Sorry, Roee, but that's a load of crap. There's a ton of bias and falacious thinking going on here.<p>Right off the bat, you wear your bias on your sleeve.<p>> So at the risk of letting my soul get sucked into the fanboi dark side, I bought the cheapest MacBook Pro and started working with it as my main machine.<p>So if you buy a Mac, there's some kind of inherent risk that you'll become a "fanboi"?<p>> What’s so amazing about this story is that when people are confronted with a problem in an Apple product, in most cases they assume it’s the user’s fault.<p>I've done my time in the trenches of end-user support. There's a reason that most people capable of solving computer problems start with the user; because it's most frequently the user. This is true of Macs, PCs, phones, microwaves, VCRs, you name it. You always start by verifying that the user isn't doing something unexpected. That is a problem to be solved in and of itself, but it's not unique to Mac culture.<p>> I hear many people criticizing Android’s responsiveness etc, but no one criticizing iPhone 3GS’s horrible sluggishness since iOS 4.0.<p>I cannot think of a worse example. The 3GS was introduced in 2009. When people criticize Android's responsiveness, those complaints are levied against brand new devices.<p>Roee, I can tell you exactly why your brand new MacBook Pro was screaming like a jet fighter, and it's not your fault. OS X has a few background processes that can eat up your CPU cycles causing high load and therefore high fan speeds. The primary culprit is Spotlight. There are a set of Spotlight indexing processes (mds, I'm looking at you) that will push the CPU at 100% for extended periods.<p>IMO, Apple could do a few things to remedy this:<p>* Throttle the Spotlight indexing service (and other background-only services) based on CPU temperature. Apple controls the entire hardware/software stack, so they can consistently rely on this information. It sounds silly, but when I make large changes to my filesystem, I see the same issue, and it can be really annoying to listen to my MBP whir loudly on my desk. Other users find it downright concerning.<p>* Provide an "Advanced Options" button in the Spotlight preferences where we can use a slider control balance the speed of updates and CPU usage. This slider should start out somewhere lower than "update Spotlight at all costs, even if the system load is at 3.99".<p>* Update Activity Monitor to include a more user friendly view of what's using the most system resources by CPU, memory, and disk activity. The process list is great for geeks, but my mom has no idea what launchd, SystemUIServer or mds are. Disk activity has no transparency beyond ops per second and throughput. There is no user facing method of determining what application is making orders of magnitude more file system requests than anything else on the system.<p>If Apple did any of the above, they'd be doing 10x more than anyone else in the industry. Hell, Soluto is in the business of providing exactly this kind of information. Roee, how about you look in to providing these kinds of details through Soluto for Mac? I'd recommend you to everyone inside my network.