Little things...
...please little minds, as is so often said.
But it's often also the little things that can annoy the hell out of you the most. Like the 'eject' key on my MacBook Pro. It's right next to the backspace key, and so very easy to hit with a misplaced finger. Every time it's pressed, the CD ejects from the front tray with some force, or at least it tries to. Normally, as the laptop is being used on a lap, the CD is poked into your stomach with some force, and a complaining whine from the eject motor.
So I got into the habit of automatically holding the laptop up in the air every time it happened, waiting for the CD or DVD to eject, pushing it back in again, and getting on with what I was doing.
That is, until I downloaded the latest version of OSX. Which, with absolutely no fanfare in the patch notes, altered the way the eject button works. Now you have to hold it down for half a second or so before the CD ejects.
That tiny little alteration has improved my laptop experience by about 10%. Nice one Apple, someone's been listening to my silent screams!
But it's often also the little things that can annoy the hell out of you the most. Like the 'eject' key on my MacBook Pro. It's right next to the backspace key, and so very easy to hit with a misplaced finger. Every time it's pressed, the CD ejects from the front tray with some force, or at least it tries to. Normally, as the laptop is being used on a lap, the CD is poked into your stomach with some force, and a complaining whine from the eject motor.
So I got into the habit of automatically holding the laptop up in the air every time it happened, waiting for the CD or DVD to eject, pushing it back in again, and getting on with what I was doing.
That is, until I downloaded the latest version of OSX. Which, with absolutely no fanfare in the patch notes, altered the way the eject button works. Now you have to hold it down for half a second or so before the CD ejects.
That tiny little alteration has improved my laptop experience by about 10%. Nice one Apple, someone's been listening to my silent screams!
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