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by jrockway
6326 days ago
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> It's an old adage that design isn't how something looks, it's how it works. Macbooks have far more elegant functionality. How? When I want to plug a USB device into my Thinkpad, I put the USB device near a USB port and apply pressure to the device. When performing this operation with a Mac, the sequence of events is the same. (I could go on, but won't.) There is just no difference. > I don't look at it that way: I look at built-in experience. I think that customization is a waste of time. No offense, but I think your mind will be changed after you are out of college and need to do $MAXIMAL_TASKS in $MINIMAL_TIME. A day spent customizing something pays for itself very quickly in increased productivity. If you have plenty of free time, you might not care, but if you have more to do than there are hours in a day, you will want to save as much time as possible. I don't have time for the computer to tell me what to do. (But I do have time to write HN comments... hmm...) |
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Okaydoke: we'll go from the external stuff ONLY. There's the MagSafe power connector, which I love. There's the built-in iSight that's so pervasive any app writer can build in a camera, which is really neat. There's the fact that the computer suspends as soon as you close the case, wakes as soon as you open it. There's the smoothness of the CD drive. The Unibody case in the new Macbooks, the beautiful little divet you use to wake the computer up, and the function buttons that handle iTunes controls, ejecting. The light-up keys. Stop saying there's no difference.
No offense, but I think your mind will be changed after you are out of college and need to do $MAXIMAL_TASKS in $MINIMAL_TIME. A day spent customizing something pays for itself very quickly in increased productivity. If you have plenty of free time, you might not care, but if you have more to do than there are hours in a day, you will want to save as much time as possible.
Which is why it's a good thing that Mac is full-fledged Unix, so that I can customize every aspect using terminal, I can skin the entire thing, I can modify every little aspect of it to work exactly how I want, and I can go to emacs and do everything I need, right?
The Mac is customizable. I can do anything I want to with it. The fact that I don't is because I don't want to. There's a very healthy Mac-modding community out there.