When I had a PowerMac, every time I needed to burn a CD/DVD I had to look up the steps. Dragging a window from one monitor to the other often doesn't display the window, and if a window is full-screen, Option-Tab won't bring any other windows on top of it.
The hardware is nice, and generally high quality, but my battery started to bulge and the repair (replace keyboard and new batter) was over $500.
I like it, but I wouldn't turn up my nose at alternatives. Since most of my job is typing, and web browsing, almost anything short of a Commodore VIC-20 would be fine.
- Login screen sometimes has US keyboard layout even when the language selector shows otherwise.
- "Installing apps" where you drag them on the applications folder and you get no progress for that copy operation anywhere.
- Permission changes, for example for camera and microphone access, require application restarts.
- Photos application unable to handle even a small amount of pictures copied from my phone, crashes or freezes your machine.
- Thumbnail size in file selection dialogs and even directly in Finder is completely useless.
What apps do you install that take so long that a progress bar would be useful?
"- Photos application unable to handle even a small amount of pictures copied from my phone, crashes or freezes your machine."
I have thousands of pictures in Photos, and it has never once frozen or crashed. Are you doing something unusual?
"- Thumbnail size in file selection dialogs and even directly in Finder is completely useless."
This is adjustable.
I can use control+left/right to switch desktops, but can use shift+control+left/right to move a window left or right.
IMO it hides less about the disk layout than Windows Explorer does, but "it's better than Windows Explorer" is a low bar indeed.
"don't get me started on the Magic Mouse and it's charging port"
I use that mouse every day and I've literally NEVER needed to use it while charging. It warns me with ample time and charges insanely quickly. I get a warning? I'll plug it in when I get a coffee or over lunch. End of.
The other thing that nobody seems to pay any attention to is this: The current Magic Mouse is pretty much EXACTLY the same as the prior AAA-powered version except for the battery and charging. I'd bet folding money that one reason they went the way they did was that it allowed them to make zero design changes outside the area that USED to hold AAA batters, and now holds the rechargeable battery and port.
This means they could do a rechargeable version without a major redesign -- which would've been required. The whole upper shell of the mouse moves down when you click, which means putting a port on the front wasn't going to work.
But, again: it's 100% a non-issue for me. I don't actually know anyone in real life who has trouble with this.
The touchpad started to drift and the clicking mechanism started to go wonky.
In short, I think the MBP is pretty solid, but if you get a lemon build version, you're stuck with it.