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Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"

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?

Jeremiah Staes's picture

1) Mail.app's weak IMAP support...

1) Mail.app's weak IMAP support which drives me crazy on a regular basis - that and those god-awful lozenge buttons (which I used a hack I found online to replace them)

2) When using expose, even though I have a decent processor and a quite a bit of memory, there is some serious lag at times when I use it to switch applications

3) Funny wifi security protocol support - When folks use WEP of a flavour my mac doesn't support, and when you're on the road you need to be able to hook into anything (knowing as I do that WEP is junk - but it's a work thing). Yes, I know oh Apple Engineers that it's not the RIGHT way to do things, but this one gets in my way more times than I would like.

4) Address book forces you to enter things in successive order. Although I have gotten used to it, I've met quite a few people who are converts who it drives absolutely crazy.

5) Please release an iPhone with no phone, just wifi and everything else as a widescreen iPod. I love my hipster PDA, but I want the functionality and Cingulars' network is weak where I am.

 
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