At home though, I do prefer Windows - it’s just that much easier to manage my stuff and all the software I use at home is very Windows centric. Dunno, maybe at my next job I’ll have to request a mac if they give me a PC. :X

You can’t alt-tab to minimized windows… so I stopped minimizing them. I hide them now, with command + H. It’s effectively minimizing the app, but you can still alt-tab to them. Keyboard navigation just takes awhile to get used to. I’m finally used to it now, but it took me 6months…

For video, the only options are VLC or the Perian filters. Perian lets you open all sorts of files with QT. QT isn’t the plague that it is on PC, but I still prefer VLC to QT on the mac.

That said, I miss expose a lot on the PC. My HD recently died and I went back to XPx64, only to find out software support is really shitty.. might have to move back to Vistax64.

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I’ve had zero problems with the iWork suite, which is reasonably priced and does a perfectly adequate job of dealing with Office docs.

After using the two-finger-right-click and two-finger-scroll…I never want to use a PC trackpad or thinkpad nub again.

I agree on TextMate, it’s a clean, minimalist editor that has a lot of powerful features….it’s even got an Erlang bundle

Otherwise, I really do like the machine. As a day to day dev machine it is really quite robust. It’s super stable, the screen is really nice, and it does most things that the average person would ever need. Especially at Yahoo we’re mostly LAMP, so the unix core is immensely helpful. Lots of unix tools migrate over to OSX with awesome GUI’s, so this is one thing I find very cool. Also, for front-end dev, I find TextMate indispensable. That along with Expandrive, which lets you mount remote FTP/SFTP/SSH as local volumes. Those are probably the two most important things in my dev workflow.

But there are some things that get to me.

1) Finder sucks. Explorer, as bad as it is, trumps it in every way. I don’t get why you can’t cut and paste files?
2) Home and End keys don’t work the way they do on PCs. On Macs, home and end go to the beginning and end of the document on keyboards that have those keys. You have to download an app to simulate PC like behavior, and even then it doesn’t work in all applications. Pg up/Pg down work as expected, though.
3) So much software is pay-for-software. I like having freeware/OSS stuff easily available on the PC, and OSX just doesn’t have that kind of community.
4) Lots of random tools are often PC only - like stuff I used to hack my SE phone’s firmware, or my PSP, etc.
5) VMWare 2.0 is essential. Office on the Mac is AWFUL. It’s a bloated piece of crap and the experience is subpar, even on the ‘08 version. I much prefer the PC ‘07 Office in VMWare.
6) CS3/CS4 is only 32-bit on mac… so it can’t make use of the 4GB+ memory you might have.