I recently bought an iPhone, and I have fairly large hands, and when I talk I hold the phone in my right hand. As such, I cannot talk without a case, for fear of dropping the call.
Also, I'm on an ATT family plan so my options were iPhone or terrible other ATT phone.
"I came *THIS CLOSE* (holds fingers close together) to buying a Macbook Pro a month ago - it was the lack of a right mouse button..."
You've got to be kidding. Right mouse click works perfectly fine on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, and on both Windows XP and Fedora Core Linux using Parallels.
Why? What was so great about the old Finder that's not present in the OS X Finder? There's icon view, list view, and column view (not present in pre OS X finder)...what am I missing? It works absolutely consistently for me. And believe me, I'm on this damn thing all day.
I've also used the Explorer "finder" and everytime, it gives me the willys. Which I guess just means that I'm accustomed to using one over the other.
I have to agree. A colleague just spent a day and half trying to figure out why he was getting random freezes. He was using Conflict Catcher (against my advice), and everytime he ran it, it told him a different extension to pull out......then he found out the random and intermittent freezes (no cursor movement) were caused by a failing mouse (short in the cord)! I've "forbidden" him to use CC again.
This problem is not limited to NFS. I often connect to drives at work from home using AFS. If I forget to unmount them before closing the lid on my powerbook, and then wake my computer up later, quite often (but not always) the Finder hangs with the spinning ball. Sometimes a force quit of the Finder or even the machine itself is the only way out of it.
By the way, I believe FSCK runs automatically on startup (this was added at some point with the 10.2 updates). Compare the times it takes to reboot a machine that you've forced a restart vs. the time after a normal shutdown.
Don't go bashing the Centris--I've got a 650 running in my lab that bascially hasn't been turned off since I got it in late 1993 (it runs a small ccd camera for capturing images of electrophoresis gels). Same original hard drive and power supply.
say the BSA is coming around. "It's time to make sure those licenses are in order." And the aggressive sales rep will go on to say just how the BSA has come down on this or that company because of illegal licenses. This happened to me, and my (government) organization, last year. I blew him off (I won't say the company but it has the words PC and Mall in their name), but someone at the center panicked. What ensued was a month of auditing software licenses, and I believe we were essentially compliant (I know my group was). I later found out he and his company were encouraged to use such scare tactics. Needless to say, I will never purchase anything from that company again and I was spending 5-10K a year with them.
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I recently bought an iPhone, and I have fairly large hands, and when I talk I hold the phone in my right hand. As such, I cannot talk without a case, for fear of dropping the call.
Also, I'm on an ATT family plan so my options were iPhone or terrible other ATT phone.
Afraid? Or have you really had dropped calls?
You've got to be kidding. Right mouse click works perfectly fine on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, and on both Windows XP and Fedora Core Linux using Parallels.
What's supposed to not happen with these pages? Fedex.com opens just fine for me (10.3.5, Safari 1.2.3).
...betamax
The last time I registered a new computer (2 months ago), the same survey had the same error.
The previous author should probably review this: (University of Washington) Computer Usage Limitations.
I've also used the Explorer "finder" and everytime, it gives me the willys. Which I guess just means that I'm accustomed to using one over the other.
Isn't that really the point?
Hmm...the iPod I just bought shipped from Shanghai.
I have to agree. A colleague just spent a day and half trying to figure out why he was getting random freezes. He was using Conflict Catcher (against my advice), and everytime he ran it, it told him a different extension to pull out. .....then he found out the random and intermittent freezes (no cursor movement) were caused by a failing mouse (short in the cord)! I've "forbidden" him to use CC again.
This problem is not limited to NFS. I often connect to drives at work from home using AFS. If I forget to unmount them before closing the lid on my powerbook, and then wake my computer up later, quite often (but not always) the Finder hangs with the spinning ball. Sometimes a force quit of the Finder or even the machine itself is the only way out of it. By the way, I believe FSCK runs automatically on startup (this was added at some point with the 10.2 updates). Compare the times it takes to reboot a machine that you've forced a restart vs. the time after a normal shutdown.
Don't go bashing the Centris--I've got a 650 running in my lab that bascially hasn't been turned off since I got it in late 1993 (it runs a small ccd camera for capturing images of electrophoresis gels). Same original hard drive and power supply.
No problems on a newly upgraded iMac 400 DV
say the BSA is coming around. "It's time to make sure those licenses are in order." And the aggressive sales rep will go on to say just how the BSA has come down on this or that company because of illegal licenses. This happened to me, and my (government) organization, last year. I blew him off (I won't say the company but it has the words PC and Mall in their name), but someone at the center panicked. What ensued was a month of auditing software licenses, and I believe we were essentially compliant (I know my group was). I later found out he and his company were encouraged to use such scare tactics. Needless to say, I will never purchase anything from that company again and I was spending 5-10K a year with them.