I have had a Mac now for about 5 months. Before that I was very much a Windows user. Back in the day, I could never see the day when I would be a Mac user. Possibly because my first experience with a Mac was when I worked in tech support at a call centre. The vast majority of the calls were Windows so sorting the problems was pretty much all no problem.
However, we occasionally got calls from Mac users. The support pages we had on the Mac were not as extensive as for Windows and no being a Mac user day to day, to was much more difficult. This was well before the days of Max OSX and I think it would have been Mac OS 8.
Anyway, I decided it was time for a change and after seeing the video about Mac OSX Lion I was impressed with certain features. I also liked what I had seen on Snow Leopard. It was also time for an upgrade of my computer and being a web designer, having a Mac almost seems to make sense.
Using Mac OSX Lion took a little bit to get used to with certain things different. Overall I was very happy with it but it still had several things which were a bit annoying.
- No “cut” in Finder – you have to drag and drop files if you want to move file from one folder to another
- Clicking ENTER key, renames a file/folder instead of opening/executing.
- Sorting folders – its alphabetical but it doesn’t have the folders at top and then files. It treats folders and files the same. It would be much better if it hold folders at the top and then other files.
- Delete button is a backspace button really. Have had to get used to pressing Function + Delete to “Delete”
- No END button. No Page Up/Down.
- Red cross close button for windows sometimes doesn’t work. Have to click it a few times. Maybe its because the window isn’t in focus?? – Mac OSX Lion bug??
- No button to reload/refresh when in Finder
- Not being able to rename Launchpad folder – possible BUG as previously been able to??
- Not many different columns you can add/display in Finder e.g. dimensions
- In Finder, if you select more than one file and select Get Info, instead of showing the total file size of those files, you get dialog boxes popping up showing the info for each individual file.
