I believe that the Dock is a waste of space too, i've used it over quite a long period of time, but have found it to be eventually Anoying, there certain things that could be implimented into the startmenu that would bring back great apeal, or even if these little changes were added to the quicklanch, it would eradicate the Dock! To be honest, the dock is a useless program for just show, and nothing more!

Thankx just my $0.02.....

Finally, i'm not the only one who thinks that dock sucks because it takes too much screensize and it doesn't display the lables of the programs. Like they said in the review, if you have three word documents opened, then try to see the difference between them. That little thumbnail trick doesn't work.

The windows taskbar is much more handy if you ask me.

Whatever. Personally I love my dock.

You people are retards... What is the problem with the dock taking up any space? Unless you have enough garbage right on your desktop to run out of space, then it shouldn't be a problem....... The dock also doesn't stay on top, so there is no way it could hurt a full size application window. As far as start menu, the dock was never meant to be a start menu, it's meant to speed up things with switching applications without the finder on a MAC, or not having to move any windows to see the trash can on a MAC, or other little things like that ON A MAC... Of course if you are using ObjectDock, which Stardock should go to court and rot for, then you won't like it's Mac "usefullness" in a Windows taskbar environment... As far as it being pretty, YEAH... In case you haven't noticed, Macs are made to be pretty... Woreking with a pretty mac invokes creativity...

I use my OSX Dock every day . It is wonderful . It is really a hoot to see the opinions about this . You either like it and use it or move on . There is no Windows dock that even comes close , imo . Really funny -

Some of that has a point or two, most of it does not. In reality this isn't talking about apple docks, this is talking about docks in general. Apples dock and Object dock work much the same, and pretty much anything they say in that list is the same for both. And on top of that, their #1 reason is utter BS. No one has ever lost a file by pulling it out of the dock, it'll do the same thing OD does. Pull out the program it poofs, easy to add back. If you pull out a running document, say something you're working on in photoshop, if goes right back to the dock.

The person that wrote that article is probably one of the sad idiots that will swear till the day they die nothing is better than OS9, which is the ugliest, ill concieved, hard to navigate OS ever made.

Ok yer, if the dock sucks so much then why do so many companys try and copy it.., idiots.

You know there is always someone thinking somethng sucks no matter what it is. I have been using OSX for a while now and I love the dock. It is much more flexable then people think and if you think it's too large just shrink it and set Maginfy so you can see the icons better if you need to. I hate the cluter of a bunch of shortcuts on the desktop. but that is just me. So on my XP computer I also use Object Dock which is a great app. But whatever, some will like it and some will hate it, just like everything else in life. I just wish people didn't think they need to make such a big deal about it akk! lol

You people are retards... What is the problem with the dock taking up any space? Unless you have enough garbage right on your desktop to run out of space, then it shouldn't be a problem....... The dock also doesn't stay on top, so there is no way it could hurt a full size application window. As far as start menu, the dock was never meant to be a start menu, it's meant to speed up things with switching applications without the finder on a MAC, or not having to move any windows to see the trash can on a MAC, or other little things like that ON A MAC... Of course if you are using ObjectDock, which Stardock should go to court and rot for, then you won't like it's Mac "usefullness" in a Windows taskbar environment... As far as it being pretty, YEAH... In case you haven't noticed, Macs are made to be pretty... Woreking with a pretty mac invokes creativity...

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So just because we dont all like what you like we are retards? You know, people like you should be lined up and shot dude, not everyone likes everythin, like harrison1701 the dock seems uesless in a windows enviroment, we've got a startmenu we can customize, and we can change the icons if we wanted, so just because we arn't like *you* we are retards? Dude, you suck! Maybe all the reason there arnt strictly correct but some are. People have their own opinions of apps dude, try to be friendly about it Next time you type before you think.

I dont know wether you saw or not but he said, You people are Retards, he wasn't calling the person who wrote the article a retard, he called us all a retard, and for that, i said he sucked, and so he does.

Actually the worst thing about macs is the menu bar.

I kind of like the dock, it definitely has a cool element to it. I don't think it is all that conducive to an effective working environment though. For example it really gets in the way at work where I use CAD and Engineering programs and at home my PC is primarily used as a gaming rig. I think it makes a very cool alternative to the quicklaunch feature.

Seems the whole issue is pretty simple, you like it or you don't, you use it or you don't. I can't understand why folks are so attached to any system, progam, etc. that they are willing to demean or belittle someone over it.