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Around last August, I purchased a 27" iMac computer when they refreshed the line.
8 months later, I can say that I honestly, and truly, regret this purchase for a variety of reasons.
Recently, I've been using Windows (through Boot Camp) more and more since I use 3D Studio Max (and there is no OSX version).
With OSX, I feel so 'limited' in what I can do, especially in the Finder. When I'm organizing my files - mostly music, I often have to sort the songs by their length - which is easily done in Windows Explorer as you can add in many, many columns and sort by almost any variable you can think of. Not so with the Finder - very few choices and song length isn't one of them.
Also, I have some folders that are 8-10 layers deep, and if I have to move them around, Windows Explorer makes it easy, as it's 2 panes: One showing only folders and subfolders, the other showing files/folders within folders, so it's very easy to find and move files. Not so with Finder, as you have to either a) copy the files > find the destination folder and paste..or..click and hold while hovering over each folder until you get to the one you want, and often you have like 10 Finder windows open, really messy in my opinion. I find this very clunky, especially for an OS that is claimed to be more 'advanced' than Windows
For the higher resolution settings within OSX, there is no option to make the icons or text bigger, which basically rendered anything beyond 1080P absolutely unusable and unreadable. But guess what? in Windows 7, Icon size and text can be adjusted as it's resolution independent. Again..how is OSX more advanced when one feature renders everything unusable and no way to correct it?
For almost every application that I use on OSX, that also has a Windows variation (like Winrar vs UnrarX), I mostly find the Windows applications to be far easier to use and far more friendly. With Winrar - you can navigate inside the rar file and extract anything in there on it's own and to any folder you want. With UnrarX..no such luck, you have to unrar the entire thing into a temp folder..or, if there is an option to set it, you have to set the folder every time you unrar something, instead of a simple 'Extract to' option. That's the example I can come up with, but Windows programs are just more user friendly.
Same with anything in a zip file. OSX un-archives them in a pre-set folder that you can't change, and you have to go into the Finder and move stuff around, instead of a simple 'Unzip to' option.
iTunes (the music player)..hate it. By making it 'easier'..it makes it a lot harder to do almost anything I can do elsewhere like opening playlists!. Half of the playlists I have made within Winamp or Foobar don't work within iTunes. Because of this, I use Foobar for playing music, and Media Monkey for transferring music to my iPods. iTunes simply doesn't do the simplist tasks for me.
And here, here is the 'last straw'..that if I knew about this, I definatly wouldn't have purchased this iMac: the SMB file sharing from OSX is junk - at least for my purposes. Last year, I purchased a Dune Base 3.0 player (network media streamer). Using the SMB file sharing from OSX, a high-def episode of any show takes *2* minutes to load from the time I press 'play' on my streamer to the time it actually begins playing. 2 Minutes! Totally unaccecptable. That exact same file, but sharing from Windows 7? It takes 10..seconds. That's a huge difference, and since I play movies often enough, THIS was the final straw and enough to make me regret the purchase, to be honest.
With Apple trying to make things 'easier' on people, they made things harder, more frustrating and taking longer to adjust variables then it needs to be. I truly regret this purchase and if I wouldn't lose half of the value, I would have sold this computer.
The only positive thing: It's the most stable Windows computer I've had. Not a single crash/blue-screen.
8 months later, I can say that I honestly, and truly, regret this purchase for a variety of reasons.
Recently, I've been using Windows (through Boot Camp) more and more since I use 3D Studio Max (and there is no OSX version).
With OSX, I feel so 'limited' in what I can do, especially in the Finder. When I'm organizing my files - mostly music, I often have to sort the songs by their length - which is easily done in Windows Explorer as you can add in many, many columns and sort by almost any variable you can think of. Not so with the Finder - very few choices and song length isn't one of them.
Also, I have some folders that are 8-10 layers deep, and if I have to move them around, Windows Explorer makes it easy, as it's 2 panes: One showing only folders and subfolders, the other showing files/folders within folders, so it's very easy to find and move files. Not so with Finder, as you have to either a) copy the files > find the destination folder and paste..or..click and hold while hovering over each folder until you get to the one you want, and often you have like 10 Finder windows open, really messy in my opinion. I find this very clunky, especially for an OS that is claimed to be more 'advanced' than Windows
For the higher resolution settings within OSX, there is no option to make the icons or text bigger, which basically rendered anything beyond 1080P absolutely unusable and unreadable. But guess what? in Windows 7, Icon size and text can be adjusted as it's resolution independent. Again..how is OSX more advanced when one feature renders everything unusable and no way to correct it?
For almost every application that I use on OSX, that also has a Windows variation (like Winrar vs UnrarX), I mostly find the Windows applications to be far easier to use and far more friendly. With Winrar - you can navigate inside the rar file and extract anything in there on it's own and to any folder you want. With UnrarX..no such luck, you have to unrar the entire thing into a temp folder..or, if there is an option to set it, you have to set the folder every time you unrar something, instead of a simple 'Extract to' option. That's the example I can come up with, but Windows programs are just more user friendly.
Same with anything in a zip file. OSX un-archives them in a pre-set folder that you can't change, and you have to go into the Finder and move stuff around, instead of a simple 'Unzip to' option.
iTunes (the music player)..hate it. By making it 'easier'..it makes it a lot harder to do almost anything I can do elsewhere like opening playlists!. Half of the playlists I have made within Winamp or Foobar don't work within iTunes. Because of this, I use Foobar for playing music, and Media Monkey for transferring music to my iPods. iTunes simply doesn't do the simplist tasks for me.
And here, here is the 'last straw'..that if I knew about this, I definatly wouldn't have purchased this iMac: the SMB file sharing from OSX is junk - at least for my purposes. Last year, I purchased a Dune Base 3.0 player (network media streamer). Using the SMB file sharing from OSX, a high-def episode of any show takes *2* minutes to load from the time I press 'play' on my streamer to the time it actually begins playing. 2 Minutes! Totally unaccecptable. That exact same file, but sharing from Windows 7? It takes 10..seconds. That's a huge difference, and since I play movies often enough, THIS was the final straw and enough to make me regret the purchase, to be honest.
With Apple trying to make things 'easier' on people, they made things harder, more frustrating and taking longer to adjust variables then it needs to be. I truly regret this purchase and if I wouldn't lose half of the value, I would have sold this computer.
The only positive thing: It's the most stable Windows computer I've had. Not a single crash/blue-screen.