Windows.. it's like coming home! 3405

So I have heard. There's clearly a problem here for Apple, and it's not just one model of laptop that's skanky.

That is a nice touch. This Toshiba has some on the sides, more on the back, and has the temerity to stick the audio jacks in the front, which is just about the worst place.

Ah, there's no shame in Java. There's sugar in it. Two lumps.

But I had little use for the ambient light adjustments, and none at all for the backlit keyboard.

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I can never figure out what it is about Outlook Express that drives the Maccies away.

It's very functional and very mature. It's just the UI is a throwback to the late Jurrasic.

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I would not be comfortable with that UI, I think; that's still above 100 dpi.

But resolution independance is coming to the Mac; I just won't be waiting for it.

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Yes, that's so. Perhaps I should have seen it coming. But I did not.

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I can- to x86-64. I wonder how long the 32 bit apps will be supported, after Apple's entire lineup is 64-bit.

Of course, they'd be crazy to cut off the 32-bit stuff while the Intel transition is underrway. That may give 32-bit apps a extended lease on life.

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I do not really agree here. They lasted for many years without making any transition; they should have spent that time on the transition, rather than wait as long as they did.

In 1993 it wasn't that far behind, and by then the future direction they needed was plain, and MS had already articulated their strategy. And then dumped OS-2 and articulated their new strategy. :D

2 of every apps? You mean a male one and a female one?

If you work it out, it actually took MS about as long as Apple to get to their current OS. MS didn't rush the transition, but they didn't sit still for any extended period either.

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So I have heard. But a lot of effort has already gone into MS's and Sun's memory managers at this point; Apple has some catching up to do.

We'll see how well they do.

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It's the worst I've seen, but it's symptomatic; a lot of the old OS 9 apps have at least parts of their UI that remains very much as a it was. The preferences dialogs are common culprits here, I've noticed.

MT-Newswatcher is special because they don't seem to have upgraded *anything* in the UI.

Go right ahead.. I can take it! :D

(Famous last words, eh?)

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We'll see. Don't forget that Apple's applications are also culprit's here.

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Experimenting with it, I observe that it does not do this; it reindexes only changed files.

It does not need any new kernel code for this; XP already has the NTFS Change Journal, which lets you watch for changes volume wide. You only need to reindex fully if it missing changes, because there were too many changes while it was shut down, and the buffer overflowed.

However, it does avoid indexing while the computer is in use, which will presumably mean greater delays that Spotlight shows.

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Yes. I don't do this until I need to; but it's better than scrolling, or squashing the buttons to very tiny sizes (which is the only thing the Dock can do).

This is true. The taskbar's buttons have unpredictable placement in this way; but at least the buttons do not *always* move when another one is added.

They stay in the same order, but shift to the side as new items are added, to keep the Dock centered.

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They do. Watch more closely while launching an app not already in the dock- the icons move to make room for it, and it maintain centering.

I prefer the Start Menu; it does require an extra click to summon it, but that allows it to both contain a lot more functionality, and also use less real estate when inactive.

I know. I have long prefered document-centric UI to apps centric, however, which is one reason I prefer working with windows to working with processes.

As long as you never launch any app not in the dock, and never minimize a window, you are safe!

It may just be different mental models at work here; I'm never concerned about whether an app is running- that's Windows problem. I am looking for a window.

There's something to that, but I found Spotlight surprisingly slow on my PowerBook G4; annoyingly slow to use as a program launcher. Windows Desktop Search doesn't have that problem, but then, this isn't a G4 either.

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