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The most satisfying part of switching to an Android phone has been uninstalling iTunes

That’s how you do I/O

Got a new keyboard today!  Well, I say “new”, I found it collecting dust at my uncle’s place, next to a Pentium 4 machine, which probably makes it at least 9 years old.

None the less, it has nice, deep travel keys, dedicated media keys, dedicated volume knob (so nice) dedicated web navigation keys, very tall feet (I like my keyboards sloped) and two USB pass-through ports on the back. So far, the Dell SK-8135 crushes every Apple keyboard I’ve ever used. Maybe every keyboard I’ve ever used.

#keyboard #dell

Four thumb drives, a mouse and an external hard drive. Do that with your Macbook.

#ports #thinkpad #computer

This bus has more I/O than the average Macbook

Finding your cursor

When you have loads of screens, and loads of windows open, you come back to your desk after something and you think yo your self

“Where’s my damn cursor?”

And then you shake the mouse back and forth trying to find it.

If you do that in OSX, it notices, and blows the cursor up really big so you can more easily find it.

Good job Apple. Really.

This is the kind of thing they should be doing more of. Little things that make the computing experience more enjoyable. Not removing basic functions like USB-A and user swappable RAM and SSDs.

This, their excellent mouse gestures, good speakers, and (until recently) decent keyboards, are all some of the things I will continue to praise Apple computers for.

#usability #praise #well done apple

A real computer

#lenovo #thinkstation #desktop #computer

Can't do this on the new Macbooks.

#io #ports #useful #oldschool #macbook #apple #magsafe #ethernet #thunderbolt #mini display port #usb-a #sd card #3.5mm #mic #headphone

It’s dying

My Macbook is making a rattling noise. I hope it’s the fan, not the drive. One more fault to add to the list. I promised myself I’d make this thing die before I replace it, and this together with the graphics driver glitches and coil whine when idle tell me this piece of shit is close to the end. And I didn’t even need to drop it.

#broken #faulty #malfunction #dying #apple #macbook #laptop

iTunes complaint

When I right-click on a song in iTunes, I should be given an option to open the song in a different music player. A good music player. Like Foobar. Or VLC. Or Windows Media Player.

#itunes #apple #music #music player