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I'm finding mroe and more annoying things about Windows.

While I really saw some of the annoying issues pop out when I did my PC to Mac switch, even more appeared now that I have a PC "laptop" again. Thankfully it will never really be used as a laptop, since I have the Powerbook, but things I notice all the time:

1. Screen brightness. My Powerbook sets the brightness based on the ambient light. The PC, well, has two settings, bright or dim when it gets unplugged. Didn't notice how much I like this feature till I was without it on another system. My CRTs at work have light sensors to do the same thing.

2. Battery life reporting. On an Apple machine, the battery goes from 100 to 0%, then the machine goes to sleep. Sleep will probably last 12 hours at most, with that time shortened with more memory. If it falls asleep, simply pull the battery and put the new one in. PC, starts panicking at 20% and will never hit 0% and properly sleep. I remember my old Armada, and the constant tweaks I had to do in the power settings to get it to hibernate in time before the battery dropped completly dead. Off by a bit, and work loss occured. I also did not dare to put it to sleep, and the idea of it recovering from sleep in a matter of seconds like the Powerbook is a joke.

3. Slot load drive. I despise tray load drives on a laptop now, they just feel so fragile. Slot load gets around that issue.

4. Little touches, like the power adaptor coming with a built in cable wrap, and easy to swap out international plugs. They even went to the trouble of ordering the ports on the side of the system based on size. Not overly useful over another port layout, but shows attention to detail.

5. LEDs. Do you really need a power led, a hard drive led, a solid blue led for bluetooth and a charging led? Not really. The only useful one is the charging led, and the Powerbook puts that on the plug instead of on the system.

6. Slim form factor. The Powerbook is a decent machine, including the 17 inch version. But for some reason, Apple seems to be the only company capable of building a powerful 17 inch laptop that isn't overly thick. Also, the system is smooth all around. It just slides into a laptop bag, and doesn't have feet to catch on things, or miscellaneous doors and vents.


Those types of little things in the hardware are why I don't get held back by a one button mouse. The system makes up for it in many other ways. Software wise, it is the same way. When I sat down and thought about how I used my machines, it became very clear that every task could be accomplished just fine on the Powerbook except one. That one would be gaming. So I made the decision to seperate productivity from gaming, and now maintain the Wintendo for games. Being that it only serves one puropse, it actually does really well. And the Powerbook still lets me play World of Warcraft on the go if needed, without hauling around the new Dell Inspiron portable brick, err, 9100. And time wise? I spend more time doing things, and less time trying to figure out how to do things or how to fix something. It's also why I moved my grandparents to a Mac as well. They can now just get things done, like plugging in the camera and having photos be transferred off of it.