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If any of you have been following my threads in G.Q., I have a problem with the sorting impulses of the Ipod.
But other than that, my biggest complaint about Macs is how, on the laptops, how easily cords become unplugged, especially the external monitor one. It just slips the hell out.
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I’m reminded of an Apple commercial where the Mac kid bragged about this sort of thing being a feature.
Though, IIRC, it was in reference to the power cord, and basically so people wouldn’t trip over your power cord and send your laptop crashing to the ground.
That said, I’ve never had this be a serious issue for me, mostly because my laptop’s power cord is so ginormously long that I can make sure it’s completley flat on the ground between my desk and the wall.
[QUOTE=cmyk]
Is it an Apple monitor? All Apple monitors have two screws on either side of the cable’s plug. Even if not, I’d be surprised if your monitor cable didn’t have two thumb screws, every monitor I’ve ever had, has had these.
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Wrong end of the cable. I’m talking about the the laptop end of it.
[QUOTE=Raguleader]
I’m reminded of an Apple commercial where the Mac kid bragged about this sort of thing being a feature.
Though, IIRC, it was in reference to the power cord, and basically so people wouldn’t trip over your power cord and send your laptop crashing to the ground.
That said, I’ve never had this be a serious issue for me, mostly because my laptop’s power cord is so ginormously long that I can make sure it’s completley flat on the ground between my desk and the wall.
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It is a feature!. And a great one. I’m glad it’s never been an issue for you, but the laptop my Macbook replaced was an HP that died when someone tripped over the cord, bent the connection and fried the board. The same tripping happens constantly with my Macbook, but the cord’s magnetic connector just slips right out. Much better than the alternative. It’s one of my favorite design features on the Macbook.
As for the monitor connector, I think it’s intended to be used when the Macbook is stationary. They probably just didn’t have the real estate to accommodate the screw posts.
[QUOTE=acsenray]
Wrong end of the cable. I’m talking about the the laptop end of it.
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The laptop end of my monitor cable does screw into the MacBook Pro - with two screws. It is on the back of the right side of the laptop. It is permanently fixed into the 23" Cinema display.
[QUOTE=minor7flat5]
I was all excited about this and then when I got home I tried it to find out…
It’s pretty much the same: each app does what it wants to do when option+green button is clicked. Safari doesn’t seem to care if the option key is pressed, while iTunes does a pretty good attempt at real maximizing.
In other words, totally unpredictable.
About that double-finger-tap on the mouse pad: There is a checkbox in Keyboard & Mouse under System Preferences called “Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click” and another useful one called “Use two fingers to scroll”
Both of these were off by default when I brought my Mac home.
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I just tried this to check, and you are absolutely right about the Option+green button. Sorry; I don’t know why I misremembered that so completely.
I suppose I could also be misremembering the two finger tap being on by default, but I sure don’t remember having to do this on my wife’s Air. But the Air has a bunch of other neat things set on by default, so it may be a special case.
Has anyone mentioned yet that the green button maximizes whatever window you’re working in to however wide the text/content is? Because it makes sense to me, and now I hate that Windows does things the way it does.
I think the “maximize window” thing is just one of those total disconnects between Mac and Windows people. If you are used to windows taking up your whole freaking screen, it seems weird to you that there’s no built-in button to make it do so instantly. If you are accustomed to windows (and applications in their entirety) only taking up as much of your screen as they need, always leaving some of the Finder visible around the edges and being able to see and access other windows (same app and/or other apps) without it being an “either/or” process, the persistent demands for “I wanna maximize my window” just seem odd.
I can understand how once or twice a month you might have some reason for wanting a window to go full-screen, even in an app that doesn’t anticipate it and therefore does not have a built-in full-screen mode (such as iDVD and iMovie have, and Photoshop has, etc). So you grab the resize handle and drag down & to your right, there ya go! Obviously that would be insufficient if you want to do this serveral times a day instead of several times per month, but what is it you’re doing so bloody often that makes it so useful or imperative that your window take up the full screen? No one has ever explained that to me. Is it just “I’m used to it and that’s how I want it”?
[QUOTE=AHunter3]
Obviously that would be insufficient if you want to do this serveral times a day instead of several times per month, but what is it you’re doing so bloody often that makes it so useful or imperative that your window take up the full screen? No one has ever explained that to me. Is it just “I’m used to it and that’s how I want it”?
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Lots of stuff is better run maximized, especially if your screen isn’t running at a particularly high resolution.
Look at it the other way, if you don’t need to see two windows at once and you’re working in one application for a long time, why not maximize it?
[QUOTE=chaoticbear]
Has anyone mentioned yet that the green button maximizes whatever window you’re working in to however wide the text/content is? Because it makes sense to me, and now I hate that Windows does things the way it does.
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Yes.
See post 40.
(I realize now that putting multiple things in a big list like that makes it easier to skip over some of them)
“I’m used to it” may be the start, but just because a person prefers one over the other doesn’t invalidate the other.
I am pretty used to working with fully maximized windows in Windows and alt-tabbing between them. This is because I am most often intently working in one app, and not engaged in working between apps. I want to see as much of my work as I can.
For example, if I am working on a database entity-relationship diagram with several dozen tables, I want to see as much as possible.
If I am coding, I want to see as many lines of code as possible, with few wrapped lines.
If I am working on a Word document, I maximize it so the page width fills the screen. The text is nice and big then (though many might not like this approach).
An additional motivation for maximized windows in Windows that I’m sure any Mac guy can get behind: as any Mac user knows, the menu bar is an easier target to hit when it’s at the top of the screen. The only way for it to be there in Windows is to maximize the window.
That’s about it. I am used to my Mac’s behavior and take the “When in Rome…” attitude and do just fine.
An additional motivation for maximized windows in Windows that I’m sure any Mac guy can get behind: as any Mac user knows, the menu bar is an easier target to hit when it’s at the top of the screen. The only way for it to be there in Windows is to maximize the window.
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I forgot about the fact that the menu bar is always at the top of the screen on a Mac, and changes based on which window is active. I hate that.
[QUOTE=Raguleader]
I’m reminded of an Apple commercial where the Mac kid bragged about this sort of thing being a feature.
Though, IIRC, it was in reference to the power cord, and basically so people wouldn’t trip over your power cord and send your laptop crashing to the ground.
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At least the power plug is magnetized. That way, if it’s jerked, it pops out, but it doesn’t just slip out on its own. That’s not the case with the monitor connection.
