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welcome to the long awaited I hope part three of I switched to the iMac the

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software experience I'll still be doing at least one more look at the hardware

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with a focus on thermal throttling and gaming performance of the R9 295x mobile

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GPU but this is really the meat and potatoes of what it was like for me as a

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longtime Windows only guy to use a Mac

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for over a month as my daily driver It

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Is by no means comprehensive I used the machine like I'd expect a mostly normal

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person to do it without registry edits and add-ons up the wazo but I feel like

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it gave me a good feel for what the Mac experience is supposed to be like and

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I'm hoping to get that across to you guys so here we

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go The Cooler Master nepton 240m features an exclusive pump design and

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their new silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click

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now to learn more let's Jump Right In shall we instead of nite.com I used get

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Mac apps which generates a string of text you paste into terminal.app that

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installs all your stuff for you and then started setting up all my network shares

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and whatnot then I spent a fair bit of time in the system preferences menu

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discovering really cool stuff like the ability to log into my Gmail and social

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media accounts within the OS using an application specific password just like

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on a phone to effortlessly set up the messaging client for my hangouts chat

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though it was hard to use because my messages sent through other devices

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wouldn't show up on the Mac the default email clients so that notifications

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popped up on my desktop just like that and the calendar so all the stuff I need

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to do is at my fingertips and struggling to understand

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some of the truly asinine stuff like the inability to disable scroll wheel

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acceleration something that makes using a physical wheel Mouse extremely

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unpleasant in OS 10 use and that ultimately along with the very

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convenient two-fingered swipes to change space or virtual desktops forced me to

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keep using the phenomenally unergonomic Magic Mouse although for a couple bucks

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you can fix that with a third party application I am told expose now called

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Mission Control excuse me access is another thing that I changed by default

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you reach it by double two finger tapping the mouse very unnatural and

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obviously a touchpad design gesture or by moving the mouse to any of the four

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corners of the screen but I found myself doing that accidentally pretty often so

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I was extremely pleased to find that on each Corner this functionality can be

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disabled outright or it can even be reassigned to other useful things like

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peek at the desktop put the display to sleep and open up Launchpad okay mostly

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useful Microsoft deserves the crap that we gave them over the charms menu

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replacing functionality that used to be in start but it amazes me that they got

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so much flak for modern UI when Apple seems to have completely snuck under the

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radar with Launchpad how is it different except that it's icon instead of live

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tiles it's worse it's okay though because just like on Windows you never

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have to use it I kept all my frequently Ed stuff in the dock and then for

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everything else apple plus spacebar brings up Spotlight did I say apple I

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think I meant command whatever you get the point and Spotlight whose ability to

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guess what you were looking for and push the more relevant results to the top is

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Worlds ahead of Windows's built-in search functionality that has improved

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to the point where it actually returns results for for example Windows update

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or uninstall but still presents them in no particular order but before the Mac

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users start nodding their heads knowingly about how silly Windows is

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there is some boneheaded and confusing Mac stuff too especially if you haven't

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used OS 10 before while I was in preferences trying to learn keyboard

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shortcuts and turn on repeat for letters when I hold them down I still couldn't

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figure out what was going on without doing some gole Googling I mean the symbol for alt/option and control are

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confusing as heck and brightness control is F14 and F-15 I mean where are those

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and while we're at it in preferences why are the keyboard shortcuts for Mission

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Control within keyboard but not within the mission control menu when the mouse

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gestures for Mission Control are Within mission control and not within Mouse ah

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and why do I need a third- party plugin to see favicons in my Safari tabs how am

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I supposed to know what's what Chrome me up Scotty but there's also some

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usability stuff that made the Mac a total pleasure to use having the option

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when you reboot to open all your crap when you log back in is freaking awesome

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yay for little timesavers spaces is

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awesome and Supernatural to use not as good as dual monitors or an ultra wide

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but a surprisingly excellent compromise as a space saer and the way OS 10

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manages updates is just nicer than

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Windows I can ignore it without being bothered if I want and but there's no

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need to because I can tell it to do it automatically when I know I won't be

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working and thanks to OS 10's ability to open up everything I was doing when I

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logg back in I know I won't miss a beat I also like that downloads go to a handy

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little dedicated manager pop up on the taskbar excuse me Doc instead of being

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managed within each browser or forcing me to dig through Explorer excuse me

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sorry finder to track them down but that

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leads well into what I think is my biggest OS 10 complaint it is no wonder

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to me that Apple spent so much time making Spotlight awesome because finder

