Mac OS X Lion: How Apple’s Turning Your Mac into an iPad(bostinnovation.com)

14 pointsby jerrelp15 lat temu3 comments

Mac OS X Lion: How Apple’s Turning Your Mac into an iPad

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/25/mac-os-x-lion-how-apple%E2%80%99s-turning-your-mac-into-an-ipad/

3 comments

yawn

I do get tired of these "recieved wisdom" nuggets as seen in the headline here - see also "ipad is for consuming only" and "linux not suitable for desktop" (although that one seems to have died a death) etc. etc. and of course the actual article is a rather mundane overview of one or two of the features

Since I'm here: is Lion turning into iOS - no. I'm finding it makes me even more effective - I fly round my Air like I can fly round my source code with Vim. I find the gestures and the trackpad make a mouse feel like a clumsy ancient thing, Launchpad is acutally not too bad sometimes - gesture tap is quicker than ctrl-space typing enter (I use launchbar now - switched from quicksilver when it was going through rough times). Mission control, or whatever it's called, is much better than spaces and expose - I love the re-arrange spaces so apps I alt-tab between are close to each other. I find that full screen and focusing on a single task is much better for my concentraion - and was something I've been trying to do since long before I got Lion.

this is actually a power users update whatever you might hear

Zachhack15 lat temu

Even with Launchpad, I still find myself defaulting to Spotlight to find/execute my apps.

dlsspy15 lat temu

I still use quicksilver. That's going to be a bit sad when I give that up. I use functionality in it that doesn't exist anywhere else, though.