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Likes:
- small
- quiet (but not silent)
- cheap
- its unix
- spring loaded folders
- Spring loaded slot drive wants to embed DVDs into the wall behind me.
- Slow. The G4/1.25ghz is no speed demon, and neither is the 4200rpm seagate.
- Laughably weak 3d. With the 32mb radeon 9200, ET is painfully slow even on the lowest settings.
- Keyboard support is terrible. It is a huge pain to get it to work with IBM Model M Keyboards. Apple doesnt give you any method of remapping the <img src="http://bani.anime.net/AppleCommandKey.gif"></img> so you have to dig up third party utilities to do it. Come on Steve, if you are going to insist on BYODKM, at least try to make sure you work with them properly.
- VGA output is broken. The output levels top out at 530mV when VESA spec requires it to be 700mV. This means your whites are a dirty grey, and everything is washed out. Guess I finally found a use for the superbright mode of my NEC FE991SB.
- Finder leaves .DS_Store turds all over the filesystem. Not nice for SMB shares.
- Ridiculously bad default OSX mouse acceleration -- a bizarre logarithmic curve rather than a sane linear curve like the rest of the universe. Have to download third party drivers to fix this.
- OSX Finder blows. I want MacOS 9 Finder back, and many other people feel the same way too.
- No standard package manager (and no, fink doesnt count). Uninstalling all the files associated with an application can be time consuming and error prone. While some applications are self-contained bundles, others scatter shared libraries and config files all over the filesystem -- and there's no standardized way to remove them.
- The bundled browser Safari is way too limited. Camino is much better.
- Xcode is intolerably bad. It's crashy, slow, and has the worst interface ever.
- 10.3.8's /usr/bin/pico is broken (it wraps long lines when it shouldn't). how the hell do you break pico? egads.
- expose is cute, but virtual desktops are much better.
- Apple's dock is a POS, and there's no UI themes. KDE's panelbar and themes are infinitely better.
- What moron thought removing the trashbin from the desktop was a good idea? Apple even makes it impossible for end users to put it back even if they want to, unless they use a third party application. Hey apple, choice is a good thing, not a bad thing.
- Apple now favors eye candy over functionality, which I find hilarious as Apple users used to criticize microsoft over the exact same thing.
- "A two button mouse is too complicated for beginners, we'll replace it with 10,000 <img src="http://bani.anime.net/AppleCommandKey.g ... ift-okblat combos instead."
- OSX treats all users as beginners, and gives you little control over changing how things work. Computing with OSX is like a computer with training wheels that you can't remove. Come on apple, I'm not a beginner. Can I please have an option for a non-beginner desktop?
"Insanely great" - steve job's favorite catchphrase. Ok steve, I'll grant you the 'insane' part. You need to work more on the 'great' though.
I'll use this for compiling and testing, but no way no how is it going to replace my linux desktop.
is that osx has no standardized uninstaller (in fact, no uninstaller at all).
that's funny
