OS X More awesomeness and annoyances
Lets start with the good news first.
Good things:
- On battery the MacBook boots up (including the time to logon) for about 50 sec. Pretty quick if you ask me; My Vista laptop (with faster CPU and HDD) takes more than 2 minutes;
- The global shortcut key definitions and editor (System Preferences->Keyboards->Keyboard Shortcuts);
- Command-W and Command-Q keys are very convenient; I catch myself trying to use them on the PC…
Annoyances:
- It is really hard to access the menus with the keyboard. Nice that there are many shortcuts, but I am so used to Alt->Letter to access menus; Really bugs me… (To access the menus Ctrl->Shift->F2 and then arrow keys);
- Switching between windows in the same application (why on earth Command-`?) bugs me, but I can live with it.
- File management – I still can’t figure out how to move a file with the keyboard in Finder (apart from copy and then delete);
Anyway – I keep exploring. Now I study Objective-C as I get some free time and trying to write some UI apps using Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Some pretty cool stuff (and some too relaxed rules for my C++ nature);