haven’t had the opportunity to use Mac OS X at all. Recently a friend of mine while traveling around the world picked up a macbook, my friends tend to have an unnecessary one-upmanship rivalry which is very childish, this is one of the main reasons I had to buy a macbook pro. Seriously I have had a Mac in the back of my mind for some time and Darren buying one, confirmed to me that this was the right thing to do.
So now Yesterday I open up the box and turn on the Mac and it springs to life.
Observation Number 1: Remember when you install windows XP and during the install it tries to do the dynamic update over the internet, but it cant because you haven’t given it any drivers yet. Well this works and works well in the initial Mac setup. After a couple of screens what’s your name etc, it picked up my WiFi and prompted me for the key etc and it was away.
Observation Number 2: After you install you windows XP client you spend the next four hours going back to windows update rebooting and repeating. This is similar on a Mac after my first boot I was prompted with about 400Mb of patches and a firmware update. The fact Macs don’t need patching and AV is Myth spread by Pro Mac Anti Windows people. Any one who reads the register will appreciate that Mac OS X is as if not more bug ridden than windows. I believe Apples Attitude to this will have to change as did Microsoft some 18 months back.
Observation Number 3: One button on the mouse Seriously ? This isn’t a big a deal as I thought it was going to be all the context menus appear where you’d expect in Windows (Probably due to some UI “borrowing”), and instead of a right click its now a CRTL+Click.
Observation Number 4: The @ key has moved. This was a shock and Initially I thought I had an US keyboard, but upon further inspection the Euro and Pound Key we’re right there just along side the @ on shift+2 weird. That will take some getting used to. On a similar note as a Windows power user and frequent user of laptops (another IBM gripe how can you use a laptop properly without a windows key eh!), Apple has included a similar veritable feast of shortcuts which use the weird apple key thing. Some are similar to windows some aren’t. Again this is something that is going to slow my transition.
Obviously the Macs are drop dead gorgeous and you cant get anything close that runs windows (interestingly this only applies to the laptops as you can get some Very sexy atx cases now). Technically the screen is comparable with those Shiny Sony/Toshiba laptops.
So far touch wood my Max OS X experience (though still less than 72 hours old) is a good one and one that I would recommend.
So now Yesterday I open up the box and turn on the Mac and it springs to life.
Observation Number 1: Remember when you install windows XP and during the install it tries to do the dynamic update over the internet, but it cant because you haven’t given it any drivers yet. Well this works and works well in the initial Mac setup. After a couple of screens what’s your name etc, it picked up my WiFi and prompted me for the key etc and it was away.
Observation Number 2: After you install you windows XP client you spend the next four hours going back to windows update rebooting and repeating. This is similar on a Mac after my first boot I was prompted with about 400Mb of patches and a firmware update. The fact Macs don’t need patching and AV is Myth spread by Pro Mac Anti Windows people. Any one who reads the register will appreciate that Mac OS X is as if not more bug ridden than windows. I believe Apples Attitude to this will have to change as did Microsoft some 18 months back.
Observation Number 3: One button on the mouse Seriously ? This isn’t a big a deal as I thought it was going to be all the context menus appear where you’d expect in Windows (Probably due to some UI “borrowing”), and instead of a right click its now a CRTL+Click.
Observation Number 4: The @ key has moved. This was a shock and Initially I thought I had an US keyboard, but upon further inspection the Euro and Pound Key we’re right there just along side the @ on shift+2 weird. That will take some getting used to. On a similar note as a Windows power user and frequent user of laptops (another IBM gripe how can you use a laptop properly without a windows key eh!), Apple has included a similar veritable feast of shortcuts which use the weird apple key thing. Some are similar to windows some aren’t. Again this is something that is going to slow my transition.
Obviously the Macs are drop dead gorgeous and you cant get anything close that runs windows (interestingly this only applies to the laptops as you can get some Very sexy atx cases now). Technically the screen is comparable with those Shiny Sony/Toshiba laptops.
So far touch wood my Max OS X experience (though still less than 72 hours old) is a good one and one that I would recommend.
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