Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"
Submitted by Merlin on February 28, 2007 - 3:00am.
We’ve started a new feature over on MacBreak Weekly that I really hope becomes a regular thing: “_Mac Whines_!”
Yeah, sure, I’m an unapologetic Apple fanboy (I, mean duh), but some stuff about my Mac experience makes me crazy. Have you got a beef with your Mac or OS X you want to shout from the shiny counter of the “Genius” Bar? Yeah, me too.
I’ll open with:
- inexplicable iCal “snooze” options (per MBW 30 – which, incidentally, may also be my favorite MacBreak Weekly to date)
- near-hangs whenever a mounted network volume is no longer available
- no way to (temporarily) enable password-free user switching
- The Finder. The goddamned Finder.
What’s your Mac Whine?
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Others have talked about user...
Others have talked about user interface inconsistencies. My main whine here is the inconsistent use of Application|Quit and clicking on the red close window control. Some applications like iPhoto and iSync just quit when the red control is clicked.
From Apple’s Mac 101:
“To quit an application, choose Quit from its application menu (for example, choose Quit iTunes from the iTunes menu if you want to quit iTunes). Keep in mind that closing a window (by clicking the round, red button) will typically not quit the application. Either choose Quit from the application menu or use the keyboard shortcut: Press the Command key (the one with the Apple logo) and the Q key simultaneously (Command-Q).”