A Rant about Technology: PCs and Macs

Okay, I enjoy having a computer. Be it a PC or a Mac, I enjoy computers. And having owned both a Mac and a PC, I feel like there are some things I need to just get off my chest. And they're both laptops, just so you know.

Okay, first victim: the Mac. I love Macs personally, but I need to get some things off my chest right now. One, the battery. My Mac was old to begin with when I got it, but the battery lasted pretty well for being 5 years old. But after I had it for a while, and for a year or two until its death, the battery would only last a half hour at the most on a full charge. Two: iPod compatibility. I have an iPod, and since all my music was on my Mac's hard drive when it gave out from old age (that's what I meant by death), I can't get music off of my PC to my iPod without deleting all my music from it that I had beforehand. And so, I don't like how when you format an iPod on a PC, you can get music off of both Macs and PCs, but when you do it on a Mac, it can only work on a Mac. Finally, the constant verification when you try to fix stuff in System Preferences. I don't like having to remember my password constantly when I'm just trying to change the time on my computer. I want to change the time or adjust the sound output, not have to remember my passwords then remember what time it is or what kind of output I should have on it.

Next is the PC. I also like the PC, but I need to rant on them as well. First, the touch pad's proximity to the keyboard. I don't like how it's so close to the side of my hand when I'm typing. I've had pages of stuff deleted because my hand tapped the touch pad while typing, or while on the Internet, it either causes a new tab to open up on me or it causes my page to reload. Second, the constant updates. I hate having to wait for my computer to shut down and start up while it installs updates. And one day, I had to reinstall the virus scan system because it couldn't update itself. Finally, the touch pad itself. Having owned a Mac before a PC, I am not used to the double tap click system on the touch pad or whatever it's called. It gets frustrating when I am playing an online game that requires cursor movement, and sometimes I have to tap the touch pad several times before it becomes responsive again. I also have had to click several times on the screen to get out of the touch pad tap click.