So I've been running a Mac OS X Leopard machine from 10.5.0 to 10.50.2 and it has been a journey for this Windows user.
While the OS looks pretty, and many things are dumbed down for use, there are still many issues with this OS that make me wonder why so many people praise it's tunes.
Issue A, in no particular order) Lockups. I have had many lockups on 10.5.x. They still continue. Many patches have been released, but the issues still occur. Most of the time it is while I am playing something either in iTunes, DVD Player, or Front Row. It will often hard lock requiring a power cycle.
Issue B) Bugs. There are many plain bugs in the system. They just released a firmware update to resolve an issue where you type a key stroke and nothing happens. This has been a royal pain to deal with, especially on passwords. Things are better now, but not resolve. In Mail if I change an account from IMAP to IMAPS it will show the port 993 (usually) in the screen - but it tries to connect with port 143 per the firewall logs. Have to mess with it over and over and finally it will take. The Network Neighborhood seems to only check for clients at startup, and then drop them off as they sleep - but never update with new clients. The only way to get the list back again that I've found is to drop Airport and bring it back online. iChat bombs out during video chats.
Issue C) The thing gets very hot, especially in bootcamp. No temperature controls in Windows.
Issue D) Can't listen to unprotected WMA's in iTunes. WTF?
Issue E) Hardware. Only two USB ports and only one providing the full mA of power. No media buttons. Metal case shocks the crap out of you if you have a static charge. Plugging something into the speaker jack often kills the audio signal completely. Especially in games. Restarting the audio in the game will fix it, if it has that option.
Issue F) Nothing like NTBackup included. Must purchase .Mac or some other tool to get backup software. Time Machine hardware is expensive. Why can't I do system recovery backup to my USB drive with out of the box software?
Issue G) No NTFS read/write built in. Again, wtf? I'm not installing NTFS-3G et al when the projects are either dead, have known issues which say do not install in production environments, or commercial. This should be out of the box.
For the most part, I like the Mac. But these are some rather major issues. Especially when I paid almost twice as much for the Mac over a very similar Dell.
