I’ve had a Macbook Pro for a while and I have been using Apple’s new OS since the first day it was released, and though it is full of hundreds of new features and some very useful little tweaks, I’ve started to find some annoyances as well.
On the whole there are some very simple things you just can’t do on a Mac [easily] like cut a file and paste in a folder (you have to drag the file into the folder, or copy then delete the original) – this is something you can quickly get used to. However there are some that just don’t make any sense like not being able to play a video in fullscreen or work in an app in full screen on one monitor whilst being allowed to work on a second monitor.
I was quite excited when Apple announced the availability of full screen apps for Lion, because not only do you end up with more screen real estate (Terminal is awesome in full screen) to work in but it means that you can get the same distraction free work environment, that previously you may have had to pay for, with all your current [supported] apps.
I’ve also been using multi-monitor setups for quite some time now, and on my previous machines (that were Windows based) I have found this to be a very efficient enviroment for me.
However, for some reason when you have multiple monitors connected to your Mac, running OS X 10.7 (I’m running 10.7.1), and you switch to full screen mode whilst watching a video or whilst having a pages document open, or using a web browser then you will be greeted with a hideous grey background and loss of functionality on your secondary display. What gives!?
This is apparently a widely know issue and I’m sure it has been reported to apple, I have personally submitted the feedback to Apple.
Hopefully this will be resolved soon, and I will update here when it, until then I must try and work the way that Apple wants me to!
Thus endeth the rant.
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