{"id":706,"date":"2005-11-27T22:29:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T22:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moucha.cc\/charon\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-08-10T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:01:01","slug":"taste-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moucha.cc\/charon\/taste-of-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hadrware\">Apple<\/a> computers. Not really always, but definitely since first iMac. But my experience with them was almost zero as I only used ancient Powerbook in 2002 while writing my thesis. Since then I used Macs just for testing Appletalk file sharing in our upcoming product.<\/p>\n<p>I had to choose my new notebook a few weeks ago &#8230; and as I always wonder if Mac OS X is really something great or is just hype, I decided to give it a try. It probably would be better to wait for new PowerBooks as they might use new Intel chips, but I had to decide now, so I choose PowerBook 12&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>The hardware is more than OK &#8211; I love the design, specs are for my &#8220;office&#8221; type work good too, so the main question which remained is: &#8220;What can the software offer to a long time linux user ?&#8221; And the answer is of course not so easy. I thought it would be much better to use it for a longer time to overcome first troubles, so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eye candy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/overview\/aquauserinterface.html\">Aqua<\/a> user interface with all those hardware accelerated OpenGL effects is really gorgeous.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/spotlight\">Spotlight<\/a> &#8211; Spotlight search rules!<\/li>\n<li>User friendliness &#8211; Tiger has a lot of small things which make everyday usage much easier and quicker.<\/li>\n<li>Easy application management &#8211; &#8220;Drag &#038; drop the icon to your Applications folder&#8221; is the ultimate simple and idiotproof concept.<\/li>\n<li>Unix &#8211; It&#8217;s Unix under the hood, so there is always the Unix way &#8230; terminal, bash and vi :)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stupid keyboard shortcuts &#8211; Don&#8217;t really understand, why there are not possible shortcuts like CTRL+Enter or Shift+Apple etc. and there are really weird ones instead (Shift+Apple+D to send mail ?!).<\/li>\n<li>Broken OpenOffice.org &#8211; This is really thing that pisses me off and makes me constantly think of returning back to Linux: There is no native OpenOffice. It uses X11, but something is broken here, because I&#8217;m not able write national characters, because of dead key does not work. And all my documents are written in OpenDocument or StarOffice formats &#8230; damn.<\/li>\n<li>Few resources &#8211; I used to use a lot of web resources forums, wikis, mailing lists etc. to find out the answers. I wasn&#8217;t able to find such resources for Macs, especially in czech.<\/li>\n<li>And last but not least it is not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_software\">free software<\/a>!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mandatory screenshot will come later &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always liked Apple computers. Not really always, but definitely since first iMac. But my experience with them was almost zero as I only used ancient Powerbook in 2002 while writing my thesis. Since then I used Macs just for testing Appletalk file sharing in our upcoming product. 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