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At work I always upgrade day 1. Supporting Macs is part of my job and I'm always my own guinea pig. I have not encountered any huge problems. There's a short (but important) list of unsupported software. You know what 32-bit apps you have and can decide for yourself how important they are. I've...

That's something I've been struggling with. I love Xojo, but I can understand why people would prefer a free/open-source toolchain. Xojo is closed-source and proprietary (and somewhat expensive). But it's awesome. These days I do a lot of work in Python, and I haven't found a GUI framework I...

Yes! Xcode is requires a lot of memory, and honestly, everyone will benefit from an upgrade from 2GB at this point. I used the same model until I upgraded a few months ago. I highly recommend upgrading to 8GB. Don't bother going to 4; if you're going to do this, go all the way. You should...

I recently got the latest 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and I've run into a problem when I try to use HDMI. As soon as I plug in the cable, the entire system freezes completely. The mouse won't move, no keyboard inputs seem to do anything. While this is going on, the TV keeps going between a black...

Oh, no doubt OS X was a much-needed advancement on the whole. However, it was dog slow and not very refined until Panther, and parts of the UI were a mess (the Finder is still a bit of a mess, to be honest; there were many things the OS 9 Finder did better). I loved the consistency and...

I've been feeling crotchety since 10.o was first released about 15 years ago. Crotchetiness increased considerably with Lion, waned a little with Mavericks, and is back to new heights with Yosemite. I am at critical crotchety levels now. I fought the App Store as long as I could. I had...

I highly recommend VLC. It'll play nearly anything, and managing files is so much easier than syncing movies from iTunes. And it's free. Handbrake is great for what it does, but re-encoding is time-consuming and necessarily entails a loss in quality. Why bother when you can play your movies...

I can format drives as exFAT in OS X. Never had an issue. Running 10.8.4 right now. I've actually never done it in Windows. The only downside to exFAT I've encountered is that other devices don't support it. For example, my smart TV only handles FAT32.

I haven't noticed Safari hanging, but I have noticed generally poor performance in two ways: 1. Scrolling was very choppy at first. I attribute this to the translucent toolbar, because after I went into System Preferences > Accessibility and disabled some transparency effects, this problem went...

Definitely true about the thinness. It kind of bugs me, because there's no reason for iMacs or Minis to get thinner and thinner. Heck, I've had my MacBook Pro for 5 years and never once thought "damn Mac, you thick". On the other hand, I see new models with no replaceable RAM, no replaceable...

On the other hand, Apple brought their BTO RAM prices in line with sanity when they made this switch, perhaps because they knew people wouldn't tolerate their shenanigans anymore. Gotta agree with Satcomer, though. None of Apple's current offerings really appeal to me, partly because of the...

I play Go (AKA Baduk, Weiqi). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baduk_(game) I've traveled the world to study Go and compete in tournaments. I'm not world-class by any stretch, but I'm a decent amateur.

I keep it installed, but I have all my browsers set to only run plugins on demand. If I just click a link to a Java applet, it won't load. I still need Java for desktop apps, so I won't uninstall it, but on the web I can't remember the last time I used it.

I'll have to hold it before I judge. I feel like 7.9" might be a tad much. I've used the Nexus 7, and in comparison the iPad Mini looks a little wide. The screen is almost a full inch bigger. Not quite sure how the bezels compare.

Didn't think of that. Looks like I can't add options to a poll after creation, though. I just realized that Lion was the first version of the Mac OS since 7.5 that I skipped. And if I skip Mountain Lion it will be the first time ever that I've been two versions behind.

I'm still on Snow Leopard at home (Lion at work), and I'm not sure if I'll upgrade yet. It might sound silly, but honestly the thing holding me back most is the scroll bars. I don't care that they look bad, but the complete lack of scroll arrows is infuriating to me. I was hoping Apple would...

Bear in mind when partitioning that not all parts of the disk yield the same speeds. Iirc, the beginning of the disk is faster because the disk spins faster at the edges. Some performance-minded people will even "throw away" large parts of their disk, using only the first half or so, in order to...

If there's no scripting support, my advice would be to do keystroke simulation like I mentioned before. I checked the Rondo demo, and this seems to work: tell application "Rondo" open POSIX file "/Volumes/Rondo 3.1/Sample MIDI Files/Moonlight.mid" activate tell application "System Events" to...

Just some random Korean pop* song I have in my library: 사랑 둘이서.. by AB *To me, just about anything from the last 30 years falls under the very large umbrella of "pop". Some people take great offense to this. Maybe it's not 'pop'? I don't know, but I don't...

Hmm. I don't know enough about midi to say which players would support that, and I don't have Logic, so I can't check its scripting support. My GUESS would be that Logic would support similar phrases in AppleScript. "open <file>" is virtually universal. "document <x>" is virtually universal...