This morning I had a little setback that reminded me of a great program for the PC. On my Mac at work, I deleted a file I thought I didn’t need any more, and it turns out I did need it. I lost all the work I did yesterday. If I were working on a PC, I could use PC File Recovery, a free program, to recover the file. I’ve used it on my home computer many times and have had a lot of success in recovering deleted stuff. Normally, I skip the “recycle bin”, since I usually don’t delete something unless I know I don’t want/need it any more.
Now, if I could find a Mac equivalent….
I got a new Mac laptop a month or so ago, and I love it. It’s awesome. I have no complaints, except the one that you’ve mentioned. They don’t label the important stuff. I had to reinstall the OS after deleting some file that I thought was pointless. Ugh.
I’m no fan of macs. I have mine set up at work to work as much like a PC as possible. I have a two button mouse, I use Firefox, etc. There’s some things I can’t do on a mac, or software that’s free on the PC isn’t available on the mac and the software that doest the same thing on the mac costs money.
I like that it sits on Free BSD, I can log into my Linux machine very easily with SSH. Other than that, I’d take a PC over a Mac every time I’m given a choice.