The look on my face when Matlab got a ribbon menu was horrifying.
There is a right click. Boot Camp Control Panel (In the tray) > TrackPad > Secondary Click (Bottom right corner)
As far as the display goes, it beats the hell out of the terrible Carbon's screen door effect panel. And lets not even bring up the Dell E6330's we were rolling out on a regular basis before we decided on Ultrabooks.
That's a hell of a sales pitch. Screenshots are painful, standard keys are non-existent, but at least the touchpad works as well as a 5 year old version of Ubuntu :^D
Sorry, just have troubles wrapping my head around ones ability to talk about wasting money when you have a $200 video card in your link.
People have different needs/wants. Because they don't match up to yours doesn't make them dumb/trendy/whatever adjective you want to imply.
I've been a windows user for going on 20 years. I remember staffing computer labs in college in the late 90's making fun of the crashed Macs that lined the wall in one lab. There was only one or two out of about a dozen that would work at any given time. All the rest had that goofy "Mac" face stuck on the boot screen.
Times change, needs change. I picked up a Macbook air a few years back and it's one of the best computing purchases I've made. It has a better trackpad than any other laptop I have ever used/owned. It's nearly as light as tablet. The battery life is excellent. It's fast, has a sleep/recovery speed and consistency that Windows couldn't dream of. And it's got some included "consumer productivity" features like the video and photo apps that area great combination of useful & easy that I have yet to replace on a Windows machine. Toss in integration like the iCloud photo stream from iPhones and things like Face Time and it's just a very nice ecosystem.
I research my products well. There's not a serious competitor to the Macbook Air in my opinion. There's other ultrabook but they all have some cheapy quirk or lack of polish (trackpads and drivers that don't suck for them) that can't match a Macbook. The app suite Apple bundles is just icing on the cake for a lot of people.
When it comes time to replace the device, I can still resell it for a very good amount of money further reducing my total outlay for a new device. Can't say the same for Winbook.
There's nothing dumb or foolish about the purchase. It does what I need, does it well, and still has a high resale value if I want to upgrade. In three years will that $200 video card still have 50%-60% of it's value?
Yeah, all those people in the graphic design, publishing, music, and film industries don't do a damn thing.
How to easily get over 100 posts in a thread on ATOT:
- Post ANYTHING about ANY Apple product. The fanbois/haters will com out of the woodworks.
- Post Something Pro/Con Democrat/Republican.
- Blatantly Troll any subject.
What's with those hideous icons?
I see Macbooks everywhere on campus.
Except the engineering block.
Where we do actual work.
Or just put two fingers anywhere on the pad and click (default configuration).
How to easily get over 100 posts in a thread on ATOT:
- Post ANYTHING about ANY Apple product. The fanbois/haters will com out of the woodworks.
- Post Something Pro/Con Democrat/Republican.
- Blatantly Troll any subject.
Most of the engineers at my company are using Macs. Macs are great for coding Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Python.
We need a troll thread about the pros of Republicans who use Apple products :biggrin:
That's actually the one I was jesting about. That's four keys you need to hit and I have to do it so infrequently I have to google the freaking thing everytime to remember.
Printscreen. One finger. One button. *shakes cane*
I think software development is actually an exception. Not that Macs are particularly suited for it, but in that it's fairly OS agnostic. You can even code on a thin client, and if you're writing native applications the OS for your target environment can be virtualized.
The engineering work I was referring to uses specific engineering software packages that are usually developed exclusively for Windows or Linux.
I like them. It's the buuf icon set.
"barf" you say? That's an appropriate name.
You one of those guys that sends a huge screenshot that includes the taskbar or multiple monitors when you only wanted to screenshot a single app window?
In Windows, I hold [Alt] when I press [Print Screen].
Before that, I restore the window ([Alt]+[Space],[R]) and resize to the precise size I need with pixel precision to make sure it's the minimum size without a horizontal scrollbar. It helps to use the keyboard when resizing the window ([Alt]+[Space],Arrow Keys). You can hold [Ctrl] while resizing with keyboard for single-pixel precision.
I usually follow that with:
[Win]+[R],"mspaint",[Enter]
[Ctrl]+[E],[1],[Tab],[1],[Enter]
[Ctrl]+[V]
Then, I might do some resizing cropping (using various keyboard shortcuts for flipping and zooming while I do so).
Then I'll select-all ([Ctrl]+[A]) and copy-paste to somewhere else or just save the file.
I can't stand MSPAINT in Windows 7/8. It simply can't do some of the things I used to do in the previous version.
You one of those guys that sends a huge screenshot that includes the taskbar or multiple monitors when you only wanted to screenshot a single app window?
No. Alt + print screen was replaced with Windows key + S for me. One note lets me do a capture of a particular screen area. Snipping tool does that too, but it's not a hot key.
Investment would assume appreciated value. It's more along the lines of reduced risk. They hold their value very well and can be easily resold to offset the costs of newer ones. Very few other products can claim the same. It's just one nice perk that's a byproduct of a quality product that is in demand.