{"id":1715,"date":"2005-09-16T20:51:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T20:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1715.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"mac-switching-update-fri-16-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/16\/mac-switching-update-fri-16-sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Switching update, Fri 16 Sep"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Dell sent out a courier with a replacement monitor for my faulty 2005FPW today.  Not happy.  The replacement is a refurbished monitor rather than a new one.  It&#8217;s a 1st revision model (rather than the 2rd revision one I had), and as such suffers from a very annoying backlight bleeding.  It has one stuck pixel right in the middle of the screen, and one dead pixel close by.  (The previous monitor had one stuck subpixel, but it was right at the edge of the screen.)  The new monitor also has a bash at the top.  Not happy at all.  This one is going straight back again on Monday.\n<li>I&#8217;ve ordered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596009410\/\">David Pogue Mac OSX book<\/a>, which will hopefully enlighten me about the hidden corners of Macdom.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still not liking the Apple Pro keyboard.  I&#8217;m a hard typist, striking the keys with a lot of noisy force, and I&#8217;m finding that I&#8217;m getting a lot of duplicated keystrokes.  Or do you think this might be a fault in the keyboard?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m having a hard time getting used to the altered control\/alt key modifiers.  Copy and Paste is the worst one:  I&#8217;m so used to hittting the Ctrl key with my left pinkie, and then picking up C or V with my left forefinger.  The Mac keystrokes are [Apple]+C, and [Apple]+V, and the [Apple] key rests under my <em>thumb<\/em>.  Getting my pinkie over there feels unnatural, and using my thumb instead feels unnatural.  The whole thing is freaking me out a bit.  I suppose I just need to give it more time.<\/li>\n<li>Mouse tracking is also causing me some problems.  For small mouse movements, the mouse cursor doesn&#8217;t accelerate as quickly as it does in Windows.  For large mouse movements, no problem.  But when  moving in small increments, trying to hit smaller targets (like menu options, or &#038;*%$ checkboxes&#8211;see below) feels &#8220;sticky&#8221;.  It&#8217;s like my mouse has picked up some dirt, and isn&#8217;t moving properly.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> hating not being able to tab to drop-down lists, checkboxes, or controls other than textboxes.  There <em>must<\/em> be a way that I haven&#8217;t found yet.  I&#8217;m hoping that the Pogue book will hold some clues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the positive front, iPhoto is rather nice.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/quicksilver.blacktree.com\/\">Quicksilver<\/a> looks like it will add some keyboard lovin&#8217; to the whole system.<\/p>\n<p>More updates soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell sent out a courier with a replacement monitor for my faulty 2005FPW today. Not happy. The replacement is a refurbished monitor rather than a new one. It&#8217;s a 1st revision model (rather than the 2rd revision one I had), and as such suffers from a very annoying backlight bleeding. It has one stuck pixel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/16\/mac-switching-update-fri-16-sep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Switching update, Fri 16 Sep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}