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I haven't used a Mac in ages, but i remember it had some features that I thought were particularly stupid; I like the idea of software eject, for example, but Apple's implementation of it (at least in System 6, and, as I understand, all the way up to Mac OS 9 if not X) is just brain-damaged: you drag a disk icon to the trash to eject it. Common sense not only suggests that if you drag an icon of a disk to the trash, it's because you either want to empty its contents, or format it, but that the "Eject Disk" button on the Special Menu should do "what it says on the tin" (as the saying goes here in the UK), and furthermore without asking you to replace the disk for apparently no reason. My main problem with Macs, though, is that they come from one supplier. I have been sufficiently burned in the past, both by products limited to one supplier (Commodore Amigas), and crap-but-locked-in products in a supposedly free market, that I simply can't bring myself to put myself in a reliant-on-one-supplier position again. I don't know if they have since changed this, but i understand that in Mac OS X, Apple changed the Finder so that it only displayed one window, with the contents of the directory you're in, at one time, instead of opening the contents of each directory you've gone through; thus you have to use a special mode of the finder to find another directory into which, say, you want a drag a file. Nasty. That, and the presence of the Dock, also presumably mean the death of a really cool feature - tabs for open windows at the bottom of the screen. What a shame.
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