What do I like on Mac:
1) You can easily open a cd/dvd image (iso) out of box
2) Small applications like Calendar and Address Book are really easy to use and still extremely useful
3) No shining blue LEDs
4) Unified keyboard shortcut for application settings (Command+,)
5) Nice terminal
6) Text auto-correction in all applications
7) Uniform icon decorations for counting (like number of unread emails in Mail icon)
8) Recovery disk on the hard disk. So you don't have to boot from a slow CD.
9) Touchpad gestures
10) Simple management of wireless networks
11) Unified management of passwords
12) Virtual screens
13) Full screen mode of some applications where the application doesn't cover all the applications but rather creates a new desktop. Hence switching between the application and the rest of the system is fluent and fast.
14) The accents marks are displayed immediately, not like in Windows, where you don't know whether you have really pressed the accent key or not until you press another key.
15) You can trash a file, which is still in use, without an error message.
16) Applications are just one file. And installation and uninstallation of such application is easy.
17) I fall in love with Alfred, a quick launch application that 'predicts what do I want to run much faster and accurately than the default quick launch in the top right corner.
18) Omnifocus is another great To-Do utility.
19) Global switching of keyboard layout. Not application based as in Windows.
20) The password inboxes are
delightfully shaking if you input wrong password.
What I don't like on Mac:
1) No Paint Brush by default.
2)
Some keyboard shortcuts are ridiculous. For example print screen used
to be one keyboard stroke, but on mac it is Control+Command+Shift+4.
Ridiculous.
3) Window controls on Mac are unpredictable, sometimes you can close application, sometimes not.
4)
When I click on an already active application in the task bar, the
application should minimise. Or do something. Not so on Mac.
5) Can't control everything with just a keyboard.
6) Windows decoration is grey as everything else. Thus it is hard to distinguish the borders between the windows.
7) Windows on Mac are strangely layered - sometimes freshly started application pops up, sometimes it is hidden behind others.
8) You can't uninstall Os X applications like Mail. So when the are broken you have to reinstall whole system.
9)
Forget about Microsoft Office for Mac. They are crap. Word for Mac is
not fully compatible with Word for Windows. Just try to work with
equation editor on Mac and then open it on Windows. It's not going to
work nicely. And Excel for Mac is a joke as well - you can't work with a
big amount of data in Excel since it is sooooooooooo slow.
10)
Task manager doesn't allow increase or decrease the priority of a
process - you have to do that from the console. And when one process
steals all the processor resources it's really a pain to use other
applications. On Windows you can use other applications with a hungry
application in the background without any issue.
11) Lack of compatibility - with each version of mac Os X you have to use updated applications. In comparison on Windows you can run 10 years old without any problem, you can quite likely run 20 years (except games) and even 30 years DOS applications work.
12) It's hard to switch between different spell checkers. If you write just in one language it's fine but if you are bilingual you have a problem.
13) Ping command doesn't work completely. Supposedly it should support a variable size of payload but this setting didn't work. In the end I had to use Windows' ping command.
14) There isn't any keyboard shortcut for displaying context menu. In windows there is a button dedicated for that. But Mac doesn't even have a shortcut for that.
