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Macs are high-end machines and come with a sane OS on them, with support from the manufacturer.

The last two issues together: sane OS, manufacturer support, basically knock out the rest of the market.

A sane OS would let me delete a file with the delete key(!).

You use the command key to issue commands and raw keys to type. So: command-delete means it's fast and easy to delete a file without the worry of accidentally losing a file when your cat jumps on the keyboard.

Maybe the OS can put a cork on the end of my fork so I don't accidentally stab myself while I'm eating.

I'm just kidding, it's a superficial annoyance.

I should have the option though, and what's the purpose of a "recycle bin" if not for feline file administration?

> I should have the option though

No. This is what good software design is. The designer chose this path, offering you the option to change this is what makes software bloated and unmaintainable.

I think everyone has stockholm syndrome with regard to OS GUIs. Windows and OSX are both pretty awful when it comes to consistent and logical design cues.

No options in software, gotcha.

Not too many at any rate. If a minor detail like the key to delete files is an option pretty much everything else has to be an option.

Options should only be there as a last resort, not in any other case.

'Enter' to rename is pretty insane also

As if F2 is any saner.

It does. You just have to add the Command key.

Command-Shift-Delete empties the trash, finalizing the action.

Add Option to the mix, and it won't ask you to confirm the action.

Mac support is known to be one of the worst. Linux and Windows are also sane OSs. And there are a lot of high-end machines on the market. So I disagree with you.

All Apple owners I ever met were showing off. For them it's status to have a Mac. They think that when they have a Mac they belong to the group. Or they think they need to have a Mac because they are designers/hackers.

This feeling of belonging to a group knocks out the rest of the market.

I'm not saying Apples are crap. But to me they are not better than lets say a nice Lenovo Thinkpad installed with Ubuntu. In the end of the day it's just a tool to get the job done.

(Why do all iPhone owners put there phone on the table while having a meeting? Just turn the thing off and put it in your wallet!)

Apple support frequently leads the industry by a wide margin in consumer surveys. Apple Care is expensive, but it's fantastic when you need it - I've never had a less than 5 star experience.

"Readers awarded AppleCare a score of 86 points, dwarfing the competition; Lenovo/IBM came in second place with just 61 points."

http://www.macworld.com/article/160089/2011/05/apple_laptops...

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