[danford]

>something that works, every day.

>the experience of running OS X on Apple hardware is simply unmatched.

Eh. Seems a lot of people on HN believe this, but it's not always the case. Just a quick visit to discussion.apple.com will show all sorts of issues people have with the OS including bugs like http://www.cnet.com/news/some-lion-users-plagued-by-black-sc... which is a bug in the OS.

Edit: just some things I noticed in the short time I used OS X: The gmail integration is buggy. I didn't get messages on time, and I have to either quit the app or take Mail offline and then online again before new mail will start streaming in. Sometime I couldn't get it to quit.

The 'quicklook' thing seemed really slow, which seemed to be a problem a lot of users had.

Multi-monitor support isn't that great. I had multiple windows on multiple desktops for some reason and it just felt weird.

I had issues with audio stopping and not working again until I did a reboot.

In some apps scrolling was really rough.

[calciphus]

Window management in OSX is easily my biggest complaint. Installing Spectacle (open source) at least gave me back the Windows shortcuts for half screen, full-screen, and next monitor. The full screen width menu system drives me nuts, as with a 27" monitor I have to go 3ft to the left to find whatever non-keystroked command I need. It feels at least 15 years behind to me, especially given their fondness for those big cinema displays.

Apple seems to think I should unitask on a single monitor. That's not how I work, so it's not for me.