Lack of a dedicated Delete key irks me big time when I have to use a Mac.

Lack of it COMPLETELY in iOS is a travesty ! It proves Apple doesn’t always “get” productivity. Having to move the freaking cursor around and then backspace over text is frustrating and annoying. Delete function could easily be done by shift+backspace or some type of combo. At least it would be possible and we would have an efficient way to forward-delete text.

…Wait for it…

…iTunes.

Apple most certainly has a dock. It’s call the Apple Thunderbolt Display. When I bring my Macbook Air back to my desk, I attach a single cable. My display automatically moves it’s main screen to the larger display. My Air gets charged. All my external drives and either-net a plugged in the display and it all just starts working from that one tiny plug.

I can’t see how a dedicated dock would work any better. They ones I’ve used on work PC’s sucked. They were hard to plugin and desingage. And plugging into the dock would almost always mean I had to reboot to get everything working again.

Bottom line: This guy’s arguments are weak, and he’s lazy to boot. Maybe he ought to complain to some of his Windows buddies. For sure they’ll listen to his whining.

iOS is great for consumers, but some of us need a real OS to do serious work. Apple must refine its Mac OS for improved productivity or it will eventually be just another consumer has-been hardware maker. i.e., Sony. Pioneer. Nokia, etc.

… oh, and Apple can’t just hope for Windows 8 to kill Microsoft. Losing the consumer market didn’t hurt IBM quite as bad as people like to think. The bigger profit margins are in enterprise anyway.

That is the one area where PC laptops are better from a hardware standpoint.

I don’t have to plug anything in besides my laptop at work and my dock allows me to drive 3 separate displays. Its nice if I forget about the fact that I’m still using windows during the whole experience. lol.

Corporations use docking stations for laptops in order to provide access to an extended keyboard, mouse, monitor and other peripherals at one’s office or workstation. There are 3rd Party companies that make them. The cost is not unreasonable. Someone needs to give his IT department a clue.

As for pressing the Optical Drive eject button, there are several PC laptop or desktop keyboards where the backspace key is positioned right where the Optical Drive Eject key is located on a Mac. It’s just reflexive behavior that has to be unlearned. Again, not Apple’s fault.

There’s no control key necessary.

just Wrong. get a Thunderbolt monitor to go with that MacBook. then just one/two cords to plut in (TB/power) and your done.

most don’t realize that hardware costs are not the deciding factor for companies. leased over 5 years a TB monitor is maybe $15 per month – chump change. training and IT support are the real big costs, and employee productivity is the big reward on smart captial investment.

So how can you grouch about iTunes when there is no Windows equal???

I used to hate the command+tab switches applications and not windows. However, after using the Mac for several years I have learned that it’s much better to switch apps then switch windows between the app. Command + ` always works perfectly for me…if you know how it works. It switches from the most recently used window from the current window. So the order can change. A switching menu similar to the command + tab overlay would be helpful.

Except fo the MS related issues, I don’t have the same problems he does.

Cmd+Shift+3 take a shot of the entire desktop

Cmd+Shift+4 gives you a set of crosshairs so you can click and drag to choose what part of the screen to grab.

Also, in Cmd+Shift+4 mode, move the crosshairs over any window and press space, that will grab the window your crosshairs are over.

I don’t use Outlook with my MS Office. If Apple had a real Excel equivalent, I would drop MS Office too.