Or so the old saying goes.
About a year ago, I purchased an Apple Mac Book Pro.
It is the most expensive single piece of computer equipment I have ever bought.
I have never regretted this. The grin that was plastered on my face has faded. It took a while, but it did. But its faded because what I THEN considered wonderful has now become common place.
Expose is just part of my life. A consistent and unobtrusive interface that just lets me get on with what I want to do is just part of my environment now. It has sunk into by background like the wallpaper in my office or the carpet under my feet.
After the initial ‘honeymoon’ period was over, and I got through the whole expiring battery debacle I settled down to normalcy with my Mac.
Every so often however, something nice will happen. Something I had never even thought about will jump up at me and say… ‘Hey! we thought of that, and this is how we are helping you’.
Well, one of those things just happened.
I was copying some files from one folder to another, and the folder I was copying to was partially off screen. When I dragged the files to that folder, it slid onto the screen so that its entire area was onscreen. No fuss, no muss, no fanfairs, just… Hey, lets make Peters life just that LITTLE bit easier.
WONDERFUL!
Apple, and particulary, the engineer or UI person who thought of that, I promise, I will NEVER kiss you. And that, folks, should be recompense enough.
If you have never played with a Mac, please do yourself a favour, go to an apple store and just PLAY with one of the machines for a while.
But remember, beauty is NOT just skin deep, or not at Apple anyway.