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I hate when I try to make a harmless little joke and forget to add the smilie. This then causes the thread starter to turn into a drama queen.

       

WhirlinGraphics wrote:

I hate when I try to make a harmless little joke and forget to add the smilie. This then causes the thread starter to turn into a drama queen.

       

Thanks for adding substance to the thread yet a second time.

macnuke wrote:

the Mighty Mouse and it's super crappy uncleanable scroll wheel.

pounds the table in agreement.

wellfleation wrote:

The chin on the iMac looks stupid. Hopefully they will chop some of it off for the ucoming revisions. I keep telling my sister-n-law to wait, new better iMacs are on the way any day now!

It's a great surface for post-it notes.

I just got a new MBP and I love it for the most part. It depends on the context in which you view them.

I have yet to see a Windows notebook with dedicated graphics that manages to be as thin-and-light as the MBP - those that are tend to cost the same. I actually love the trackpad compared to those on most other laptops. I think using two fingers for a right-click is much better than trying to contort my hand so my thumb can hit a button on the right side of the touchpad. The two-finger scrolling is a much better solution IMHO. They do need a solution for a center-click, but few people actually require it. I have a Mighty Mouse and it's OK, not my first choice but it came with the other Mac in the house. I also use the keyboard and like that. The only thing that bugs me about the mini display port is that Apple no longer includes an adapter. I also need to order a cable for HDMI. The battery life has been great so far, but it's only been a couple days. If I had my way, the optical drive would be replaced with another USB port or two and the ExpressCard slot. I'd gladly use an external for the few times I actually use an optical drive. The new display shows fingerprints and smudges.

I use my laptop as my only system, so a lower-price PC laptop or netbook doesn't cut it. I used to have a separate Windows box for gaming, but gladly got rid of it. The MBP isn't the best gaming rig, but I only use it for games like Spore, WoW and (soon?) StarCraft II. I have the 360 for other games. The MBP works well for programming and coming from a 13" MacBook, I like the increased screen real estate.

iTunes is confusing and annoying.

- View selections in finder (font size) not remember no matter how many smurfing times I set that smurf as the default.
- Not much else. Just little quirks that never seem to get worked on.


- Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and all similar companies who ignore that Macs exist across their web presence and in tech support channels. For example, if you try to use verizon chat support, and they find out you have a mac (even if it's a DSL connection issue) they make you call instead. I guess I hate that about the companies, not Macs.

Hitting the space bar, for 20 years, brought you to the top of an alphabetically sorted list.

Now, in 10.5 and later, it brings up that stupid preview box.

I haven't bothered finding out if there's a way to change it, though.

dv wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

The chin on the iMac looks stupid. Hopefully they will chop some of it off for the ucoming revisions. I keep telling my sister-n-law to wait, new better iMacs are on the way any day now!

It's a great surface for post-it notes.

I've got mine plastered in post its! I try to force myself to use note taking programs and stickies but there's just something about seeing all those little bits of paper with hand scribbled notes (with my awful left-handed writing no less!) that just adds that nice lived in feeling to my home office.

Bren wrote:

Expose. I hate, HATE, HATE, HATE Expose. It is the most worthless, annoying, confusing, irritating thing ever. What is the use of having all the windows suddenly go crazy for absolutely no reason? I am reminded of this because my iMac's in the shop, and I'm temporarily using an old G4 tower with a relatively fresh install of 10.4.11 on it. Would somebody remind me, please, how I can permanently disable Expose?

Thank you.

System Preferences -> Exposé & Spaces -> Exposé tab -> Turn all of the "Active Screen Corner" and "Exposé" options to blank.

Myself, I find great value in Exposé, ESPECIALLY when I'm writing a report, and I've got a dozen different Word files open that I need to switch between. (EDIT: Command + ` switches between application windows as well, but you end up cycling a lot if you have many files open. And Word 2008 is kind of buggy with the Command + `...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.)

Remember that Exposé is not just about showing ALL windows (you can disable just that one option if you want). It can also show only Applications windows, such as the example of Word I gave above.

Last edited by SomeOneOrOther (2009-10-08 4:44 pm)

Beowulf wrote:

Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and all similar companies who ignore that Macs exist across their web presence and in tech support channels. For example, if you try to use verizon chat support, and they find out you have a mac (even if it's a DSL connection issue) they make you call instead. I guess I hate that about the companies, not Macs.

Yep, pretty much. When I get that "We don't support Macs" (Verizon, set-up is the same) I come back with "You do not support computers?" Then I tell the tech what I need and what I'm looking at.
Stupid

SomeOneOrOther wrote:

My gripe with Mac (besides no Blu-Ray)? FLASH. YouTube on my MacBook, I'll hear the fans roaring without fail. Google Street View? Yeah, that too uses Flash. Same result.

Can we set up a petition to Adobe to improve Flash (if all other reasons for high CPU usage can be ruled out)?

FLASH on your MacBook? What about the lack of it all together for all iPhones and Touches. Can't view good websites or stream audio content off of any as they are all FLASH based. Unless you have a Sirius Radio account and download their free app, which of course does not include their best channels.