I’ve waxed lyrical about my conversion to a Mac user but I still can’t believe how much more productive I am using it.
The more I get used to Mac OS X (that is the more I use the features I am not used to) the more this becomes obvious.
One fine example is the rdoc documentation that comes with (almost) every rubygem.
On Windows I knew where my gems where, would navigate there and pick the gem documentation I wanted to read – searching I would only use very rarely partially because it is (was?) painfully slow and partially because it was so “hard” to get to.
This is a boring and onerous procedure and it also means I know exactly what is installed and what it does.
It gets hard to follow after the 20th gem.
On the Mac…well I don’t really care where the rdocs are (can’t even tell you off the top of my head). It’s enough that Spotlight will find it for me at the press of two keys (Command-Space).
I seem to be using my Mac much like I use the internet: It’s faster to let the system look for it, than to go there directly, even if you know where it is.