[dayglored]

Cue the Apple-bashers in... 3... 2... 1...

[dayglored]

Actually, I'll toss something in. As a engineer and network admin for decades, and Dir. of SysAdmin at a software house with offices VPN'ed around the globe, I have one complaint. Small, but damned annoying.

I talk to Cisco gear a lot -- our security system includes a score or so of PIXen and ASAs -- and their Java-based GUI doesn't render worth a damn on my Mac. Unfortunately, it makes my MacBook a little annoying as a carrying tool, such that I put a Win VM (under Fusion) on for the express purpose of dealing with the Cisco GUI.

Granted, I do most of my config work in IOS (PIX-OS, whatever) over the serial console. But there are times when the GUI is a nice display -- and yet it's damn near worthless on the Apple, while it displays just fine in Windows.

Part of it is the menu -- there are whole pieces missing, some of which are critical. But the geometry of the dialogs is screwed too, and repaint is stupid and incomplete a lot of the time.

I'm guessing this is at least partly the fault of the Apple Java. I wish I could get a Java update other than from Apple to test it out and see what's up.

That's about the worst complaint I have after switching from a Windows notebook to a MacBook. Not bad, overall...

[TXnMA]

"Cue the Apple-bashers in... 3... 2... 1..."

No, it's "Cue the Apple-user-bashers in... 3... 2... 1...".

Haven't you noticed that the MS folks have to resort to ad hominem" attacks like, "Fanboy", "Liberal", and "Gay" -- because they have learned that they simply cannot find a genuine fault with Apple's superior OS and software design...?