10 things I don't like about my Mac

OK, calm down, I love my Mac. But I'm not blind with love: there are things I do not like.

Wake up, dammit!

Sometimes I put my MacBook Pro to sleep and then realize, ooops, no, I forgot something. Tap the ENTER key, it ignores me. I have to go pour a glass of water before it's ready to wake up.

Broken Key

Speaking of hitting that RETURN key, this is the second Mac I've owned where that key breaks. It's either too thin (did you save 100th of a cent on that, Apple?) or doesn't have enough support. Mine is held together with clear tape right now.. kind of chintzy on a $2,200.00 box, I think.

I want more RAM

What, a 3GB hard wired limit? Who made this decision? Nowadays we use RAM like peanuts - 4GB is the minimum that should be possible, and 16GB is more like it!

I could use some more disk space too..

Why can't I virtualize OS X?

If I had OS X Server I could, so why can't I do it with MY OS X?

I see the lights, I see the city lights

But I don't see the backlit keyboard lights because Preferences keeps unchecking that. I had to go get http://labtick.proculo.de/ to get control of these lights.

Silly Reboots

A few days ago I had to reboot for a QuickTime patch. QuickTime? I need to restart the whole computer because of QuickTime? Doesn't seem right to me, but we get a lot of this kind of thing.

Scary Reboots - Talk to Me!

Whoah, that 10.5.2 update sure took a while, didn't it? And gives darn little feedback about what it's doing. Guys: if the screen doesn't change every two seconds at least, I get worried. Better too much chatter than too little when it comes to patches.

Spotlight

No, really, I love Spotlight, especially on Leopard. But I want more control over what it indexes - I don't like having to name something with a ".txt" extension to get Spotlight to see it. If I want my "H" file indexed, I should be able to have that.

And that goes for you, too, Quicklook!

I wrote a little shell script to make Quicklook behave better, but it would be nice if I could just tell it what to do, wouldn't it?

And then finally..

Nothing. I couldn't think of ten things. That's good, really: mostly it's "What's not to like?" in the Mac world. But that's just my list - other people dislike other things, and we all know that no OS can be all things to all people.

It's pretty darn close though..