welcome to the long awaited I hope part three of I switched to the iMac the
software experience I'll still be doing at least one more look at the hardware
with a focus on thermal throttling and gaming performance of the R9 295x mobile
GPU but this is really the meat and potatoes of what it was like for me as a
longtime Windows only guy to use a Mac
for over a month as my daily driver It
Is by no means comprehensive I used the machine like I'd expect a mostly normal
person to do it without registry edits and add-ons up the wazo but I feel like
it gave me a good feel for what the Mac experience is supposed to be like and
I'm hoping to get that across to you guys so here we
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now to learn more let's Jump Right In shall we instead of nite.com I used get
Mac apps which generates a string of text you paste into terminal.app that
installs all your stuff for you and then started setting up all my network shares
and whatnot then I spent a fair bit of time in the system preferences menu
discovering really cool stuff like the ability to log into my Gmail and social
media accounts within the OS using an application specific password just like
on a phone to effortlessly set up the messaging client for my hangouts chat
though it was hard to use because my messages sent through other devices
wouldn't show up on the Mac the default email clients so that notifications
popped up on my desktop just like that and the calendar so all the stuff I need
to do is at my fingertips and struggling to understand
some of the truly asinine stuff like the inability to disable scroll wheel
acceleration something that makes using a physical wheel Mouse extremely
unpleasant in OS 10 use and that ultimately along with the very
convenient two-fingered swipes to change space or virtual desktops forced me to
keep using the phenomenally unergonomic Magic Mouse although for a couple bucks
you can fix that with a third party application I am told expose now called
Mission Control excuse me access is another thing that I changed by default
you reach it by double two finger tapping the mouse very unnatural and
obviously a touchpad design gesture or by moving the mouse to any of the four
corners of the screen but I found myself doing that accidentally pretty often so
I was extremely pleased to find that on each Corner this functionality can be
disabled outright or it can even be reassigned to other useful things like
peek at the desktop put the display to sleep and open up Launchpad okay mostly
useful Microsoft deserves the crap that we gave them over the charms menu
replacing functionality that used to be in start but it amazes me that they got
so much flak for modern UI when Apple seems to have completely snuck under the
radar with Launchpad how is it different except that it's icon instead of live
tiles it's worse it's okay though because just like on Windows you never
have to use it I kept all my frequently Ed stuff in the dock and then for
everything else apple plus spacebar brings up Spotlight did I say apple I
think I meant command whatever you get the point and Spotlight whose ability to
guess what you were looking for and push the more relevant results to the top is
Worlds ahead of Windows's built-in search functionality that has improved
to the point where it actually returns results for for example Windows update
or uninstall but still presents them in no particular order but before the Mac
users start nodding their heads knowingly about how silly Windows is
there is some boneheaded and confusing Mac stuff too especially if you haven't
used OS 10 before while I was in preferences trying to learn keyboard
shortcuts and turn on repeat for letters when I hold them down I still couldn't
figure out what was going on without doing some gole Googling I mean the symbol for alt/option and control are
confusing as heck and brightness control is F14 and F-15 I mean where are those
and while we're at it in preferences why are the keyboard shortcuts for Mission
Control within keyboard but not within the mission control menu when the mouse
gestures for Mission Control are Within mission control and not within Mouse ah
and why do I need a third- party plugin to see favicons in my Safari tabs how am
I supposed to know what's what Chrome me up Scotty but there's also some
usability stuff that made the Mac a total pleasure to use having the option
when you reboot to open all your crap when you log back in is freaking awesome
yay for little timesavers spaces is
awesome and Supernatural to use not as good as dual monitors or an ultra wide
but a surprisingly excellent compromise as a space saer and the way OS 10
manages updates is just nicer than
Windows I can ignore it without being bothered if I want and but there's no
need to because I can tell it to do it automatically when I know I won't be
working and thanks to OS 10's ability to open up everything I was doing when I
logg back in I know I won't miss a beat I also like that downloads go to a handy
little dedicated manager pop up on the taskbar excuse me Doc instead of being
managed within each browser or forcing me to dig through Explorer excuse me
sorry finder to track them down but that
leads well into what I think is my biggest OS 10 complaint it is no wonder
to me that Apple spent so much time making Spotlight awesome because finder
is horrendous here are some complaints about it in no particular order sort by
is systemwide instead of folder by folder so it's almost never right when I
