Not so sure.....
I love OS X, but at the same time, I don't think it really addresses some of the things (mostly related to file management) that long-time Windows users expect. The "Finder", frankly, kind of sucks when it comes to needing to rename/delete/copy/move large numbers of files and folders around.
For example, I often encounter strange little "glitches", like I hold down "open-apple" and click on multiple files to highlight them all. Then I try to hold down the mouse button and drag the selected group to the trash can or over to a new folder. Sometimes it works great. Other times, it immediately deselects all the items except the one I have the pointer immediately over. (Seems to be better behaved if I make sure I only point at the little icons to the left of the filenames, rather than pointing at some other part of the highlighted file; but still - this isn't intuitive/friendly at all.)
Along the same vein, there's just something ever so slightly "off" about the timing of some of these actions. It's hard to even explain, but when you use Windows, things just seem to happen at the correct pace when you click to select or double-click shortcuts, etc. In Mac OS X, I more often find myself accidently doing things like not quite waiting long enough after single-clicking a filename to rename it. Having Stuffit Expander as the "de-facto" standard for compressed Mac files only adds to the problems. Sometimes you try to, say, decompress a whole set of partial files back into a single .dmg. You double-click the first segment and Stuffit tries launching a program to merge all the pieces first and then uncompress the whole merged "chunk". That may fail, depending on the file creator/type info on some of the segments. But if you right-click on that same first segment, traversing the menus for Stuffit and "Expand" - it seems to work fine, uncompressing the set without trying to launch a tool to merge it first. What's with that??
Also, without going to the terminal and issuing Unix commands, there's really no easy way to rename a group of files all in one shot. (EG. I want to rename 50 files without extensions so they all have a .doc on the end.) Some sort of pop-up window for applying "batch" changes to groups of selected files would go a long way towards making it more powerful, IMHO.
Caudor said:
I believe this is Apple's attempt to get back in the ring for another swing at Microsoft. Apple has the world's best OS and they know it. Microsoft reputation is at an all-time low. Longhorn is still way off and even average users tire of security issues. By gaining Intel (and possibly others like HP) as an ally, this represent the opening salvo of a new OS WAR!
It is also possible that Apple and Intel are joining forces to woo Hollywood with some grand plan.
If Apple ever plans to stand up to MS, this is a great time to do it.
