Wednesday afternoon my Mac went to sleep, as it normally does when I’m not around. I disconnected it (with no drives pluggedin) and went to my local coffee shop to finish out several emails I needed to respond to. When I got there, my Mac refused to wake up. I did the usual fixes but nothing work – which resulted in my visit to the Apple store.
Since then (and since my Mac is @ the Apple store for the next several days), I’ve been using a Sony Vaio we had laying around the office. Its a nice, lightweight machine with a Centrino Duo processor and XP. But within minutes, I started to make a list of the things I miss from my Mac and things I forgot I liked about PCs.
Missing about my Mac…
- Placement and funciton of control/command type keys
- Not having to deal with a static “start” bar that consumes a lot of space (and I think “auto hide” makes it worse)
- Spaces – I never realized how much I used that until now
- Auto-scrolling speeds on the mouse (the Mac adapts to the speed at which you move the mouse – the PC is one-speed-for-all based on what you set it to be)
- CMD+SHIFT+F4 (brings up a screen capture utility)
- Quicktime being “there” already
- Smooth fonts
- Spacebar preview (in Finder)
I forgot PCs are nice because…
- Applications are easier to find (when you need to install them)
- “Windows” key functionality like “WIN+R” to bring up the “run” command. Quicksilver does that on a Mac but I don’t think it does it as well.
- Network drives are MUCH easier to deal with on a PC (why do I have to MOUNT a network drive on a Mac each time I want to use it!?)
- Full Lotus product support (Quickr connectors, Notes 8, etc. – they’re all here on Windows and work great)
Despite realizing that there are things I miss from the Windows/PC world, I’m still anxious to get my Mac back!
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