Re:
(Please don't jump down my throat)
. . .
I'm totally with you on that one, SevengerNC. I'm planning to boot directly to Windows on the Mac hardware almost all the time and not use OS X unless I have a need to (like a development project). My biggest concerns at this point:
1. All my other software is Windows.
2. I'm super-fast with Windows and do a lot of things average users don't know how to do, but I'll will be crippled on OS X for months if not years.
3. Files are not necessarily portable back & forth between the two because of "forks" containing some of the content on Mac. This is an especially serious problem for me for .url's. (I have thousands of .url files and need them transparently working and easily synched on all platforms -- Win, OSX, iOS, and someday Android).
4. The keyboard layout is a little odd (by Windows standards & vice versa) which will take a long time to get used to, and I'll constantly be klutzed-up when switching back & forth between OS's unless I reprogram OS X to swap some key keys.
5. The MB keyboards are missing a couple of things (compared to the only kind of WinTel laptops I'd consider) that seem important to my efficiency:
- Mac seems to think that a backspace (delete prior character) suffices instead of a separate delete key (delete next character). Maybe there's a two-handed alternative way but I need a single-finger, single stroke to be efficient.
- Separate PgUp, PgDn, Home, End keys don't exist on MacBooks, and as far as I know the closest equivalent requires using both hands at the same time instead of just one hand. I rely on single-handed use of those keys thousands of times a day.
6. I'm ignorant about how long file names can be and don't want to risk it being worse that the limits Windows already has. Ideally I'd love to be able to have a 200 character filename under a 500 character folder path (e.g., a 100 char folder under a 100 char folder under a 100 char folder . . . and finally a 200 char filename). What's the limit? That's how I like to organize citations references heirarchically (with the title including a short reminder of the content).
Respectfully,
macimby