Impressions of a Macbook
- The latch is badly designed
- MacOSX 10.4.9
- heavy (compared to an X40)
- 2 USB ports? That’s it? I accidentally jab the Firewire port with my USB devices
- That camera looks tiny
- Amazed how it detected the open wireless network. nice.
- Slow
- Track pads are terrible. Even my Dad concedes he hates it. Give us a nipple anyday.
- Plugging in my external USB fat32 hard drive didn’t work! With nfs to access my media, I was surprised how to listen an mp3, you have to copy the file into Itunes. Omg. And watching a movie. Quicktime with no fullscreen playback. OUCH.
- I’ve had to get used to looking at the top bar carefully
- ctrl+trackpad button is right click. OMG. Pain.
- samba doesn’t seem to work right
- I can’t figure out how to scroll through photos. I think there is some crap Canon image software (why do camera manufacturers seem compelled to ship terrible software with their hardware?) getting in my way here.
- Quite noisy when doing something
- Software update doesn’t seem able to resume unlike Debian. :(
- It absolutely HOGS the Internet connection! WTF! Do I have to implement QoS now? How can my Debian machines share the Internet and Wireless nicely, but not this Macbook?
- Can’t shut it down after an update
- Zoom is pretty cool for my dad
- I am slowly starting to discover the shortcuts and how to manage Windows. Alt+Tab fealt wrong though. Can’t launch dictionary. Maybe it’s not installed?
- The interface isn’t that great. Intuitive my ass. They often move the close button about.
- Updating Itunes, “Please quit iTune before conti…” Pity it can’t update a running application like Debian.
- Installing .dmg files isn’t nearly as easy as apt-get
- When I close the lid, it stops doing what it supposed to do. I HATE THAT. If you have power, do not suspend whatever.
- The shell and some sensible default applications like vim is quite nice
- I’m not a fan of the widescreen dimensions.
Btw this is my Dad’s Macbook. I’m still married to Debian SID and a Thinkpad.