Rags to Riches

en route to a “richer” Internet

1. John Barrett 04.01.07 / 7am

   Glad to hear that you got another computer, I too use the mac and love it. “There are a few things that I don’t like” what are they, maybe I can help(not an mac expert, but you never know:))

   I just installed Flex Builder for the Mac, it rocks!
2. Abdul Qabiz 04.01.07 / 1pm

   Congrats!

   MacBook rocks.I love the UI, *nix underneath, stability, faster. it’s cool.

   I don’t do anything windows specific and I was part time user but switched completely last year.

   Enjoy..

   -abduI

   PS: Your comment form gets gray if you move the mouse out and resets the scroll position of this text-area when it gains the focus. I found hard to use mouse, took me two mins to figure out what’s going on and type the comment.
3. Mrinal Wadhwa 04.01.07 / 2pm

   Hi John,

   The things that I am a little uncomfortable with are:

   1. Less screen real estate: I don’t mind things being small but I really like large resolution … the 1680×1050 on my 15.4 inch Dell Inspiron was just perfect .. but the 1400×900 on 15.4 MacBook was an informed trade off …also because of this hunger for real estate I don’t like the 2 bars (window header and the bar with apple logo that’s always there ..don know whats its called ) on top instead of just one in windows … I know there’s the taskbar in Windows but that I could set to autohide … could not find the same option here.

   2. I have to use 2 hands a lot(even when I’m using just the mouse) ….for secondary menu …. for scrolling with the trackpad without taking the pointer to the scrollbar etc.

   3. Focus in Dialog Boxes: Whenever a Dialog box opens … say a Preferences dialog or an Alert box …..unlike Windows I am not able to traverse the Focus on all the fields using TAB/SHIFT-TAB …. also I can’t use the left and right arrow keys to switch between the active button on that dialog .. these a very handy short cuts and I miss them … for example .. if I just finished typing a password in Firefox and hit enter to submit … it will throw an alert asking to save password .. with three options Never, Not Now and Remember .. the default selected button is Not Now … in Windows the moment it shows up .. as my fingers are already at the keyboard ’cause I just finished hitting enter .. I would quickly use the near by arrow keys to move to the option I want to select and hit enter again … in OS X I have to take the mouse all the way to the top and then click my option.

   These are just a few things I miss from my old laptop .. but there’s a lot of other exciting stuff in this new one .. I’m totally glued to it since the time I got it
4. Mrinal Wadhwa 04.01.07 / 2pm

   Hi Abdul,

   Thanks for the pointer .. I fixed the comments problem .. I had not noticed it .. Thanks
5. Abdul Qabiz 04.04.07 / 10pm

   Mrinal,

   You don’t have to use both hands. You can configure your trackpad for:-

   1) two fingers for scrolling
   2) two fingers for right-click
   3) normal clikc and double click by tapping.

   Believe me once you are used to of this. You would realize it’s far usable than any other laptop except IBM TP trackpoint, I loved it and miss it a lot.

   -abdul
6. Mrinal Wadhwa 04.06.07 / 1pm

   Thanks Abdul,

   Two fingers both for scrolling and right clicking .. not very happening… sometimes causes menu to appear when I’m trying to scroll …. this is how my earlier dell was set up and i liked that more..

   1. normal click, double click by tapping
   2. right click … like any other windows box there were 2 buttons and I used my thumb for them.
   3. vertical scroll - drag on right edge of trackpad from bottom to top.
   4. horizontal scroll - drag on bottom edge of trackpad from left to right
7. Kyle 08.10.07 / 8pm

   I must say, I too prefer to have a scroll zone on the trackpad instead of the two-finger approach…though I’ve already grown used to it.
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