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The green button has inconsistent behavior by application - firefox maximizes to whole screen, safari sizes to the window, iTunes goes back and forth from mini-Player No cut and paste between windows - But I use the command line for most things, so it's not that big of a deal
One thing I miss from Windows-- the ability to easily access any menu item from the keyboard (not just items that have a defined keyboard shortcut). Yes, it can be done, but not "out of the box" using individual keystrokes to navigate each level of the hierarchy.
I can't think of any common annoyances. I come from the Linux desktop world, so having a GUI that works right is great. It was hard to get used to the close in the top left and drag in the bottom right only at first but I don't even notice that anymore. Under the hood it is Unix, includes Python and wxPython by default, Xcode is free and an awesome development environment so I can do as much and more than I can with…
Ditto, but I can't recommend Fusion enough. Tried Parallels, and had too many problems.
One thing I miss from Windows-- the ability to easily access any menu item from the keyboard (not just items that have a defined keyboard shortcut). Yes, it can be done, but not "out of the box" using individual keystrokes to navigate each level of the hierarchy.
I had tons of hardware problems. It’s just that I could be an outlier, these kinds of stories are always so freaking anecdotal and not really a help when deciding what to buy. My screen failed and was exchanged. Then my main board failed and was exchanged. Now everything seems to be working fine. Oh, yeah. I nearly forgot, my DVD drive was unable to burn anything so it was exchanged. The exchanged drive was also unab…
1) Hard drive had IO errors and was replaced (2 months)
2) One of my keys stopped working. (9 months)
3) The right fan died. (10 months)
The last company I worked at had a small fleet of MPB's and hardware problems were a regular occurrence. Far more frequent than when I was at an IBM/thinkpad shop, but drastically less than when I worked with Dells.
Jeremy
I had tons of hardware problems. It’s just that I could be an outlier, these kinds of stories are always so freaking anecdotal and not really a help when deciding what to buy. My screen failed and was exchanged. Then my main board failed and was exchanged. Now everything seems to be working fine. Oh, yeah. I nearly forgot, my DVD drive was unable to burn anything so it was exchanged. The exchanged drive was also unab…
Definitely an outlier. They have long been more reliable than average and have often topped reliably rankings throughout the past 10 years. :-/
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/0413212
Resetting the power management memory seems to fix it, but this amounts to rebooting. C'mon! It's just like I'm back on Windows 95!
One thing I miss from Windows-- the ability to easily access any menu item from the keyboard (not just items that have a defined keyboard shortcut). Yes, it can be done, but not "out of the box" using individual keystrokes to navigate each level of the hierarchy.