open a particular folder to help me find the most relevant items at the top
instead of having a route directory for each drive internal storage all just
gets piled together I mean no wonder Mac people buy all these external
Thunderbolt drives to manage their files they have no way of of knowing what's
where there's legitimately no way to force refresh the contents of a folder
because it should be automatic which is great except when it doesn't work and
you rate around for 15 minutes for the file to show up there are only two
thumbnail sizes and they're buried in some submenu and again must be changed F
or wide you can't easily cut and paste files and folders yeah seriously Windows
people watching this Mac people need to install a Plugin or must use keyboard
shortcuts to hot paste and finally
though this is a Windows complaint too these days why is up directory missing
why do I need to use the functionally sometimes the same back button or
breadcrumbs or a drop down for this can we please bring that
back and there are other usability things that irk me too picture importing
versus being allowed to just manage my videos and images with clearly
thumbnailed directories and drag and drop would be fine if I wasn't usually
in a hurry when I I was doing it and I guess the same can be said for window
management it's fine but it just takes
longer full screening things takes a dog's age for some reason and is more
like theater mode in a media player than maximize on Windows Aros snap like
functionality can be added with hyperdoc but until you do that it's basically
back to Windows XP style resizing and
dragging around and another frustrating thing for me anyway is managing multiple
Windows within a single application left clicking just vomits them all all over
your screen where you left them and selecting a particular one lacks a
graphical preview so you're stuck just selecting from a list which I find
slower and less intuitive I really do like the word processor pages though
aside from the cless of my Windows PC using co-workers needing to rename the
pages files to dotzip manually in order to open them whenever I forget to export
a separate copy for them in doc I ended up really liking it
numbers feels like a bit of a bad joke compared to Excel and keynote I honestly
just didn't use but pages is a pleasure to write in and I legitimately
understand why writers might use Mac in order just to have it especially
compared to Office for Mac y The only positive thing I can say about Office
for Mac is thank goodness I didn't buy it I installed it using one of my five
Office 365 installs promptly delicensed it and installed parallels with Windows
8 on it so I could use Office 2013
instead parallels by the way is an awesome crutch for those looking to make
the switch to Mac because it came in handy so many times whether I couldn't
find a Mac version of an application or even just for little stupid things like
installing the drivers to configure a gaming mouse and you know get the lights
and the you know buttons programmed correctly before then switching it back
to OS 10 now I feel like I could talk pros and
cons for another probably 15 minutes here but this is YouTube and I'm likely
already pushing the limits of the general audience's attention span so I'm going to try and wrap things up here
there was some stuff about using a Mac for a month that drove me nuts changing
the back shortcut in finder and Safari from command open bracket to something
faster requires a registry edit the position of the command key for my
commonly used keyboard shortcuts like copy and paste is something I've pretty
much gotten used to now but still find extremely uncomfortable and little
things like middle clicking to enable mouse scrolling requires a 14
app called Smart Scroll and I'll be damned if I'm buying that instead of a dozen chocolate bars but there were
things I liked some first- party app store stuff like Twitter is awesome
compared to the awful modern UI stuff on Windows 8 add it in font installation is
way better you just double click it instead of dragging it to the fonts folder which is completely unintuitive
on Windows the inclusion of functional
productivity software like pages is great instead of expecting me to buy it
separately and parallels his excellent performance with Windows applications
feels very best of both worlds but none
of this was enough to even begin to tempt me to switch not because Windows
is amazing and perfect because it's not but because it's fine and the Mac
experience was also just fine not enough for me to spend
$3,000 on this machine the high resolution display is beautiful but the
unexceptional GPU driving it causes it to chug all the time and one of the
features that I thought would actually be like a killer app continuity being
able to you know take phone calls and texts from your iPhone on the Mac
honestly left a lot to be desired mostly due to the stunningly poor voice quality
on the other end of the conversation thanks to the computer's top mounted
microphone what were they thinking so I guess that's it for me then maybe in
another 15 years I'll take another run at the Mac but by then I suspect even
more of what I do will be browser based and the difference between Windows Mac
or heck even Chrome OS or Linux based machines will be even less eliminating
more of the justification that exists today for buying expensive computers
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