Well i have setup Spaces and Expose in my Mac . I have also configured mouse gestures to invoke Expose and Spaces in my Mac so that when i move my mouse pointer to upper left corner i see all of the open Windows . And similarly when i move my mouse pointer to lower right corner of Screen i see the Spaces. I frequently use the Expose than Spaces . 

But today i kinda found a bug or limitation in the Expose of Mac. When i miniminse one of the open Windows and just within a second if i move my mouse to top left corner to invoke the Expose so that i can see all the windows Open . In this case i still can see the blank window space representing just minimized window . The occupying space of that window doesn’t have anything visible but when the mouse points hover over that particular space seems Expose gives information of the just minimized window and when clicked the minimized window gets focussed. 

This doesn’t happen when i move the mouse pointer to invoke Expose after a Window which i minimized has completely minimized and stayed in the Dock. May be you couldn’t visualize all the things i have explained here — The below screencast should give a clear understanding about what i am talking about here.

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Well there is one more very simple and minute reason i should be unhappy while using Mac ( being come from Windows world ). Its been more than half year i have been using Mac in my home computing use but still i am not used to its some of the behavior. This particular reason i dont like Mac is related to the Mac’s Window Full screen issue. Most of the Mac application dont go full screen to fit the monitor width but some of them do. For example i have used Adobe Photoshop which takes whole screen width while clicking Green Maximize control button . Similarly Adobe Reader and Default Mail app also behaves same. The problem i liked to mention here is even if the application window goes full screen to take the whole window width they are movable or draggable . Whats the logic behind this Apple ? Why the hell we want to move the application windows after it has taken entire screen width. We dont want to see the part of application window by moving it . The windows in this scenario should be fixed to the screen as long as user doesn’t click Green maximize button. 

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Have you ever noticed the Finder’s toolbar has some kind of mistake ( i think so ). The finder toolbar has Back/Forward button , View buttons, Quick Look, Action and a search box by default. One interesting thing i am not comfortable with is that why is the Back/Forward button labeled “Back” only . If it was to be labeled “Back” there should have been only Back Button and not the Forward button . Do you think its some kind of negligence or something which is not much thought of when designed ? .

The video was cut on a Mac.

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A good read i found at mac360

With one exceptional criticism, I’ve been uncharacteristically silent about this issue. Macs are not as good as they used to be.
I’ve been using a new HP Windows Vista PC for almost a month. Guess what? Vista isn’t so bad.
Heresy, you say? Maybe not. I don’t think Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X Leopard, or even Tiger. Once a product has been on the market for awhile, a reputation grows, not always reflective of reality.
Vista’s reputation is carried over from Windows XP, the Swiss cheese of desktop operating systems, with more security holes than the Bush Administration.
That reputation is one of a buggy piece of software which isn’t fully backwards compatible, full of glossy eye candy, and requiring some modern, capable hardware to make it run decently.
How does that reputation compare to Mac OS X Leopard, which is loved by the Microsoft-bashing media and described as God’s gift to computer users everywhere (those who can afford it).
To hear the media pundits tell it, OS X Leopard is ultra modern, ultra secure, never crashes, runs only the coolest apps, is easier to set up, easier to learn, easier to maintain.
My view of reality is much different. To be honest, Apple’s recent Intel Macs and OS X Leopard are the two buggiest products the company has unleashed on customers in over a decade.
I’ve gone through five Macs in less than two years, and all of them have caused me constant problems; bad displays, bad keyboards, bad motherboards, bad hard drives, bad OS.

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