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is horrendous here are some complaints about it in no particular order sort by

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is systemwide instead of folder by folder so it's almost never right when I

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open a particular folder to help me find the most relevant items at the top

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instead of having a route directory for each drive internal storage all just

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gets piled together I mean no wonder Mac people buy all these external

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Thunderbolt drives to manage their files they have no way of of knowing what's

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where there's legitimately no way to force refresh the contents of a folder

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because it should be automatic which is great except when it doesn't work and

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you rate around for 15 minutes for the file to show up there are only two

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thumbnail sizes and they're buried in some submenu and again must be changed F

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or wide you can't easily cut and paste files and folders yeah seriously Windows

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people watching this Mac people need to install a Plugin or must use keyboard

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shortcuts to hot paste and finally

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though this is a Windows complaint too these days why is up directory missing

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why do I need to use the functionally sometimes the same back button or

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breadcrumbs or a drop down for this can we please bring that

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back and there are other usability things that irk me too picture importing

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versus being allowed to just manage my videos and images with clearly

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thumbnailed directories and drag and drop would be fine if I wasn't usually

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in a hurry when I I was doing it and I guess the same can be said for window

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management it's fine but it just takes

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longer full screening things takes a dog's age for some reason and is more

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like theater mode in a media player than maximize on Windows Aros snap like

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functionality can be added with hyperdoc but until you do that it's basically

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back to Windows XP style resizing and

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dragging around and another frustrating thing for me anyway is managing multiple

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Windows within a single application left clicking just vomits them all all over

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your screen where you left them and selecting a particular one lacks a

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graphical preview so you're stuck just selecting from a list which I find

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slower and less intuitive I really do like the word processor pages though

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aside from the cless of my Windows PC using co-workers needing to rename the

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pages files to dotzip manually in order to open them whenever I forget to export

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a separate copy for them in doc I ended up really liking it

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numbers feels like a bit of a bad joke compared to Excel and keynote I honestly

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just didn't use but pages is a pleasure to write in and I legitimately

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understand why writers might use Mac in order just to have it especially

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compared to Office for Mac y The only positive thing I can say about Office

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for Mac is thank goodness I didn't buy it I installed it using one of my five

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Office 365 installs promptly delicensed it and installed parallels with Windows

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8 on it so I could use Office 2013

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instead parallels by the way is an awesome crutch for those looking to make

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the switch to Mac because it came in handy so many times whether I couldn't

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find a Mac version of an application or even just for little stupid things like

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installing the drivers to configure a gaming mouse and you know get the lights

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and the you know buttons programmed correctly before then switching it back

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to OS 10 now I feel like I could talk pros and

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cons for another probably 15 minutes here but this is YouTube and I'm likely

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already pushing the limits of the general audience's attention span so I'm going to try and wrap things up here

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there was some stuff about using a Mac for a month that drove me nuts changing

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the back shortcut in finder and Safari from command open bracket to something

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faster requires a registry edit the position of the command key for my

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commonly used keyboard shortcuts like copy and paste is something I've pretty

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much gotten used to now but still find extremely uncomfortable and little

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things like middle clicking to enable mouse scrolling requires a 14

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app called Smart Scroll and I'll be damned if I'm buying that instead of a dozen chocolate bars but there were

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things I liked some first- party app store stuff like Twitter is awesome

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compared to the awful modern UI stuff on Windows 8 add it in font installation is

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way better you just double click it instead of dragging it to the fonts folder which is completely unintuitive

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on Windows the inclusion of functional

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productivity software like pages is great instead of expecting me to buy it

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separately and parallels his excellent performance with Windows applications

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feels very best of both worlds but none

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of this was enough to even begin to tempt me to switch not because Windows

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is amazing and perfect because it's not but because it's fine and the Mac

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experience was also just fine not enough for me to spend

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$3,000 on this machine the high resolution display is beautiful but the

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unexceptional GPU driving it causes it to chug all the time and one of the

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features that I thought would actually be like a killer app continuity being

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able to you know take phone calls and texts from your iPhone on the Mac

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honestly left a lot to be desired mostly due to the stunningly poor voice quality

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on the other end of the conversation thanks to the computer's top mounted

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microphone what were they thinking so I guess that's it for me then maybe in

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another 15 years I'll take another run at the Mac but by then I suspect even

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more of what I do will be browser based and the difference between Windows Mac

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or heck even Chrome OS or Linux based machines will be even less eliminating

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more of the justification that exists today for buying expensive computers

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just for the sake of the OS they run speaking of oh I don't know I'll just

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