"I've been using Macs almost exclusively now for about 7 months - since just after I joined Yahoo! and got my PowerBook to go with my mini at home. Now that I've been using Macs for a while, I'm wondering if they're all that special. The hardware is nice, but OS X can be as slow, buggy, non-standard, frustrating and annoying as any other operating system. Also, I don't really use most of the included apps, so most of what makes OSX so special doesn't really apply to me," writes Russelll Beattie.
"Let me be more specific about what I see as non-plusses, I'll just list them out in no special order, but conveniently numbered so the zealots can refer to each number directly while defending their beloved macs..."
Comment: Beattie lists 33 complaints and many are personal, but he does score some hits. In particular, I think the Dock is a usability disaster, and his description of Expose ("it's nuts") is far too kind. However, as various people have pointed out in comments, anyone switching the other way could probably find 33 complaints to make about XP -- or more.
