So many nice features with the machine itself – I run a 17″ macbook pro thats 3 months old now (The second unibody model from mid 2009) and it is without a doubt an amazing machine. (I have become used to the lack of keys now, but still sometimes wish for more, but not a big deal.)

But the Apple OS is driving me nuts. In particular the minimise feature – or specifically the lack of a simple way to manage open windows.

For work I require multiple applications running with perhaps 10 pages open at any one time. With my Mac you cant easily organise or see these pages and so one ends up up loosing pages and then spending a considerable amount of time hunting for the page one wants.

With Microsoft every window you open, from an application page to a web browser page, all are shown in the Tool Bar. When a page is minimised one can see it there immediately in front of you. It is so easy to see and select the pages one wants, if they are minimised or open it doesn’t matter you can see them all. Its simple, easy and logical.

It seems that Apple know their system doesn’t work as well and so have tried to improve it with Expose, but in the end Expose complicates things even more..

Apple have tried to re-invent the wheel and have made an OS that despite having some nice features, is sadly overshadowed by overcomplication. They have tried too hard and lost ease of use and simplicity as a result.

I write this as constructive criticism to Apple as well as to vent my frustration. I love the machine, but wish the OS was a more logical system to use – specifically the way to manage pages.

Ah,the good times.

Cheers,
AVP

I am ready to pack it up and take it back. That was a freaking lot of money to not get a computer that would handle my pretty basic needs.

All I need is email, internet, and basic graphic editing. And this piece of junk can’t do it without crashing or locking up. And on top of that things I could do one handed on my PC takes two hands because a darn right click just isn’t possible – nooooo, we have to have key combinations.

I hate this thing.

An app should just open up and fill teh desktop. Period.

OSX sucks with dual monitors. The menu bar stays on one screen.

I’ve gotten the spinning wheel of death so many times it’s not funny. You can’t even kill it. At least in XP, if something goes wrong I can kill it with task manager. XP is smart enough to know something is wrong. OSX just spins and spins and spins.

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There are a number of areas I find in which the Mac impedes efficiency:

• Being able to stretch a window from more than just the bottom right corner.

• Right/Control clicking in a folder or desktop and having a list of options (such as create new text document, unzip, etc, etc)

• Cascading “Start Menu”, frankly, I use WAYYY more apps than OSX’s feeble “dock” can intelligently support. Apple knows this, as screen shots of the new Leopard or what not seem to reveal a cascade menu system addition to the dock. So I guess I just need to wait for the next version to remedy this issue.

• Show Desktop/Minimize All (in other words, move the windows out of the way, and keep them that way). Yes, I know there is the whole expose. But I find it sadly annoying. It’s nice to rapidly clear my screen and see my desktop. But it’s annoying because it allows me only one action. So as soon as I click or do something everything swoops back in. Well, my main use for “show desktop” is usually to utilize two apps/folders/files/etc. Expose does not facilitate this. It’s an all or nothing.

• Clicking app instance in taskbar/dock bar to open window, re-clicking minimizes window. This is one of the most useful features in Windows. I really wish Mac utilized a similar behavior.

• Highlighting and dragging, very useful. BOY DO I MISS THIS FEATURE. Highlight text and drag to new location. Talk about an efficient time saver. Pretty non-existent on Mac.

• File Explorer URL, so as to be able to easily copy/paste/send a location of a file. Yeah, can I please see the path to where I am in the file explorer. I love being able to grab the path, paste it elsewhere and be at the folder.

• Up folder button in the file explorer. THIS IS THE #1 ANNOYING THING ABOUT OSX TO ME. It drives me crazy. Look, I know the file I want is one folder up. Can you please let me simply go there. And yes there is the side slide panelling view. Sadly, it doesn’t let me adjust the window. It’d be great if the right most panel could be adjusted in size so I could READ my file names thank you.

I also agree, I prefer maximized applications. It is so annoying accidentally clicking between two panels and finding myself in a completely different application.

Also, I find Apple’s implementation of Home/End, Cntrl-Left/Right, hightlight to be less effective. And very inconsistent from application to application.

That said, there is a lot to like in OSX as well. I find it a much more responsive and communicative OS. I’ve found programs to hang or crash just as much as on XP. However, the OS seems less inclined to take a hit. Though I’ve had some major hangs after OSX updates.