Is it a Wintel box, or is it a Mac?

[pne]

subbes posted a screenshot of her desktop in her journal just now.

My first reaction was envy, after having seen Perl geeks with iBooks or PowerBooks at recent YAPC::Europes... but then I saw a couple of things which didn't quite fit. First, the task bar at the bottom (or is it called "dock" in OS X?) wasn't wide enough, and second, there was a display showing space free on "C:" and "E:", which seemed unlikely... then I read the post.

Looks pretty well done, by the little I've seen of Aqua so far, but it did confuse me quit a bit at first!

(As someone else pointed out, "that's wrong!")

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Haha - most amusing. OSX is quite nice in some respects, but the thing about Macs that annoy me is the mouse! It only has one button!!! I like my tri-buttoned mouse!

[subbes]

I like having home and end keys that do what they're supposed to.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I can't say I've ever used a mac long enough to notice what home and end do - top and bottom of a document, I guess?

[subbes]

You'd expect them to move the cursor to the home/end of a line or the document.

They don't do either -- either they have no net result, or you end up looking at the end of your document but your cursor is still where it was.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That's scary... but then these features are used by the same people that are happy with one mouse button;)

[bride.livejournal.com]

Macs are too crazy for me, but I have to use it for work, so I just pull up a hillion-jillion Terminal windows and work with it like a Linux box whenever I can =D