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Things you HATE about Macs...

So what do you think about Macs/Apple OS?

  • They are superb and could not be better

    Votes: 305 22.9%

  • They're good but have a few niggles

    Votes: 879 65.9%

  • For everything I like there's something I don't like

    Votes: 106 8.0%

  • I prefer Microsoft PCs

    Votes: 43 3.2%
  • Total voters
    1,333
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slug420 said:
I want to listen to a song performed live by an artist. I search for the song title and get 40 results. In windows I would look at the "path" column that shows me the path to that file so I can tell which live performance each instance is from. I finder I find myself just staring at search results at is basically the song name repeated 40 times with a different number in front of it (indicating track #). How do I address this the mac way. Clicking through each one to see the path when it shows up at the bottom of my finder window is clearly less efficient and a workaround...I am trying to see osx shine here.
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Can you import the music into iTunes and search by artist and album? Search for the artist by Cover Flow in iTunes, based on the various album covers for all those versions?

Or, if the songs have meta-data in them that Spotlight understands, you can search more specifically than just the song name, which is apparently inadequate for your search. Can you refine your search further?

slug420 said:
... I want to consolidate all of my pictures from my digital camera into two locations, one for daily use, and the other on a separate physical disk for safe keeping. So i do a search for dsc and find maybe 100,000 pictures.
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This is a challenge -- because here the lack of directory listing is more painful -- a feature I agree that OS X should add (along with the ability to copy/paste current directory). But, can you import all the photos into iPhoto or Aperture or Lightroom (or Picasa, coming soon) and have it remove duplicates?
 
Below the coverflow section, and above the contents section (between both), there is a pair of horizontal lines, you grab them and rearrange the ratio until you get the desired result.
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Yes. But the problem with that is that you have to perform this manual resizing each and every time you open a new Finder window. The ratio needs to be able to be set as a default.

What also annoys me is that in file dialogues, and sometimes the main Finder, the sidebar is quite thin and cuts off most of the text labels.

The Finder needs more consistency and more abilities to customize the defaults. It would also be nice if it would memorise how you viewed an individual folder the last time instead of having to manually go to the view options to set the defaults for that particular folder.
 
one very minor hardware "thing" that I dislike...

So far, there is only one, very minor thing that I ... dislike... about my MBP - the click pad, below the touchpad, the corners on it where it meets the touchpad, well, they are very sharp 90 degree corners. Because those 2 little corners stick up ever-so-slightly if I drag my thumb or fingers over them, it just annoys me. It could be so easily smoothed or rounded just a very little bit.

Really.
I LOVE my Mac.
 
when you click and drag the scrowl bar, if you miss it and click the window instead... the whole app window moves... that is annoying!
 
Lord Sam said:
I've never done that in my life. What a low class problem.
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I love the arrogance on this board.

I think what a lot of you don't understand or realize is that: WE ARE NOT CLAIMING THAT OS X SUCKS, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER. It's absolutely ASTONISHING on the arrogance on this board. Are you folks claiming that there is NOTHING on other OS platforms that wouldn't benefit OS X?

I remember when Tiger had come out one switcher had mentioned that one thing he (or she) had missed from Windows XP was being able to see thumbnails of gif/jpgs within explorer. The Mac Extreme Fanboys/girls came out and railed on this person saying that it wasn't necessary, blah blah blah.

Guess what, in Leopard they added that feature. Are you fanboys so blind in thinking that this shouldn't have been in there in the beginning? Or do you think that Apple invented this as well?

Here's what I want:
1. Cut and paste (NOT COPY AND PASTE, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS IN THERE ALREADY) files from one location to another.
2. Make the green button CONSISTENT. I really don't care what the green button does as long as it is consistent.

w00master
 
OSX has its share of cryptic error messages. Using my Mac Pro to copy a 20 gig cable rip from an hfs drive to a fat32 drive I get some obscure error code and a drive failure message. I swapped cables and worried the drive failed, then I remember fat32 can't handle such large files. I thought cryptic error messages were a Windows thing?

^^ I like the thumbnail views too. Another thing leopard ripped off from vista is showing the album art for mp3s as the thumbnail. I like that in both places.
 
let me weigh in on the green button/maximize issue. I don't like the OSX behavior not because it isn't like Windows but because you can't make the app take the whole desktop -- so you can concentrate 100% on your task and not get distracted by background graphics or desktop icons.

