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The issue I've always had with Apple vs. PC is that the PC doesn't take up so much real estate for the OS. Like on a small monitor I have alot more room for my applications to work in then on the Apple. The Apple takes away a good 2 inces from the bottom of my screen that I can't use.
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@Lupison: If you turn hiding on/resize the dock, it'll pretty much be out of your hair. I only have a 13" Macbook, so for home use I bought a larger 20" HP monitor for it and that solved the problem.
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@Lupison: Auto-hide is your friend. Also, set your behaviors right and make sure your Dock isn't set at "Always On Top".
To be honest, I prefer the Dock for some things to the Start Menu and run RocketDock on my PC.
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@OMG! Ponies!: As of 10.5, I like the dock even more because of the Stacks function, which allows some quasi Star Menu list views. Shoving the Applications and Documents folder into the stack bar makes it a lot more useful.
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@Lupison: i put the dock on the left, and turn on auto hide.
Same on my Windows machine (at work) the taskbar is always 2 rows, and also set to autohide cuz it does take 2 inchs also!! Reply
Same on my Windows machine (at work) the taskbar is always 2 rows, and also set to autohide cuz it does take 2 inchs also!! Reply
@Kaiser-Machead: Thank you for proving his point...in your rebuttal, you changed a default setting and bought additional hardware to solve a problem that he doesn't have.
*sigh*
With Mac supporters like this, who needs PC ads?
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@Lupison: You're kidding, right? You know that you can change the size of the dock and/or hide it entirely, right?
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@Ginsu: Firstly, my particular example problem was not simply the dock, but the dimensions of the display itself to do any kind of imaging work. If I'm going to do Photoshop or anything else that needs a great deal of room, a 13" display is inadequate, however I didn't feel like spending the money on a $2k laptop when I can just get a larger external display and save a few hundred dollars. There are some advantages to the Dock, at least for me, as well as its caveats (in hide mode on, there's no way to tell what app is running unless you keep popping the dock out, which I find to be a clear design oversight, though there are other ways to check, but are still not apparent ).
Secondly, this is just a helpful tip to those who have issue with the default setting. Does everyone keep the default settings of Windows? Is Quicklaunch on by default? Of all the systems I've used, that was usually not the case, though is helpful to keep my desktop clear and not have to launch the Star menu. I change settings on all of my systems to suit me individually. I'm sure most people who do more extensive work/play on their computers do likewise. My example, in which I purchased extra hardware, was to solve more than one problem. if I didn't need more than 13", simply hiding the dock would've let me use almost all of that space.
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