Technology & Life Related Musings

Two words, function and style.

Since I’ve had this Macbook Pro I’ve been increasingly pining for it when using PCs at work or my other machines at home.

Apple aren’t perfect, but they’re definitely doing something right.

Before you even boot it up it looks better than just about any PC out there and then you get to actually using it!

I did find some things like the application system (drag and drop, no install) and window/application management a little odd to begin. On my Windows and Linux machines I was used to using ALT+TAB to get where I wanted to go and on OSX that cycles through application, not open windows. So you can’t use it to switch between 2 browser windows of the same application.

Que Exposé, Apple’s answer to all this (shown below)

You can select a window by clicking, typing it’s title or using the arrow keys, it’s a nice system.

Most of the software you get bundled with the mac is great also. Specifically I find iPhoto and iCal invaluable.

iPhoto has some particularly nice features like Places, Faces and Facebook sync:

All in all I’ve found my macbook is consistently stable and fast to the point where I’m considering never buying another PC again.