Members misterhinkydink Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 No more keyboard. Jobs says, "It gets in the way of human progress". [YOUTUBE]nTeO_E96tm4[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 A client brought in their MacBook Air to have me/us set up some accounting software on it. About 15 mins into the thing, I called the client and said you come up here and I'll tell you what to do. What a useless POS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 A client brought in their MacBook Air to have me/us set up some accounting software on it. About 15 mins into the thing, I called the client and said you come up here and I'll tell you what to do. What a useless POS! Or what a useless installer... Depends on how you look at it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Or what a useless installer... Depends on how you look at it... Negative. You can't have a business machine that can't "right click". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 A client brought in their MacBook Air to have me/us set up some accounting software on it. About 15 mins into the thing, I called the client and said you come up here and I'll tell you what to do. What a useless POS! Seriously...you couldn't figure it out? They've been able to right click for years now. I use it all the time. Seriously? But back to the topic, that was a pretty funny video from the Onion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Seriously...you couldn't figure it out? They've been able to right click for years now. Seriously? +1 . . . :Sigh: You send them to school, you buy them books, and they can't even right click!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Seriously...you couldn't figure it out? Seriously? I had it figured out, I just didn't want to wade through all the security junk they had on it and they couldn't remember, etc.. It wasn't like rocket science, but I just wasn't going to waste time on it. It's like they WANT it to be more difficult to find stuff on. Plus the "magnetic" power connection wouldn't stay put so it'd intermittently shut off b/c I guess the battery was faulty. Nothing on it would work right. The CD drive would sputter and run and make noises to high heaven. It was very meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 +1 . . . :Sigh: You send them to school, you buy them books, and they can't even right click!!! I paid dearly for that privilege, dammit!!! :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I paid dearly for that privilege, dammit!!! :mad: I'm just pulling your chain. I know how you feel. When i bought this macbook, my first, it took me almost 45 seconds to figure out how to right click and it was really frustrating!!! :poke: Must have been an external CD drive cause I have not seen a macbook air with an internal one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I'm just pulling your chain. I know how you feel. When i bought this macbook, my first, it took me almost 45 seconds to figure out how to right click and it was really frustrating!!! :poke:Must have been an external CD drive cause I have not seen a macbook air with an internal one. Ok but seriously how do you? I mean I clicked the right side of the bar repeatedly and it wouldn't do crap!The CD drive was external, and it took me a good 5 mins to figure out how to eject the damn disk! There's no button on the drive.I guess when you figure it all out it's ok, but everything on the machine, the computer itself, the OS, the menus were all so counter-intuitive it drove me crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I guess when you figure it all out it's ok, but everything on the machine, the computer itself, the OS, the menus were all so counter-intuitive it drove me crazy. The OS is quite intuitive once you learn it. However, you have to spend some time getting comfortable with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Ok but seriously how do you? I mean I clicked the right side of the bar repeatedly and it wouldn't do crap!The CD drive was external, and it took me a good 5 mins to figure out how to eject the damn disk! There's no button on the drive.I guess when you figure it all out it's ok, but everything on the machine, the computer itself, the OS, the menus were all so counter-intuitive it drove me crazy. Here are the methods I use: 1) Place two fingers on touch pad and then click the button. 2) Hold down Control button and click the button 3) Use external mouse that has all buttons (Blue tooth rocks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 The OS is quite intuitive once you learn it. However, you have to spend some time getting comfortable with it. Isn't that the opposite of intuitive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members venturawest Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 huh? it took 45 minutes for the guy to "type" an email with 4 lines -and about a hundred typos. i type 80 words a minute. you couldn't pay me to buy that POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 huh? it took 45 minutes for the guy to "type" an email with 4 lines -and about a hundred typos. i type 80 words a minute. you couldn't pay me to buy that POS. It's a spoof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Isn't that the opposite of intuitive? See above... Anyway I'm sure I could have figured it all out, but again it was for a client and I wasn't going to waste billing time just messing with the machine especially if I didn't have the right access info anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 huh? it took 45 minutes for the guy to "type" an email with 4 lines -and about a hundred typos. i type 80 words a minute. you couldn't pay me to buy that POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I want one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Yes, I plan on getting a Macbook next year, but I'll never use the pad. I'm just so ingrained with the mouse I can't switch my pointing device at all. And my mouse of choice I use now on this iMac is a Logitech MX518. All the buttons on it work fine on the Mac...plus you can assign what they do right in the System Prefs of the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 That's hilarious! All of your files are just a few hundred clicks away. It remains to be seen if the Wheel will catch on in the business world where people use computers for actual work, and not just dicking around. Also, pause the video and read some of the sentences from the "predictive sentence technology". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members venturawest Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 It's a spoof. just saw that it was the "onion news network". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Yes, I plan on getting a Macbook next year, but I'll never use the pad. I'm just so ingrained with the mouse I can't switch my pointing device at all. And my mouse of choice I use now on this iMac is a Logitech MX518. All the buttons on it work fine on the Mac...plus you can assign what they do right in the System Prefs of the OS. I hate the mighty mouse thing. I currently use a Razer mouse from the Apple store, but have use a USB Logitech and a Logitech Blue Tooth mouse and both worked great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I hate the mighty mouse thing. I currently use a Razer mouse from the Apple store, but have use a USB Logitech and a Logitech Blue Tooth mouse and both worked great. yeah, I don't like the Mighty Mouse either. Apple's mice have never been that good in my opinion. I'm just glad I was using PC's during their whole "hocky puck mouse" phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members niomosy Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 The OS is quite intuitive once you learn it. However, you have to spend some time getting comfortable with it. That seems wrong, to me. Amiga - I played with a it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. This on an old Amiga 500. Atari - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. Geos - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. Windows 3.1 - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. OS/2 - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. Windows 95 - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. KDE/Gnome - I played with it a tiny bit and felt comfortable. Note: this is for rather recent versions only. Previous versions created headaches before I got them to the point of comfort. CDE (Common Desktop Environment, a Unix thing) - I played with it a bit and felt comfortable. Mac OS - I basically know where everything is now, but it seems more painful than it need be. Can't comment on BeOS, NeXT, Plan 9, the Acorn computers and RiscOS and some of the other smaller operating systems as I never got to try those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Amiga Atari Geos Windows 3.1 OS/2 Windows 95 KDE/Gnome CDE (Common Desktop Environment, a Unix thing) Mac OS BeOS, NeXT, Plan 9, the Acorn computers and RiscOS Wow, I've used all of those except for Plan 9. I'm such a fricken nerd. Out of all of them I like OS X the best and NeXTStep second best. I mean, I was fricken in LOVE with NeXTStep. We used a NeXT computer at one of the pre-press shops I used to work for. I had them buy it at the time because it ran on DisplayPostscript...and we were doing the old Sears catalog. We would get in straight Postscript files from the client for the text and we had to somehow strip out the color text from the black text...so I wrote a quick program on the excellent NeXT development platform (I'm not a programmer by the way, which shows how easy it was to do) to do just that then display the results on the screen by RIPing the Postscript directly using DisplayPostscript. I know, boring stuff...but it was exciting at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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