A second day with the MacBook Pro and OSX.
Spotlight is very good. Apple+space-bar, type, key down and enter. I’ve been using it all day not just to find documents but to launch applications. It is a good deal faster than mousing down to the dock. Spotlight is also updated very quickly. Install an app and you can find it via Spotlight within a few seconds. Windows Desktop search is slower, harder to get at with the keyboard and doesn’t have the application finding capabilities of Spotlight.
Terminal windows are so much better on OSX. It helps a lot that this is all BSD/NEXT based but even so it just works. Apple + the number of the terminal window focuses it. Copy and paste works well, good line lengths and wrapping. With built-in SSH it makes development on remote Linux boxes pretty slick.
Photoshop on the other hand is going to take some getting used to. I have to figure out how to quickly preview hundreds of RAW files (the built in previewer is too slow). Finder doesn’t show thumbnails of the files like Windows does (admitedly with an extra plugin.) If anyone knows of good way to browse through RAW files and send them to Photoshop then speak up please. Inside Photoshop my normal way of working in full-screen mode with no file menu doesn’t work as well on OSX. I just need to find out the keyboard shortcuts but right now it isn’t what I am used to. Installing Photoshop was quick and easy though, better than on Windows.
