In reply to Chris about Spotlight: You don't have to scroll down and press enter on your common Spotlight searches. To do it all totally keyboard: Command + Space opens spotlight .. type iTunes .. Command + Enter launches the top hit (which will always be right if it's a common one.) Even better (but a tricky subtlety if you don't understand it), if you cursor down to something then Command + Enter, you'll open it's containing folder.

I launch stuff this way all the time. I never use the evil dock.

So, my gripes: #1 is obviously the Dock. Evil. Hate it. It wastes far too much screen real-estate, and when it's hidden it's too difficult to use, but still consumes a whole side of your screen for much accidental revealing comedy. :| I'd love to be able to half-hide the damn thing. I could recognise all the icons from only their top half. Maybe even 2/3 hide it. In the mean time I can just use Dragthing and use Tinker Tool to hide the dock at the top of the screen.

2 is the Finder. Yes, someone making the big decisions is really holding this baby back. Why isn't it more stable? Sure, it doesn't often crash/relaunch, but it does it far more than my WinXP box. Why doesn't it translate to foreign filesystem naming conventions better? What's with that damn column view? (hate it) Why doesn't it flush it's cache to USB drives at least periodically? (I saved that file 15 minutes ago ..why should I lose it all when the keyboard got yanked out?)

3 two buttons and and a goddamn scroll-wheel! Is that so tricky to do? Have you not seen the massive size of the single button on those laptops? It's just begging to be split in two ..context menu's are important in OS-X. The two-finger scroll-wheeling on the trackpads is genius, so what about the real mice on desktops? I love the apple mouse, but I'm getting wrist strain pointing at scroll-bars/arrows all the time. Every Mac we get we end up putting a Microsoft mouse on. Surely I'm not the only one who feels wrong about that. (And yes, I've tried the Mighty Mouse .. bought one for my Mac Mini .. the nipple is just too small for accurate scroll-wheeling, and my secondary clicks occasionally get called as primary clicks coz I was resting fingers too hard on the LHS of the mouse .. often the resulting action was bad .. I just had to give it up.)