What makes a 20min job take over an hour?

Mac OSX.....
Simple job to do this morning before work.
Quick job as well.
I was wrong.
I go to uni to take all th data off the DV cam for a uni assingment, which is cool, it downloads sucsessfully, and goes onto the large scratch disk (macintosh word for hard drive....) Then i go, well i need to burn this onto a dvd, simple enough process on a pc, i mean u load up nero, (which incidently i found out why the nero program is called nero and why the logo i a burning colesum)(maybe ill tell u later) and then burn your data, simple enough process,
Multiply that with Mac OSX, and u have a recipe for boredom and painfull memories of lost time and space.
Heres the process for copying something onto a dvd on a Mac.
Drag data from folder onto DVD.
Wait a VERY long time for the data to be "copied" to the dvd.
Hit the burn dvd button.
Wait for another eaqualy long time while it "burns"
THEN WAIT as it does it again, still "burning"
WTF
anyway,
a 1.5gig file, takes about 3-4mins to copy to the dvd, then 6-9 mins to "Burn" it, then another 6-9mins of "burning"
what a fucking joke, lets not even TALK about the 4.5gig dvd i had to burn.....
Fuck i could of made a dvd burner out of chicken wire and a dildo (its never your dildo, its always "a dildo", you must never assign ownership to the passenger) and made my own dvd's out of papere and glue....
Anyway a small simple job that should of been done by 7am, got finished at 8:10.
What a fucking joke!