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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?

Terence's picture

Awesome. You might want to...

Awesome. You might want to publish a top ten list of Mac Whines, updated regularly. I'll be posting often. :-) Just for starters:

  • .DS_Store
  • Finder (what's up with that? it's a half app!)
  • Dashboard delay
  • I can't edit the Get Info of more than 10 files at once
  • Special characters compatibility: I'm Brazilian using an English UK config. If I want to use characters such as: ç ã á ô etc. I need to disable Rich Text (Mail) or paste special, without style. I don't like to be styleless.
  • Finder
  • WMV support
  • And as a new entry, the amazing error -9972. This is brand new, and if you don't know about it, it seems it's pretty common and it's fatal if you don't discover it in time. I was warned of this error with Onyx, the maintenance app (great one, btw).
 
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