Apple: MacBook Manual Surprises
This is a list of things that surprised me while reading the manual for my MacBook:
- Use two fingers on the touchpad to scroll.
- It doesn't come with a modem.
- The lowest model MacBook can burn CDs but not DVDs.
- Hit F3 (without fn) or F10 (with fn) to use expose.
- Turn it off if you're not going to use it for a day or two.
- Putting it to sleep decreases the chances of damaging the hard drive while moving it.
- Use "fn delete" to delete characters to the right of the cursor.
- The manual use to say that if you added memory yourself you would void your warranty. It now says that you'll only void your memory if you mess up ;-)
- Hold down D while booting to use Apple Hardware Test.
- The printed manual is only in English.
Comments
Fastest way to move data between two Macs.
Ah, you know me well ;)
> I leave both my work and home macbooks (Original MacbookPro and 12-month old Macbook) in sleep mode all the time. I typically go 2+ weeks between actual reboots.
Yeah, that's my favorite feature so far. Going from 2 hours of battery life to 5 makes all the difference in the world. I no longer bother with bringing my power adapter with me when I go to the coffee shop or to meet with people.
I ended up really disliking Emacs per my post here: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/03/vim-why-i-like-vim.html I seem to go through an Emacs phase every couple years, and I always en up back with Vim.
I decided I still liked Python more than Ruby, but I was sick of Web development. Hence, my current job is mostly not Web related.
The Mac is nice. It's really the hardware I like best. 5 hours of battery life rules, and suspend works really well. I haven't really started using anything proprietary yet. I'm still all about Vim, zsh, Flock, Python, etc.
I thought about it a lot, and I explained it here:
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/02/hybrid-world-of-open-and-closed-source.html
I just had to add two lines in my xorg.conf to get my lenovo with nvidia hardware to suspend / resume.
But I type this on a MacBook Pro ... I have to say it's a really nice hardware. One thing I really like is the screen, that is probably back-lighted so you can see it's content everywhere even when there is some sun coming in.