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Okay. What this article says about the Mac is true. It's reliable and fast. I just bought a second one; so obviously I consider the benefits to outweigh the deficiencies--but barely. I thought about it for a long time, and I'm still not sure I did the right thing.

There are some things about the Mac that I absolutely hate:

For some reason, the designers do not like cut-and-paste. Maybe they think it's safer to copy-and-paste and then go back and delete. It's NOT. I have lost more files because of this cumbersome, inefficient, maddening defect than I ever lost by cut-and-paste. If the designers consider copy-and-paste-and-go-back-and-delete to be safer than cut-and-paste, fine, but they should give the consumer the option--at least.

Also you cannot blend two files and keep the contents of both; you can replace one with the other, but the contents of the replaced file are lost.

In combining and streamlining files, I have to borrow my wife's very inexpensive Toshiba, which is obviously ridiculous.

Furthermore, you cannot batch rename. If you have 30 photographs to name, you must click-and-rename each one--which is infuriating. You can't just click "rename" and type in "Paris, August 17, 2015" and have them all renamed-- Unless, of course, you have a wife with an inexpensive Toshiba.

Also, in the new Mac, you cannot merely save-as and keep the document in its location. You must go through several steps to choose the location you want. This is not an improvement.

People who are enamored of Apple seem to consider these charming little "quirks". They're not. They are serious and infuriating defects.

“For some reason, the designers do not like cut-and-paste. “

Huh? I use cut and paste all the time.

Your other problems I can’t address.

For some reason, the designers do not like cut-and-paste. Maybe they think it's safer to copy-and-paste and then go back and delete. It's NOT. I have lost more files because of this cumbersome, inefficient, maddening defect than I ever lost by cut-and-paste. If the designers consider copy-and-paste-and-go-back-and-delete to be safer than cut-and-paste, fine, but they should give the consumer the option--at least.

I assume you are referring to the Finder and moving files. How can you possibly "lose" files when the original is left in its original location until you have pasted it where you want it, then go back and delete the original? That is far safer than cutting it and then having a glitch occurring in the midst of finding a new location and attempting pasting it and having NOTHING happen, and going back and finding no original where you cut it from. Apple's method is far safer. Drag and drop is also safer because it leaves the original in place until the move is completed.

You want a Mac to behave like a Windows computer.

Also you cannot blend two files and keep the contents of both; you can replace one with the other, but the contents of the replaced file are lost.

What? If you try to copy a file into a folder where a file with the same name already exists, OS X will tell you that there is a conflict and offers to either replace the existing file, abort the copy, or continue and keep both, in which case you will have both, with a dash and a numerical designator following the later file to show its order of priority. If you are doing a batch process, you can give permission to do it for all such instances. Again, what are you talking about????

Furthermore, you cannot batch rename. If you have 30 photographs to name, you must click-and-rename each one--which is infuriating. You can't just click "rename" and type in "Paris, August 17, 2015" and have them all renamed-- Unless, of course, you have a wife with an inexpensive Toshiba.

BS, Beast. You just do not know how to do it. I do it all the time. It's simple and easy, available under the File menu. Again, you want the Mac to do it exactly like a Windows computers when it isn't a Windows Computer. It's a Mac. Here's proof that Macs can do it:

Batch File Renaming in Apple OS X finder

That does exactly what you claimed you cannot do in Apple OS X. . . and it is built in on the Finder. You just didn't look . . .

Also, in the new Mac, you cannot merely save-as and keep the document in its location. You must go through several steps to choose the location you want. This is not an improvement.

What????!!!! I do it every day working with revision documents. More of your mis-information, Beast. What in hell are you talking about????

Your complains boil down to, "It doesn't work like a Windows computer."