Not to get into OS wars or anything, but does OSX have arbitrary selection of files via keyboard (like Windows's Ctrl+arrows and Ctrl+space) yet? They love to put in fancy new features, but they seem to overlook or skimp on a lot of basic groundwork stuff...
Lion at least has the ability to hold down the option key (alt) and select things with the arrow keys. I am not sure what ctrl-space does under Windows, but you can do at least that much with Mac OS. You can also cherry pick selected icons using option-click. That has been around since MacOS Classic
