Comments on: 65 Reasons Mac Sucks

By: Francisco

Francisco — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:31:16 +0000

I have a Macbook and tend to agree with most of your points. Now I’ve just tried to uncompress a rar archive and tried to drag and drop to a long path and had no success (neither just copying it since OSX doesn’t provide a graphical cut action). In the end I had to use command-line *nix good and old “mv” command. However, if I would like working with command-line I would install Linux (which some graphical interfaces are even better than OSX’s one).

Finder is a VERY outdated app in relation to Windows Explorer. The only and useful feature I see in Finder is the ability to resize thumbnails with gestures (however, the newest Synaptics touchpad driver for PC now supports gestures).

It’s also annoying that it’s impossible to manage windows in a way that Windows can do: Alt+Tab switches between windows and not between apps. Windows 7 offers both the Mac approach and Windows’ approach. In short, OSX to me doesn’t have too much for offering without gestures or *nix utilities. *nix utils I can get with Linux (most distros actually have more utilities such as sshfs in most distros). Synaptics now offers useful support to gestures on Windows. Also, there is an annoying “feature” regarding mouse/trackpad functioning: when I drag a window, mouse pointer “glues” to the titlebar requiring another click/touch to releasing the window. Under Windows, I can configure this behaviour; In Macs, I just have the option to set an “unstick” time.

Useful Mac apps usually aren’t free. I have used EditPlus for Windows for a long time (the free version shows a popup on application opening) and now I’ve just bought it because when I’ve got my Mac I couldn’t find any app so useful. I’ve bought also Crossover Mac (paid Wine, preinstalled in most Linux distros) so I can run utilities such as Editplus or 7zip for free under my Mac.

Macs make an office’s appearance stylish and well succeeded, but in terms of utility, I tend to prefer Windows or Linux. To say something good about Macs, they’re very friendly to image editing, raw file support and manage monitor’s color calibration (now Windows 7 improved this area). However, if you don’t want to pay for image editing software and use Gimp, you will have to run it over a X11 layer which makes windows’ behaviour not so consistent.

By: monty

monty — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:33:57 +0000

I think that you\’re a biased moron.

Mostly you\’re blaming Mac OS G.U.I. for being different to Windows.

That seems really stupid.

Windows is for retardeds. Keep with it.

By: ben ten

ben ten — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:19:33 +0000

i7 CPU
12 GB ram
ATI 5870 GPU
80 GB Intel SSD
1TB WD Caviar Black
55\" Pioneer Elite Plasma
Windows 7 Professional
Total cost – 4k

A Mac Pro tower workstation wih similar but not equal specs costs 4k just for the tower, not including the monitor and I still won\’t have the massive software library available to Windows or the flexibility to upgrade every part of the computer.

I run CS4 master suite, visual studio, blender, netbeans, etc. with no problems. Win 7 has been running 24/7 for 5 months with no crashes or hangs, except when I first installed my graphics card because the drivers were still in beta.

Games play solidly and smoothly and of course there are plenty of them.

Windows 7 is very intuitive and slick. Very responsive. Lots of nice features.

On the whole, I just can\’t justify a Mac purchase to myself and wouldn\’t recommend it to anyone else either. The price/performance and overall value is just not there. The platform is too locked down and there are just not enough software options available. Besides, Apple charges you double for the exact same or older internals as a decent Dell or HP. OS X itself is just a BSD (which is open source!) clone with more security holes and a poorer multitasker. I\’m no fan of Linux but I would rather use that, or even BSD itself, than OS X to get real work done. Those OS\’s are at least free and are definitely more stable and much more secure than OS X.

By: your retarded

your retarded — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:39:28 +0000

this guys a complete idiot

By: Winds

Winds — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:49:19 +0000

you forgot the fact that Macs cost an arm and a leg and your oldest child. A cheap Mac Pro cost $3k easy. You can get the same exact specs on a Dell for around 1200 dollars.

If your Mac breaks, have fun trying to fix it.

By: Hobg

Hobg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:31:06 +0000

And still no Blu-ray support too!

By: Alexey

Alexey — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:13:44 +0000

- You also can’t scroll within drop-down menus (have fun switching between fonts/modes in pretty much any creative program). In most cases it also won’t auto-fill the Font names you’re typing in.
- You can’t check the collective size of multiple files at once. If you try it opens the same amount of info boxes which you can’t close with a shortcut.
- Hardware gets old, you can’t replace anything yourself.
- Servicing is more expensive than buying new, better PC components.
- Fancy ass connection standards. (you need to use 10-20$ adapters to plug in your monitor onto your macbook).
- FUCKS UP YOUR USB DRIVE IF NOT REMOVED SAFELY, FFFFF

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:03:52 +0000

Some other things I forgot to mention…

You’re spot on regarding application switching, its still one of my biggest nuisances regarding OS X. I also agree about the right drag, I miss being able to specify copy or move via a right click drag…

I also never understood why you can’t Cmd + X / Cmd + C (cut and copy) files in finder… what the heck!

As far as a keyboard shortcut for renaming files, just press enter, it’ll allow you to rename the selected file.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:03:12 +0000

Some other things I forgot to mention…

You’re spot on regarding applicatoin switching, its still one of my biggest nusances regarding OS X. I also agree about the right drag, I miss being able to specify copy or move via a right click drag…

I also never understood why you can’t Cmd + X / Cmd + C (cut and copy) files in finder… what the heck!

As far as a keyboard shortcut for renaming files, just press enter, it’ll allow you to rename the selected file.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:20 +0000

So, I really should read the whole list as I just skimmed around. But to at least let you know, your issue with firefox is with the default theme.. change your theme and you’ll have icons for your bookmark toolbar. I highly recommend the Chromifox Basic theme…. just my 2p