http://blakeley.com/blogofile Performance, scalability, databases, and whatever comes up. Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:44:55 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/542 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:22:31 UTC http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/542 MacBook Air 2010 (13.3/1.8/4/256)
This marks my first attempt in about a decade to use OS X as a full-time environment. I've have a Mac of some sort since 1988, but for the past few years I rarely used the latest one (an iMac). I used it for a little audio work, and for the past year for iOS development. For productivity tasks it was usually easier to use my work laptop instead, which ran debian linux at Oracle and Kubuntu or Ubuntu linux at MarkLogic.

One reason for all this was keyboard accessibility. Apple clearly doesn't make this a priority. Even with Universal Access enabled, I'm constantly finding things that only work with the mouse or trackpad. ClipMenu and SizeUp help, but I'm always looking for more efficient ways to work.

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