What annoys you about the Mac?

As I ebb further away from Windows towards switching to a Mac, I have a question for Mac users.

On a day-to-day basis, what -- in all honesty -- bugs you about the Mac? What, if anything, grinds you gears?

An awful lot.

I'll blog about it...

Such as?

You. You annoy me with your constant need for validation about your ludicrous decision to switch to a platform populated, for the most part, by people with goatees and a penchant for jazz music.

An Apple mac is, quite simply, just a PC. It's the same exact hardware you would find in any Windows-based PC. It's not special or innovative. It's an intel system like any other. The operating system is nothing new either. It's a window-based linux system that's not unlike any linux with either Gnome or KDE and a fancy graphical style, like Beryl.

Apple fans think they are buying into a lifestyle. They view Microsoft as the big, corporate bad-guy and Apple as the crusader against all that is wrong with computing. The fact is, Apple is as restrictive and domineering as MS, in fact you could argue that it's closed practices make it more monopolistic. Phones that can't use software unless it's approved by Apple corporation, iPods that work with one music store only and a music store that only works with one type of MP3 player.

Apple is after your money, it's not a big fluffy friend to the creative people of the world, it's a way of locking them into an Apple branded eco-system.

If you buy a Mac, then not only are you funding a closed, wall-garden, then you're also saying "me too" and branding your life with a mouldy, half-eaten apple.

The macbook is just a computer, like any other. If you want to buy a PC that's overpriced, get a Sony, otherwise choose from one of the other million laptops out there and opt out of the oppressive Apple regime

I'm with Ian on this one. Apple overprice their laptops/desktops (although the Mac Pro might be good value for money - if you really need that kind of power and customisation), and then, as you said, put restrictions in place. Apple just seem to do a good job at dressing it all up to look purdy.

Ah, Ian said all that so I didn't have to

However, in balance, I'm presuming these aren't the sort of things Nate was asking about.

Indeed.

If I had a Mac, I suspect that lack of compatibility with certain software would probably drive me up the wall. But then you could just use BootCamp to use Windows. If you wanted to.

Ian 1 - 0 Apple

Actually, it's Ian 1 - 0 Nate. The guy makes a sterling point, and I have gone on at length about this in the office.

I would never pay full price for a Mac. I am considering a new MacBook for several reasons:

1) I have to buy a new laptop and have about £800 - £1000 to spend
2) I get £200 knocked off the price of the MacBook
3) It's primarily for writing, Internet, Photoshop and email (ie: Work)
4) A Mac will never replace my desktop, which will always be a very hgih-specced XP box
5) I'm drawn to the elegance and enjoy the way Mac/iPhone/iPod function
6) Simplicity is key
7) I've always been a bit of a fanboy (At least I'm honest).