Mac Pro and Cons

So time or the first “switch to mac summary”. Expect more later.

So far things i like:

  • UNIX
  • awesome design
  • the hardware looks solid
  • the screen is pretty bright and non glossy!
  • nice internals, big memory
  • bootcamp

Things i don’t like

  • Finder, hmmmm. I want Konqueror
  • Keyboard, Mouse and Internationalization settings, hmmm. I want my GNOME
  • terminal. Even with iterm the keybindings have crazy bad defaults. I want my linux and keyboard
  • where in gods name is alt gr?
  • completely different shortcuts etc.
  • nearly impossible to use the german keyboard layout for development, i guess i have to use an UK layout
  • Development, i want my apt-get

Guess i’ll switch to ubuntu again for most of my development purposes, especially because i found a keyboard mapping so that the keyboard behaves like an ordinary QWERTZ one.

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2 Responses to “Mac Pro and Cons”

  1. “where in gods name is alt gr?”

    Maybe you can use strg+alt instead? (don’t know if it’s also on the mac keyboard as on a english one)

    But by the way it would be intresting whitch MacBook did you buy?

    Best regards,
    Christopher Grebs

    Comment by EnTeQuAk — Thursday, August 30th, 2007 @ 2:09 pm

  2. No, the mapping is completely different. And before I write a keyboard layout that maps ctrl+alt something, I better map alt something.

    Comment by Armin Ronacher — Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 @ 5:16 pm

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