Mac Annoyances
Generally I’m really happy with my new MacBook Pro. It’s fast, quiet, and keeps me warm in sub-zero weather. But there are some things that bug me:
- I can’t resize a window without accidentally changing both height and width. Apple needs to add modifier key support for one-axis resizing, a la Photoshop
- Icon spacing in Finder is too wide with icon sizes are small
- The file system is pseudo-case-insensitive. This means if you want to change the case of a file, you can’t do “mv A a” You have to do “mv A temp; mv temp a”.
- There is no way to drag an item in Finder into the item’s parent folder.
- Boot camp needs to have the so-called “sleep camp” feature, which does a safe sleep in OS X, then boots into Windows. Reboots cause Coppit to lose desktop state, which makes Coppit sad.
- My mighty mouse doesn’t have real buttons, which means that if I need to drag something from one corner to the next, I have to shove my keyboard out of the way to get there. With a buttoned mouse, I could keep the button down while I lifted the mouse and put it back down.