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Friday, October 21, 2011
 
Marianna Dizik was going to Florida for 1 week long JSM (Joint Statistical Meeting) where she was a session chair.
Marianna Dizik was going to Florida for 1 week long JSM (Joint Statistical Meeting) where she was a session chair. Her employer confiscated her previous IBM laptop with Windows, which was built like a tank, and gave her a choice of Apple MacBook or Linux. Since she was using Linux since 1993 (4 years before she ever saw Windows for the first time) she chose MacBook to check for herself this "best hardware and the most intuitive software ever made".

Big mistake. Software stinks, and stupid Apple hardware kept breaking and breaking, eventually rendering both keyboard and the trackpad inoperable. It happened 3 weeks before her trip, which her whole IT department spent trying to either fix it. That failed. They ordered 2 new laptops. Both came broken. So she had to use USB keyboard (in her left hand) and a USB mouse (in her mouth). That's how she was working on the road (airports, airplanes, etc...) and the whole week at the conference.

Unlike normal non-Apple laptops, which come covered with USB ports all over, Apple has only 2 USB ports (can't mar the beautiful design), which are now taken by the keyboard and mouse. Both are on the left-hand side, so the USB cables are always tangled, get in a way and prevent the mouse from moving. If you think that's because Mac is made for left-handed people, think again. She is left-handed.

In order to login with a USB dongle, she now has to unplug mouse, plug the dongle, wait for login, unplug the dongle, replug the mouse, click OK.

Thank you Apple за наше счастливое детство!

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