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Fascinating. On my Mac, acceleration sensitivity is hidden in the Razer Pro submenu (not a feature Razer anticipated people -- including core gamers -- using often, apparently), but I've certainly set it to taste already in the past. Rather like velocity versus pressure on a MIDI keyboard -- hard to picture life without it.
Still: Since we've both found ways around the issue, it doesn't seem a terrible limitation.
I wanted to reply to a few things you said earlier:
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Personally, I'd respond by quoting this bit from the site to which you've linked: "Covers OS X 10.2 through OS X 10.4. . . . Not all products mentioned, at the time of this writing, have been updated to be Intel-compatible."
In other words, the site is out of date.
But to answer your question honestly:
There's no such thing as a computer that doesn't require maintenance. One might just as usefully speak of data that doesn't have to be backed up.
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I can't think of an OS that looks particularly graceful when the screen grows cluttered. If you've got twelve programs and their attendant windows open, then I daresay you're performing several tasks at one time. Perhaps you shouldn't be overly concerned with architectural beauty until after you clean your room! However, if you are concerned, then you might want to configure Exposé accordingly in the System Prefs menu.
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Actually, they aren't.
The effect on a parent app of pressing a window's X button is app-specific, just as it is under Windows. A few apps quit when the window is closed; many do not. Most basic OS X apps (such as TextEdit) do not, but certain utilities do (such as Disk Utility), since they have no functionality apart from working in the singular window they open.
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I haven't had that frustrating experience, since I've been able to trace the problem in a reasonable amount of time. I doubt the tracing was "100 x harder," since your use of hyperbole makes the task sound nearly impossible.
So far, certain of your quibbles with the Mac seem a Hank uninvolving. If you want to experience true annoyance, then connect an external HD to a Mac, open twenty folders on said HD, close out, connect the HD to your PC and look at the folders again in Windows. Now ponder the mystery of twenty new files named "DS.Store."
After you've finished kvetching about the horrors of Mac Spew and complaining no longer gives you that special electric thrill (kidding!), install OnyX on the Mac, configure it not to leave DS.Store files on external drives, and weep with gratitude knowing the mystery files will haunt ye no more.
| Originally Posted by maarek99 /img/forum/go_quote.gif It doesn't have settings to change mouse ACCELERATION! The mouse moves slower when moving it slower and faster when moving it faster. I like to use a very high sensitivity to keep the speed fast and it just moves really weirdly in the mac. |
Fascinating. On my Mac, acceleration sensitivity is hidden in the Razer Pro submenu (not a feature Razer anticipated people -- including core gamers -- using often, apparently), but I've certainly set it to taste already in the past. Rather like velocity versus pressure on a MIDI keyboard -- hard to picture life without it.
Still: Since we've both found ways around the issue, it doesn't seem a terrible limitation.
I wanted to reply to a few things you said earlier:
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| Originally Posted by maarek99 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Mac doesn't need maintenance? How do you respond to this? http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html |
Personally, I'd respond by quoting this bit from the site to which you've linked: "Covers OS X 10.2 through OS X 10.4. . . . Not all products mentioned, at the time of this writing, have been updated to be Intel-compatible."
In other words, the site is out of date.
But to answer your question honestly:
There's no such thing as a computer that doesn't require maintenance. One might just as usefully speak of data that doesn't have to be backed up.
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| When you have about 12 programs open at the same time the OS X is really looking ugly. Windows flying everywhere. |
I can't think of an OS that looks particularly graceful when the screen grows cluttered. If you've got twelve programs and their attendant windows open, then I daresay you're performing several tasks at one time. Perhaps you shouldn't be overly concerned with architectural beauty until after you clean your room! However, if you are concerned, then you might want to configure Exposé accordingly in the System Prefs menu.
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| So the minimize button and close are the same damn thing in os x. |
Actually, they aren't.
The effect on a parent app of pressing a window's X button is app-specific, just as it is under Windows. A few apps quit when the window is closed; many do not. Most basic OS X apps (such as TextEdit) do not, but certain utilities do (such as Disk Utility), since they have no functionality apart from working in the singular window they open.
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| Have you ever had a good system failure with macs? It's about 100x harder to trace the reason for it than in Windows. |
I haven't had that frustrating experience, since I've been able to trace the problem in a reasonable amount of time. I doubt the tracing was "100 x harder," since your use of hyperbole makes the task sound nearly impossible.
So far, certain of your quibbles with the Mac seem a Hank uninvolving. If you want to experience true annoyance, then connect an external HD to a Mac, open twenty folders on said HD, close out, connect the HD to your PC and look at the folders again in Windows. Now ponder the mystery of twenty new files named "DS.Store."
After you've finished kvetching about the horrors of Mac Spew and complaining no longer gives you that special electric thrill (kidding!), install OnyX on the Mac, configure it not to leave DS.Store files on external drives, and weep with gratitude knowing the mystery files will haunt ye no more.
