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Pick your personal favorite OS X feature...
1/1: Pick your personal favorite OS X feature...
Other polls | 2,915 votes | 17 comments
Stability
I come from a strong Wintel background, and having made the switch to Macs back in 2000, all I can really say about OSX is stability, stability, stability. Yes it there are some annoying niggles, but my Macs have reduced computers to tools for me. That is I turn it on, use it, save, turn it off.
Stability
Every Mac user should use Windows every now and again, if just to remind you how good you've got it with your Mac(s). Crazy masochist.
Stability
Every Mac user should use Windows every now and again, if just to remind you how good you've got it with your Mac(s).
I do... (I have to for work)... and it's not so bad as Mac evangelists tend to make it out to be. Windows XP doesn't crash all that much, although there are some errors that occur when developing that are just a bear to work with. Part of why my Windows experience is better is because I use Mozilla to block popups, Cygwin to fake UNIX, and the corporate e-mail servers and anti-virus progs generally protect the laptop from problems. But don't say anything that reminds me of Windows 98 or earlier (Windows Protection error... shudder...) That said, Macs look better, are more stable, and require fewer reboots to get the job done. :-) ---
FileVault?? ha
With the exception of FileVault, I don't think my computing would be the same without any of those features.
FileVault?? ha
I think everybody should use OS 9 now and then, so they will realize how much better OS X is.
Crazy masochist! ;)
Impossible to choose
As another commenter said, it's almost impossible to choose, since at least a half dozen of those are integral to my everyday satisfaction with OSX, and most of the rest I appreciate as well.
apples and oranges
This list compares oranges and apples... Protected memory, stability and multitasking are direct consequences of the UNIX core. The scores for those should be added to the UNIX score which would make the UNIX score overwelming. Which is as it should be. The other items are 'features' (all of which have homologues in the GNU/UNIX world) - without UNIX it'd pretty much be OS9..
apples and oranges
My wording probably wasn't the best -- Unix core was meant to mean "the ability to install and use Unix programs alongside the GUI," versus the other things which (I agree) are definitely related to having Unix at the heart of the OS...
spell check
The ability to right click and spell check a word just about everywhere you can type text is the single most wonderful feature of all time. I'll be honest here. I can't spell to save my life. When forced to use Windows at work, I have to keep a copy of Word open just so I can spell check words as I go. Surely I'm not the only one who loves this feature?
Which part I like best.
The ON switch......need I say more! ;=)
Unix has it...
I, too, found it difficult to choose: Unix inside, multitasking (incredible) and protected memory (almost no application crashes and [for me] never one which has caused a restart) are truly astounding.
Cowboy Neal
You forgot "Cowboy Neal" as an option. Oh wait. Wrong forum. :D
Cowboy Neal
Seriously! Terminal Rules! Kterm, Gterm, xterm must all bow to the power of terminal. I use it every day for most of the day, and I must say, having the transparency is nice. I have it set so I can just see text behind the terminal while still seeing what's in the terminal. I know this is a cupholder feature, but I really love it. I guess using *BSD has already spoiled me to expect protected memory and nigh crashproof-ness, so it's the polish (pah-lish) that gets my attention here.
Protected memory, no question!
The best thing is the protected memory by far. As I do publishing/labeling for my job, I've got tons of apps open. It used to be that one would crash, frequently bringing down my other open docs (even opened read-only!) and causing lots of lost time, sometimes corrupting the other apps and their documents.
It's the sidebar for me
After the Unix core and all it brings with it, one of the best OS X features for me is sidebars in windows (Finder and Open/Save). I'm always opening favorite folders from the sidebar rather than from a Favorites pulldown as in older versions of Mac OS (and sidebars only appeared in OS 10.3).
Expose!
I'd have to say the that Expose takes the cake. Terribly functional, It's one of those apps that I feel like I couldn't live without. Amazing to me why it took so long for the idea to come to fruition. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FileVault!
Well, now that I voted for XCode I wish I had made FileVault my choice. I was thinking how impressive it is that Apple makes its professional level development tools available to anyone able to buy a Mac (thinking here of all the college students). But the number able to take them up on the offer seems to be rather small. It may be free but it costs more than a little effort. |
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