Since switching over to Macintosh computers completely over a year ago, I’ve noticed quite a few bugs in released products. Some have been more serious than others, but they’re always frustrating! Here are just a few that have bothered me for quite a while:
- Nested soft RAID in Disk Utility is glitchy (I’m definitely an edge case here–doubt there are many others running RAID 1+0 on their Macs)
- Using my Nokia cell phone as a Bluetooth modem is intermittent, at best (since Leopard was released)
- Leopard’s Activity Monitor doesn’t show “nice” processes, and the scheduler is wonky (also since Leopard was released)
- iChat connectivity problems while using a wireless connection (AKA “Airport”)
What’s frustrating is that these bugs have been around for so long, unaddressed. The overall polish of OS X is wonderful, and it’s really nice to have Unix at the guts, so I can dive just as deep as I like… I just wish they’d fix these issues. Here’s hoping that Snow Leopard will actually fix some of this stuff!