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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Before using Mac my favorite browser in Windows was Firefox ( not that i hate IE ,  because of Firefox addons features basically i love Firefox) . But when i moved to Apple Mac my favorite browser is Safari though it doesn’t have Addon’s flexibility as compared to Firefox . In Firefox world viewing the saved passwords is really easy . You just need to go to Firefox preferences in Mac ( and tools> options in Windows ) then to Security tab and click on the “Saved Passwords” then “Show Passwords” . Getting the forgotten passwords was , and still is , this easy in Firefox . I keep forgetting my usernames and passwords i use in different sites and personally i used this feature of Firefox many times. Quite sometimes i have also revealed my friends’ saved passwords , like a prank , in their Firefox browser . It is quite fun if your friends are not much aware of these stuffs.

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Every time i see a movie in my Mac with of course in its default Movie player - QuickTime, I always get irritated with its Seek bar. I have a habit of seeking back the movie to re-watch the favorite scenes in them. To do this i generally move the seek bar cursor to reach to that scene time stamp which i just found good.  Doing this in Windows Media player - Windows default media player is very easy because the Seek bar in Windows media player is wide enough to move the seek cursor to particular time stamp . (More to this Windows media player plays audio video both not like Mac which has two players for Audio and Video i.e., iTunes and QuickTime ). Basically Windows media player’s seek bar extends from very left of the screen to ver right leaving long enough place to seek the movie to desired time stamp.

But in contrast QuickTime in Mac has a very small controller which cant also be resized ( why ???????? ) . The controller fits all controls including seek bar . Moving the time stamp cursor in QuickTime seek bar never reaches to the exact desired time stamp . Because of this i hate to see movies in QuickTime . And even if i see movies in QuickTime i use the fast forward/backward button to reach to the desired time stamp to re-watch my favorite scene . I find this particular  control in QuickTime very frustating . What about you?

Apple Store in china is running Windows XP for its large display ?

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As i already wrote that its impossible to close open Mac windows from their minimized state . Its actually a major drawback i see in Mac as compared to Windows. In this post i am again concerned about closing of window but in its maximised or open state. Well an open windows can of course be closed in Mac by clicking the top left Red button . There are three buttons at the top left side of Mac open windows Red is for close Yellow for minimize and Green for maximize ( precisely speaking fit to appropriate size ) .

But the problem i see here as compared to Windows is regarding reaching the small red close button of Mac windows. Any open window in Mac doesn’t take the whole screen area by default .

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