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Originally Posted by Sly
I hear this often but I don't really understand it.
What exactly makes you more productive?
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Basically a Mac OSX system at first glance to a windows user looks like a giant clusterfuck right ?
well over time you learn to treat that clusterfuck like a messy room, it looks like a clusterfuck but you know exactly where everything is.
So you guys see our windows all over the place and think WTF, well we just click back and forth between those windows easy pie, never going to any start menu, programs menu and back and forth between maximized windows etc.
anything I need is at the flick of a wrist.
Flick high right, I have my weather, calculator, color picker, anything I need like that.
Flick low right, All my program windows show themselves so I can easily click to the window I'm looking for, My system is set up a little fancier than this, but this is general idea of Mac workflow.
Combine spaces, expose and a quick mouse setting and you have basically a gesture based system that's fully intuitive.
If you're like me, you'll find you use more hotkeys than anything, and often when working in front of people they are amazed at how fast you work and flip through all your shit, without barely clicking the mouse.
Overall, I mean it's hard to explain but it's an environment much better suited to fast paced work. I find windows very constrictive... Full screen applications that are usually clunky and poorly designed for navigation and workflow, you won't find this on a mac.
Honestly the $$ was worth it for me to be rid of virii and spyware for good, if nothing else.
Just that fuckign frustration I went through every damn week at least on PC was enough to get me to switch.