| It's merely personal opinion based on personal experiences. Since it's a sunny day outside I'd like to expand on this topic here: [1] Window management/Apple touch pad:
UX on window/workspace management, Cupertino did it right. As advanced users we open a lot of windows, not like my mom who would simply freak out when there are more than 2, she only look at one full screen window a time. Win8's metro app is natural for her but optional at best for me.
Mac:
Four finger up for Expose then pick the Terminal/Sublime/Browser window;
Four finger swipe left/right for virtual desktops;
I am flying through workspaces over that single 5 inch physical square, much less effort and drama than surface: fiddling through touch keypad/10.6" touch screen swipes/dropping and picking surface pen constantly.
One trick on mac is that I usually swipe a little to quickly sneak peak: say inbox list or server dashboard on my right virtual desktop to quickly check up on stuffs. [2] Local search
see comments above [3] Windows Update
A feel of being bullied, simply put. It prolong when you need it start up and do sth quick. It shut down when you dont want it to, and it never tell you what's changed, what is updating and how long it is going to be. [4] Hibernate/sleep/Power button.
Redmond never got this right and never do I see them willing to. Out of my 2 years experience with surface, I would say at least 5 time it crashed while waking up from hibernate. at least one time I remembered vividly because I lost several hundreds lines of arduino code.
Many time right after switching off, then I realized I missed something: have to wait at least 5 seconds to switch it on again. Stressing that power button would only make it worse.
Surface has sensitive power button to the outside: every other day or two, I found my bag frying hot and surface drained all its battery inside, making it useless for the rest of the day if on the move. [5] Color tone
This maybe picking bone out of eggs. But I would say those Disney like highly saturated UI palette are somewhat distraction (blue bars/amber buttons/red squares), compared to OSX's neutral gray color tone which let you easier focusing on the content working on. |