{"id":93,"date":"2008-07-23T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/wow-macs-really-are-easier\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:56:28","slug":"wow-macs-really-are-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/wow-macs-really-are-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, Macs Really Are Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atul Varma learns to love his Mac<\/a><\/p>\n

…In a nutshell, though, I had always assumed that Macs were only marginally easier to use than PCs. I guess I\u2019ve found over the past two months that in some ways, this holds true\u2014the Mac is essentially an incredibly sexy-looking PC, with the same annoyances and a few polishes that make it a bit more humane to use. In other ways, however, the difference is truly like night and day.<\/p>\n

This is a story about such a situation.<\/a><\/p>\n

… I had to go through 8 wizards in all, so that\u2019s a grand total of twenty-four clicks required to unplug my keyboard and mouse from one side of my computer and plug them into the other side.<\/em> I\u2019m not actually installing brand-new hardware here.<\/p>\n

The first time I had to plug this keyboard and mouse into my Mac, I was floored. In the best-case scenario, I expected it to think for a second or two and then give me a reasonably unintrusive message informing me that I could use my USB mouse and keyboard. That would have been pretty humane.<\/p>\n

But it did one better.<\/p>\n

The Mac didn\u2019t tell me anything, because my mouse and keyboard just worked the moment I plugged them in. When you plug in a power cable or a pair of headphones into a computer, you don\u2019t get some kind of confirmation message from your operating system, because it\u2019s obviously supposed to just work\u2014why should plugging in a USB keyboard and mouse be any different?<\/p>\n

… I have to admit that when it all adds up, I find my Mac to be significantly easier to use than my PC.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atul Varma learns to love his Mac …In a nutshell, though, I had always assumed that Macs were only marginally easier to use than PCs. I guess I\u2019ve found over the past two months that in some ways, this holds true\u2014the Mac is essentially an incredibly sexy-looking PC, with the same annoyances and a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,3,8],"tags":[113,114],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-design","category-macosx","category-usability","tag-mac","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}