PL_ Veteran Posted December 28, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2009 - The indentation with which you open the screen happens to be in the same place as the built-in camera, which means you put smudges in front of the lens every time you open it That isn't true. The lens is further back than the indentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 That isn't true. The lens is further back than the indentation. +1 If you stick to the indentation (which runs right along the rubber bumper around the screen), there's no way you're smudging the glass over the lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 I realize most of my initial reactions are due to my familiarity with Windows - and I posted them partially to bring up the kinds of things a Windows user would first run into when using a Mac, but there are a few things I find inexcusable:1. Text rendering. It's just so blurry I don't see what you are talking about. All the fonts look very sharp on my MBP. 2. No DPI adjustment - I'd have to lower my resolution to get OS-wide size adjustment...which seems so last decade. Doesn't DPI stand for Dots-Per-Square-Inch? Isn't that a physical property of your monitor? You shouldn't have to change this. People changed it in Windows so that fonts were bigger, but it really wasn't the correct way of accomplishing that. Anyway, I understand your problem and am not sure about a solution other than magnify view. But please understand that DPI settings are not intended to accomplish what you want (it just happens to be that way in Windows). DPI is more of an effort to get WYSIWYG when dealing with image editors. 3. I get the idea of zoom vs maximize, but seriously, when I don't have a 30-inch screen, I want to be able to quickly take advantage of what screen space I do have! I hide my dock, and use a program posted on these forums called Cinch. Cinch mimics Aero Snap and is very handy for "maximizing" the windows. I too don't understand why the "+" button doesn't maximize a window to full screen. Seems pretty useless to me. 4. It may just be my Windows-user-ness coming out again, but the dock really seems inferior to the superbar - sure it's better than pre-Win7's taskbar, but I seriously miss aero-peek! If you left click and hold on an icon it kind of has the same functionality. It uses an expose style layout of all the windows for that particular program. I have the superbar hidden in Windows as well as the Mac OS X Dock. I rely on Windows Search and Spotlight to open programs rather than hunting for them. When it comes to moving files between Finder folders there are some cool features with the Dock and also with opening windows by hovering over them while dragging-and-dropping. I think Mac OS X has a bit of an advantage there. When it comes to "juggling" windows around, I think Windows 7 beats Mac OS X in terms of interface. Cinch helps out with that problem some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 More gripes:- The edges at the bottom are too sharp. If I try to use my MBP on a slightly elevated surface the edges start cutting into my wrists - The handling of the 9400M/9600M is horrendous. You have to log out to switch between them in Mac OSX, and no 9400M support in Windows at all (which unnecessarily lowers battery life). Other PC notebooks with this configuration in Windows will automatically switch on and off the 9600M (without logging out) and will even run both GPUs in SLI to get better performance - The indentation with which you open the screen happens to be in the same place as the built-in camera, which means you put smudges in front of the lens every time you open it - The Boot Camp drivers don't let Windows 7 control the screen brightness, you have to do it manually with the fn key combination - The glossy screen is very annoying. The slightest smudge is very visible, and glare is terrible - Either I'm incapable of browsing Apple's web site, or there is no such thing as a docking station for a MBP, forcing me to plug-in/un-plug my keyboard and mouse, network cable, external HD, speakers, and second monitor every time go to/leave my desk - No VGA or DVI port, which forced me to buy an adapter to use my external monitor I think those are all pretty valid gripes. The edge of my MBP was sharp and annoying at first, but after a week it doesn't bother me anymore (and is probably a little duller). I also don't have the problem with the finger prints on the camera from opening the macbook up... But other than that, I can't really defend Apple against any of the problems you are having because they are all valid. All I can say is that I can pick up a lot of other laptops (i have a couple at work) and generate a complaint list about the same size. Maybe what I'm getting at is: nothing is perfect? - Had to hard stop it (hold power button for 5 seconds) while running it in Mac OSX the other day because no apps would start, and it wouldn't shut down or restart since programs were running. Tried using Force Quit to close running apps, but after quitting the first couple apps, the Force Quit window just gave me the Spinning Gay Rainbow of "Sucks to be You." Never had these kinds of problems on my HP with Windows 7... It is funny that there is a pretty strong sentiment that Mac OS X is more stable than Windows. I have also found this to be false with my MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and while running Hackintosh on a desktop (although I realize that doesn't count as much). Programs are written by programmers which are all people and prone to make mistakes. It does help to know how to use the Terminal in Mac OS X to kill stray processes when they happen. The Activity Monitor generally does a good job at Force Killing applications. The problem seems to come up as often in Windows as it does in Mac OS X and it seems to be a problem with specific applications and not the Operating System. Some things that I have enjoyed about my MacBook Pro that I haven't seen in a Windows environment: 1. Reliable sleep/wake-up. This has worked for me 100% of the time on my MBP no matter what is running. My Windows laptops always had issues sleeping. It was also annoying when I put the laptop to sleep, throw it in my bag and some stray process wakes it up while in my bag. Sure, sleep worked 90% of the time, but I couldn't ever trust it for that other 10% so always did a full shut-down. 2. Quick shutdown and very speedy start-up. Very impressed with how fast it boots up and is ready to browse the web. 3. The screen brightness and keyboard brightness controls are slick. The light detection through the pinhole web cam work brilliantly. 4. Better battery life doesn't seem to come at a cost of performance. I like my MBP, but if people were to ask me if I would recommend it I probably wouldn't because of the price. I think that Macs are great for people who want a Mac but for people who just want a PC are better off just getting a PC. I don't believe there is anything particularly magical about Macs that make them super easy to use and put them ahead of Windows. They are just different. For me it is a nice break from Windows which I spend 8 hours a day in at Work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebus197 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Here's the gist of it, it grows on you! I felt exactly the same at first, but after maybe a year (it took that long) and learning how to configure everything just to my liking, I actually prefer it. I wouldn't say I vastly prefer it - and Windows still handles muti-media better in a more intergrated way, but what the hey, there are still a few (relatively small) ways in which OS X (at least for me) still edges slightly ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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