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What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple
An anonymous reader writes "Forbes.com went to MacWorld to ask Apple fans what bugs them about the computer and gadget maker. Turns out the lack of replaceable batteries, need to buy Vista separately, and most of all the stock price bugs people."
Not vista, but it would be helpful to buy a Mac pre-configured with bootcamp + Windows XP. I don't want it at home, but at work it would be quite nice. I could see small business customers loving it.
My boss and I make jokes about Apple, Inc. vs. Apple Computer, Inc. Dropping computer in the name was not just to aid in the sale of phones. I think Apple has lost some focus on their computers. Leopard has not been as big as they had hoped. We're putting off the upgrade at work as long as possible. Leopard reminds me of vista in many ways. I won't bother to argue that point again. I know some people love Leopard and I've even found one person at work who loves Vista. I'm still hoping for a patch to get rid of the memory leaks with their new garbage collection in Cocoa. Most "power" users I know can get about a day a gigabyte (RAM) out of Leopard. I get two to three days out of my old PowerMac with 1.75GB of RAM. A friend of mine has 3GB in a Mac Pro and he can get 3-4 days before a required reboot. My boss has 2GB in his iMac, and left it on during the holidays. He couldn't login to it to reboot when he got back after a week. There are problems with it.
I also seem problems with customer service. I pre-ordered Leopard. It came at 9AM on release day. I attempted to install it on my wife's Mac Pro. The DVD was damaged and I hadn't noticed. I skipped the disc check and prepared to install only to have the install die. I'm not blaming apple for having a non bootable Mac. That was my fault. However, I had to wait until 6PM to call them, wait on hold for 10 minutes to talk to someone, and then 50 more minutes to get a resolution. They didn't have 10.5 in their system yet to send me a replacement disc. The tech eventually arranged for me to go to the nearest apple store. He said I just needed the DVD and original package. I walked in to be harrassed by the Apple Store employees for not bringing a receipt. Had that Mac been my only system, I could not print it anyway! It wouldn't boot. The box only had a packing slip. I offered to bring it up on a demo system, but they didn't want that. Finally, they gave me a new Leopard box. I haven't been very fond of going to that apple store ever sense. The tech was nice, and I did realize it was a launch day. I didn't appreciate the shitty service at the apple store. It's not the first time I had problems in that store. I ordered online so I wouldn't have to go there. I had a friend who had to get his laptop fixed. They guy told him bootcamp was beta in Leopard! He also told him it was too unstable to use. WTF.
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You can redeem an iTune gift card without a credit card.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/giftcard/
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Have you tried Command-Delete? Also known as the Apple key, Apple tends to use this key as a modifier for many Finder shortcuts.
What strange and pointless article. Macs have all sorts of well documented deficiencies in either hardware or design, and even the most loyal fanbois will usually acknowledge them.
I am coming to believe that the rabid fanboi is a mythological figure. I have never once actually encountered such a person.
To wit - my preference for a Delete key instead of dragging files to a trash icon is not a weakness on my part, it's a more than reasonable preference. Regardless of all the keyboard options and such, there are many times when I simply prefer to press Delete.
Try hitting Cmd-Delete.
Apple sells two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard in first weekend
Additionally, Jobs revealed in his keynote that in 90 days, Apple had shipped 5 million copies of Leopard (which of course, means retail boxes plus new machines, but Leopard undoubtedly helped sell those machines). This resulted in 20% of the installed base running the new OS in 90 days.
You were saying?
Mikey-San
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Command-period has been the "cancel" keyboard shortcut on Mac OS for over 20 years, I suspect it will work where you're talking about with the progress bar.
And check out "full keyboard access" stuff in the system preferences, you'll find that not only can you use the keyboard for menu activation and such, you can also create your own custom shortcuts for almost any operation in any application you like. The keyboarding capabilities of the Mac OS are superior, overall, to pretty much any other system I can think of. Add on Quicksilver or something similar and it can get downright crazy how much you can accomplish in arbitrary applications without touching a mouse.
If you're somewhat new to the Mac, I recommend picking up one of David Pogue's books, he provides a great mixture of theory and practical information about how things are designed to work.
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