dresdenlyn wrote:
Why must I compensate for other users' ineptness?
You don't.
You don't have to use a Mac -- you chose it yourself. Apple is in business to make money, and it makes money by selling as many of its products as it can, and it does that by tailoring its products to the majority of users in its segment of the market. You're not in that majority. Tough luck. You should be used to being in a small minority -- you're using a Mac.
WHY should anyone be making the kind of mistakes where they are,
as you, fane_j wrote: "have CDs or DVDs popping out of my MBP all the time!"
Because the ⏏ key is right above the ⌫ key. Being not half as good a typist as you are, and an indifferent writer and bad speller to boot, I have to hit ⌫ all too often. And since the MBP keyboard doesn't hold a leftover of a stub of a candle (let alone a candle) to my beloved Apple Extended Keyboard… well, you can figure out the rest.
Other professionals that I know ARE complaining,
but just not spending their time
Have you heard of the squeaky wheel?
I paid $3,000.00 for a PROFESSIONAL LEVEL machine
I'm sorry, but I don't think that the MBP is a professional level anything. It's a better-than-average (arguably) portable computer, and that's about it.
My previous Macs did not do this, .... fairly new feature.
Yep. Maybe 2007, 2008, something like that. Would you like me to list all the new features in Snow Leopard (2009) that I positively hate and despise, but can't do anything about because everybody else seems to think they're great?
they should create OPTIONS
"Just make it a preference", right? Imagine what Mac OS X would look like if it had an option for every function some user might like to change.