I read this and thought of all the Macophiles that hang out here. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/bofh_episode_33/ Stuart.
"They're just not real computers," the PFY says. "They're the piano accordion of the computing world, entertaining, but not made for professionals." "Our Graphics people..." "Yeah, but they're not professionals. They'd be just as happy with crayons and finger paints!" lmao!
Man, as much as I agree about Apple's previous OS, as I have done some administration of OS8 and 9 and they were total headaches, OSX is just a cut above. So much better than Vista, and I'm even finding I like it better than I did XP the last 5 years. Now, keep in mind I got my MacBook Pro for free*, and I would NEVER pay the premium they demand over a PC system with similar specs. But Apple has their crap together for OSX, its Unix kernel is geek heaven. I work on SunOS Solaris servers here at work, and having the same OS commands available to me that are on my servers is a great learning experience. You can really get under the hood and tweak in OSX, and I love that. No elitism here! I still use 3 XP machines and 1 Vista machine at work, and a Vista box at home. I just love that OSX doesn't have all the bloat that Windows is drifting more and more towards.
^^ That pretty much sums up my feelings too. I love what they've done with the OS, but it's really hard to justify buying a Mac. I'm ultimately paying a premium for their hardware and not have as many choices in hardware and software that I could run on it. Vista is pretty, but it's big and bloated. I upgraded my home machine to 4 GB just to have things run more smoothly under Vista.