That's something that has always annoyed me about all versions of OSX, the Swiss cheese app windows. Use media cleaner or final cut as an example. You never get the whole screen real estate used instead the best you can hope for is a patchwork of individual windows arranged to mimmick it. This will always annoy me.
 
janstett said:
OSX has its share of cryptic error messages. Using my Mac Pro to copy a 20 gig cable rip from an hfs drive to a fat32 drive I get some obscure error code and a drive failure message. I swapped cables and worried the drive failed, then I remember fat32 can't handle such large files. I thought cryptic error messages were a Windows thing?
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That's true- I just ran into this the other day. I think I tried to copy the file three times before i remembered.
 
w00master said:
...2. Make the green button CONSISTENT. I really don't care what the green button does as long as it is consistent...
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the thing about the zoom button is its up to the developers to code it so the window maximises the appropriate size to make all the content visible.

but some devs (even Apple) either forget to or left it out so it goes back to the default behaviour of maximising to the size of the whole screen. this is evident in some of Apple's apps like Mail, TextEdit, iPhoto, iCal.

OmniWeb has sat on the fence making the zoom button maximise to the appropriate size and then maxmise to the size of the whole screen when its option clicked (or vice versa... cant remember :eek:)
 
joefinan said:
- When you shut down a notebook, you can't close the lid or it will go to sleep mid shut down.
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Just to point out, that until I figured out how to shut it down the default behavior of every windows notebook I did does this as well.


But, my fun ones:

No MacBook 12" Duo.

I understand the secrecy for new products, but I'd like some roadmaps as to when something like Aperture is coming out, or a place where real photographers could discuss features with Apple. It's a cool product, but when you have 10,000+ raw files and it bogs down on a Mac Pro 2.66DC with 4GB of memory and nothing else running for minutes at a time randomly I'd really like someone I could discuss options with. Instead of hoping someone at O'Reilly might try it, or something.

I'd like an iMac Tower just to shut up OSNews.com every six months they start their whine fest of no tower mac bastard child PC like thing that they can screw up. I'm sure once it's out they'll find a new reason to whine, probably doesn't have support for some stupid card or something.

on the above vein ship a 3G iPhone to shut up the whiners on that too. Speaking as someone who has no 3G available, with years on the horizon before it gets here, I really don't want it and don't care if I don't have it for the times I visit an area that does.

Send random wads of money to apple developers so they'll make new things. While eve-online being ported with Cider was great, it's buggy as hell and crashes my Mac Pro hard many times.

Honestly though, compared to the complaints I used to have when I ran windows, I don't have major ones. Most of em would be more in the 'whine' category.
 
cdcastillo said:
Command-delete (or command-bksp) will do the trick ;)
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Out of curiosity, is there a way to map new macros or shortcuts or anything in osx? AFAIK the delete button doesnt do anything at all if pressed while you are in this preview mode...no reason to use command-delete if delete isnt already occupied by a function right?
 
I wish I didn't have to eject my flash drives or other external peripherals when I want to unplug them...
 
lamina said:
I wish I didn't have to eject my flash drives or other external peripherals when I want to unplug them...
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Ya that's annoying on all OS's! That's why i used love floppys. They were so convenient!

I can understand "don't remove while the light is flashing" but once it's finished then you should just be able to pull it out.
 
DaveF said:
Can you import the music into iTunes and search by artist and album? Search for the artist by Cover Flow in iTunes, based on the various album covers for all those versions?

Or, if the songs have meta-data in them that Spotlight understands, you can search more specifically than just the song name, which is apparently inadequate for your search. Can you refine your search further?

This is a challenge -- because here the lack of directory listing is more painful -- a feature I agree that OS X should add (along with the ability to copy/paste current directory). But, can you import all the photos into iPhoto or Aperture or Lightroom (or Picasa, coming soon) and have it remove duplicates?
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I want to thank you for the time you took in posting these solutions. These suggestions are possibilities...for a couple reasons I have not wanted to take these paths (dont really want my entire mp3 library in itunes and I have found that managing files on disk from within iphoto is cumbersome). The things I want to accomplish ARE possible in osx. My point was merely that by adding such trivial functionality that is standard in windows (and itunes actually) and has been for quite some time now, they would be improving the OS. And also that despite some of the arrogant fanboy comments about how "osx is better and windows sucks and if i want to do something that isnt easy in osx then im an idiot"....these trivial features actually do serve a purpose...
 
I actually prefer the way that Mac OS X "maximizes" windows -- it's a lot more efficient.

And, just for some background information, I've been a Windows user for the past 15 years, from Windows 3.1 right up to Windows Vista SP1. Just recently switched last month to Mac OS X 10.5 and I prefer a lot of the functions in the Mac OS compared to in Windows.
 
Mal said:
Sleep mode is a bit buggy, and can cause problems if you're carrying around a laptop in a bag while it's sleeping (I do, but that's because I'm lazy). Thus, it's best to shut down the laptop instead of sleeping it. Obviously not an issue for desktops, but then they don't have lids to close anyways so it doesn't apply.

jW
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What are you talking about? The stability of a Mac in sleep mode is now the reason I own three macs. The only problem with the sleep mode is that it is so stable that sometimes I go for months without booting my computer. (Consequently, some of my updates that are triggered by the boot sequence don't get installed for a while. But hey, I'm not complaining.)
 
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