26 July 2006

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

He’s only spent a couple hours on my desk, and I’ll miss him (true that those things boot fast, and seeing it instantaneously open a .dmg or launch an application is a bit frustrating), but that’s nothing compared to what I’ll have to deal with on Monday.

I can’t believe they’re reserving three function keys — the same keys that should be allocated to that dear Exposé — to control keyboard backlight. Are those really the same designers who decline to integrate a memory card reader because that would confuse users?

Thank god you can set the system up so function keys will be accessible without pressing Fn, but I can’t quite understand why that’s not the default setting.

 

[+20min.] Oh, by the way: no noticeable whine (not that I would have heard it over my room’s fan blowing full-speed).