Originally Posted by
tfar
I'll give you an example of two things that I do almost daily and that are FAR easier on a PC. They have to do with pictures that are supposed to be easier to handle in Mac.
I open a folder with pics. All the pics show as thumbnails or other variations. I do a single click on View as Slideshow and I can view the entire folder as a slideshow in Full Screen mode. With Mac that takes five or six clicks and it is so not evident that I forgot it again after somebody explained it to me.
open the folder, select all (command-a) and tap the space bar. when the quick look window appears, click the play button or if you prefer, step through the images one by one. you can also click the full screen button or move and resize the quick look window. this works with movies as well as photos, along with various other file types such as pdf, text, excel, etc.
Resize pictures to integrate into a mail. With PC there are two ways. Either click the send as mail button and it will ask you how to resize them. Or you use the powertool resizer. Simply select all the pictures you want to resize. Right click and select Resize. Bingo. All pictures appear in the same folder in the resized version with an amended file name. The originals are still there. With Mac that same operation is super complicated. I checked it out online and followed the steps. It took three times as long. I decided I will continue using PC for photo work. Even MS Pictureviewer is easier to understand than bloody Iphoto where I need to import stuff before it works. Stupid!
assuming apple mail, drag the image into a mail message and at the bottom of the window is a popup menu to resize the image. there is no need to use iphoto, but iphoto can also export an image directly to mail in various sizes. the resize is done on the fly so there's no need to have duplicate images in multiple sizes.
Not being able to maximize windows with a single click is also ridiculous.
the mac has a zoom button, not a maximize button and they're not the same. the function of the zoom button is under the apps control, not the operating system (the app just gets a zoom message), and it usually resizes the window to best show its content. having a window be full screen, particularly on a 24-30" monitor, is wasteful of screen space.
Besides this, Mac is the superior end user experience but it does cost twice the money.
macs do
not cost twice the money for a similar configuration. prices are fairly close when specs are matched (which they are often not).