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What Do You Hate The Most About Your Mac?

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Now that my complete and total infatuation with my Mac has worn off and shifted into delight and love, I’m starting to explore the weaknesses of the Mac for not other reason than I’m trying to figure out where the real rough edges are.

So – if you are a Mac user, I’m very interested in the things you don’t like about the Mac, especially the things you hate.  I offered up the Address Book as a burnt offering the other day.  Anything else out there that blows?

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August 13th, 2010     Categories: Tech I Use     Tags:
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  • paperpushermj

    What I hate most about the Mac is the people who hate the Mac.

  • http://graduatetutor.com/ senith @ mba tutor

    I work mostly with MBA students who use Microsoft office. covert ion of documents is my Mac pain.

  • Jonathan

    As a person who likes to use the keyboard more than the mouse, I lament the fact that the keyboard shortcuts need to be memorized, unlike on Windows where the shortcut key is underlined when the Alt key is pressed. (Eg, Alt, F, O to open a file). Also, not all the commands have a shortcut.

    Another gripe is there seems to be no way to go to the top, bottom, or page up and down in Mail, unless I have missed the obvious.

  • http://twitter.com/BillDA @BillDA

    I actually really miss a physical right click button. I know you can option click, but it's just not the same when I have to use two hands just to get a context menu. Supposedly OSX is designed to never need right clicks, but I still think there are some things that are far easier to accomplish with a context menu. This issue has gotten a little better with the new "button-less" trackpads, but still kind of annoying to me.

  • Jim

    The thing I hate about Macs are the fanboys- the people who take any opportunity to bash PC's, usually out of ignorance. Many are arrogant and annoying. Despite what Steve Jobs says, there is nothing "magical" about any computer. They are tools composed of hardware and software, susceptible to failure irrespective of the platform.

  • AnnaD.

    No visible on desktop folders where you can collect material.One has to go in finder to find desktop,folders etc.And MS -specially excel is not the best to work with.

    • http://www.techsurvivors.net kris

      All you have to do is create a folder on the desktop and drop or save whatever you want in it. Right click if you have a multi-button mouse or control/click to get the contextual menu. Or Shift/Command/N will give you one.

  • Denise

    I can't stand that it has a really poor way of searching. On a PC I can easily find any minute topic in a file or the file itself, without going to a specific folder or whatever. It misses stuff and makes it very difficult to find on the finder. Even when I designate for the name, it still may not find it and I have to search around. It doesn't seem to search everything on the whole mac and certainly does not find items within files very easily. It is very frustrating.

    • http://www.techsurvivors.net kris

      Are you using Spotlight in Tiger or Leopard? The former did have problems but Leopard search is much improved. Have you allowed it to index the hard drive? You should have no trouble finding even one word items, though you'd end up with thousands of hits. You will only get what you are allowed to see per your administration privileges.

      Here's info on how to conduct a good search: http://db.tidbits.com/article/9283

  • glenn

    I hate Finder. Total POS. Seriously, a vertical drill down through nested folders is a nightmare, constantly resizing columns. Copy a folder to a directly that already has that folder, does a complete delete of the old folder then copy, oops. Why can't it merge two folders and alert me on duplicates?

    Another finder POS, no folder security, password protected folders? nope, can't do it unless you make that folder a DMG file.

  • Silenced crumpet

    Just a few annoyances that really add up.

    1. The single menu bar:
    I'm baffled that anyone can find this a usable element on a screen bigger than 12". People like to cite Fitt's law but I find it much more effort getting my cursor all the way up there than aiming at a menu bar that's actually attached to the window I'm working in.
    Very frequently my focus is on a window that isn't actually selected so I am confused when I start clicking in the menu bar and can't find what I'm looking for. This never happens when the menu bar is actually attached to its associated window.
    This menu bar is forever diverting my attention from the task at hand.

    2. The dock: Part of the reason I prefer the Windows task bar is that I'm used to it. What I think is an actual flaw of the dock is that everything appears as an icon instead of text, so it takes a while to find the program I'm looking for. At work I observe other people having this problem as they slowly mouse over each icon and wait for the tool tip to appear.

    3. The mouse: I don't like needing to use two hands to right-click, so I replaced the mouse. The problem is every time I come back to the computer after it has been asleep the mouse is frozen and i have to unplug and replug it. I have been periodically searching to see if any solution has been found but no progress seems to have been made.

    • http://www.techsurvivors.net kris

      Much of your difficulty is because you haven't spent enough time to familiarize yourself with the icons in the dock. Soon you will recognize them by sight and not need to hover over them.

      Some USB mice from third parties may need a "wakeup" or unplug/replug. It could also be a problem with the cable connection, try a different port first.

  • http://rom@ContactPageMarketingMachine.com Tom Mack

    Marketing to Businesses?

    Emails get ignored

  • http://www.offensivefun.com OffensiveFun

    It's awesome, nothing to hate!

  • Steve D.

    I really miss the page-up, page-down, home, end, insert and delete keys! I don't like using multiple fingers to achieve the same results.

  • http://twitter.com/437341 @437341

    I dont understand why anyone would choose Mac over Windows. Macs are more expensive and cannot be 'assembled' using parts you source from the market setting your own price. All you are doing by purchasing Mac is making one company richer. Buy Intel or AMD for processor, Seagate or WD for hard disk, and shop Crucial or Tigerdirect for memory and run Windows, knowing your money went in four directions not one. And Macs are not any more secure than Windows. They are just a lower defined target.

    • http://twitter.com/dorkitude dorkitude

      Here are a couple of reasons some people might choose Mac over Windows:

      1 – Because Mac has a vastly superior operating system to Windows
      2 – Because Mac has exclusive software (Textmate, Logic, and X Code), and many Mac clients are better than their Windows counterparts (Evernote, µTorrent)
      3 – Because the purchasing process you’ve just described, while clearly fun for you, is not how everyone wishes to invest their time — time is money, after all. My Macs save me time every single day, thanks largely to the It Just Works principle.

  • 2tk

    I have an energy saver power strip that my IMAC pulgs into as Master and all the peripherals plug into slave outlets. When i put IMAC to sleep it wakes up as soon as saver strip kills power to my speakers and any drives connected

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