How I ended up with Mac

Re:How I ended up with Mac by stephenhuey on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:24AM (#5329698)

Exactly. Ever since I got one of those lil' white Macbooks in 2006 I've been so happy to be able to simply search for files with Spotlight and find them instantly, something Windows had never given me the ability to do.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by kayoone on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @02:53AM (#5329949)

windows explorer has had that feature for years as well

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by stephenhuey on Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:19PM (#5339556)

Yes, I believe I was performing searches from the Start menu in Windows back in the 90s, but it was always horribly slow and still missed results. Ever since I got a Macbook in 2006 I've enjoyed instant results from Spotlight--I mean within 1 or sometimes 2 seconds, not 5 minutes!

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by meaty on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:00AM (#5330196)

Start, type, search results. Its had that since vista!

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by revscat on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @08:16AM (#5330979)

It's not nearly as fast, by at least an order of magnitude. Also, because there is no centralized location for apps to be stored (e.g. /Applications) it has a harder time succeeding as an app launcher.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by meaty on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:17AM (#5331524)

I can't tell the difference in speed between a 2007 Lenovo T61 and a 2010 MBP.

Works fine for apps. Windows 8 actually makes distinction between documents, apps and settings.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:41AM (#5330837)

It never worked well for me, but I kill my search indexer process a lot because it turns my fan on.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by meaty on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:17AM (#5331530)

Never had that problem!

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by vsync on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @04:43AM (#5330332)

And yet "locate" is banned by default.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by rsynnott on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @05:31AM (#5330473)

Because it's redundant. man mdfind

If you want, of course, you can turn on locate, but it seems strange to have two local indexing things.

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Re:How I ended up with Mac by Evbn on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:38PM (#5333734)

10 yeas on, I have never finished waiting for Spotlight to index my drive and serve a query.

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