So I was going to put this in the post I plan to follow this one, installing Vista from an image onto a Macbook Pro, but I'm so annoyed about it I figured it deserved its own post. Apple, in their infinite wisdom to make things as easy as possible hasn't had a fucking CD/DVD eject button on a computer in years. Like most things Apple if you live in their world 100% of the time this isn't an issue, you can simply hold down the eject button on the keyboard and you're fine. But these days Apples don't just run OS X anymore. So while trying to install Vista via WinPE I needed to eject the disk to put in the DVD I created with the Vista image on it (since WinPE doesn't have network drivers for the Macbook Pro). Well I'm screwed, there is no way at all to manually eject the disk. I even started to take the damn thing apart to find the button but it's so sealed up that I was sure to fail (or damage something).

Yes I know what I'm doing it non-standard and I think that's the problem with Apple. If you do what they expect, what they want of you things will generally work great. It's when you get outside of their rather small box that things go wrong. For a company that markets itself to people that live outside the box they need to get a bit more flexible I think. Remember, step 2 is opening the box!