I’m the proud owner of a new MacBook Air. It’s beautiful, I love it, people stare at it on the airplane, etc., etc. For the owner of a tech company, I’ve never been much of an early adopter, unlike some of our clients (and you know who are)… having said that, when it became necessary for me to get a new one, well heck, why not go for the Air? I am certainly a frequent traveler, and the few pounds I’m saving with the Air are no doubt going to pay off in the long run.
Anyway, as part of the exciting getting-acquainted process with my new computer, I’m determined to put in the time to make this thing as lean and mean as I can make it, with only the apps that I actually use, and only the features that I care about. In that regard, Mac’s automatic multilanguage support has been immensely annoying to me.
For example. I have known some great Portuguese people, and I’d love to visit Lisbon, but I certainly don’t need support on my computer for two dialects of Portuguese. What’s that you say— maybe I’ll make a couple of Portuguese friends from different regions of Portugal? OK, fine. But I doubt they’ll need to use my version of Stickies (which has support for 18 languages!).
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