Woodturner mentioned on the thread: “Another Potential Sawstop Competitor” a couple of people he knows who turned the safety feature off because of cost of replacing blades and brakes.
That made my mind run to “features” in other things we don’t use or never get into the habit of doing. There are features that get in the way of normal performance or just plain inconvenient. (My wife’s Rav 4’s cruise control - if one back clicks the speed from 70 to 60 in speed limit areas, the second it hits 60, it hits the brakes until it gets to 60. I hate that “feature”.) There are features on my computer that I have never been able to use, and most certainly, there are features on my iPhone that I have never used.
In the early days I drank too much of Steve Jobs’ cool aid and took to intuitive computing like “white on snow” (to change an idiom). Up until SJ changed the OS to Unix (and I basically liked the Unix system and was on a Unix forum in Tokyo for a while back in the late ’80s.). But since moving to the Unix system, most app developers stopped the strict intuitive approach and started with the what I call the list mode with some intuitive motions built in: Do A then B, press key combo Shift C or command x etc - I hate key combos because they still change from time to time or with different language changes). The latest two OSs for the Mac took the “trash can” totally away from the desk top. Old people (who started wth the Mac back in the 80’s) have difficulties wth this. Now: Drag trash to the pop-out dock and down at the bottom or off to the far right (and it moves around) and it is a hit or miss proposition. Or learn the key commands. (Are you kidding me???) That is why we went to the Mac in the first place, we didn’t like having to memorize key commands (or type them in) We wanted to “just do it.” Oh, I miss intuitive! (And it was as powerful as key commands).
There was an app (available in the US but developed primarily in Japan) that was the best layout app I have ever used. It was a word processor app that allowed vertical and horizontal text, double byte code, right to left and left to right. It had the best search and replace engine that I have ever used - paragraph returns, spaces or double spaces or triple spaces, capitalize or not capitalized ad ability to change any and all with a click. Now, 30 years later, NOTHNG comes close.
Features are just too complicated in electronics and tools. Way too many commands to remember. Way too many parts to figure out. Alexa and Siri are steps in the right direction for things they can control.
BUT, back to the Sawstop, it is inconvenient in its purpose to the point of doing as WoodTurner mentioned, its $ cost on replacement parts discourages its use, not even counting the time cost to replace - when you only have an hour to work on something. I like the proximity promise as it will not destroy or require time consuming replacement.
Rant Off,- (hiding behind old age creeping in!)
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That made my mind run to “features” in other things we don’t use or never get into the habit of doing. There are features that get in the way of normal performance or just plain inconvenient. (My wife’s Rav 4’s cruise control - if one back clicks the speed from 70 to 60 in speed limit areas, the second it hits 60, it hits the brakes until it gets to 60. I hate that “feature”.) There are features on my computer that I have never been able to use, and most certainly, there are features on my iPhone that I have never used.
In the early days I drank too much of Steve Jobs’ cool aid and took to intuitive computing like “white on snow” (to change an idiom). Up until SJ changed the OS to Unix (and I basically liked the Unix system and was on a Unix forum in Tokyo for a while back in the late ’80s.). But since moving to the Unix system, most app developers stopped the strict intuitive approach and started with the what I call the list mode with some intuitive motions built in: Do A then B, press key combo Shift C or command x etc - I hate key combos because they still change from time to time or with different language changes). The latest two OSs for the Mac took the “trash can” totally away from the desk top. Old people (who started wth the Mac back in the 80’s) have difficulties wth this. Now: Drag trash to the pop-out dock and down at the bottom or off to the far right (and it moves around) and it is a hit or miss proposition. Or learn the key commands. (Are you kidding me???) That is why we went to the Mac in the first place, we didn’t like having to memorize key commands (or type them in) We wanted to “just do it.” Oh, I miss intuitive! (And it was as powerful as key commands).
There was an app (available in the US but developed primarily in Japan) that was the best layout app I have ever used. It was a word processor app that allowed vertical and horizontal text, double byte code, right to left and left to right. It had the best search and replace engine that I have ever used - paragraph returns, spaces or double spaces or triple spaces, capitalize or not capitalized ad ability to change any and all with a click. Now, 30 years later, NOTHNG comes close.
Features are just too complicated in electronics and tools. Way too many commands to remember. Way too many parts to figure out. Alexa and Siri are steps in the right direction for things they can control.
BUT, back to the Sawstop, it is inconvenient in its purpose to the point of doing as WoodTurner mentioned, its $ cost on replacement parts discourages its use, not even counting the time cost to replace - when you only have an hour to work on something. I like the proximity promise as it will not destroy or require time consuming replacement.
Rant Off,- (hiding behind old age creeping in!)
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