Macs aren’t Perfekt
by Adam Kerrison | 08 May 2007 | Permalink | Hardware, Macarati
Like most people, when my job takes to out of the office, I use a laptop. I’ve been using laptops for about 13 years now – I’m old enough to remember the early “portable” computers like the Sun Voyager! – and with that one exception, they have all run Windows…
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OSX wins, but Vista is worse than XP.
by Alex Horstmann | 17 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
A very interesting report was published in February which analysed Vistas, XPs and Mac OSXs usability by Pfeifer Consulting, which did some very detailed analysis of the Mac and Windows UI. It conculded that (naturally) OSX was the superior UI, but also that Vista/Aero is worse than XP!
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Why the Apple Menu Fitts!
by Alex Horstmann | 12 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
The following point was part of a comment posted in response to my last article:
the single menu at the top of the screen is more confusing than helpful,
I’d like to comment on this as it is a common “issue” that Mac-o-phobes quote when trying to…
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Unpack a Mac
by Alex Horstmann | 11 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
I have to say, I think that I may be hooked! Even after I had bought my Mac and I was waiting it for it be designed in California, manufactured in Shanghai and assembled in Cork and shipped to me I was having moments where I was wondering if I…
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Joining the Macarati
by Alex Horstmann | 13 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Macarati
The what? The Macarati! A term dubbed by our own Will Harris which refers to people that own an Apple Mac.
You see, I have been drooling over the sleekness and sexiness of that pinnacle of industrial design that is the MacBook Pro. Its brushed metal veneer which…
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