Are macs really better then pc's?

[MikeB]

Considering the price is usually much higher than for equivalently specced PCs, the price/performance ratio is actually rather poor. Macs nowadays are more about style, cool looking slim devices often with passive cooling, etc.

MacOS X is much better than previous MacOS releases and I would prefer this OS from a technical perspective if not Windows was better supported and MacOS despite advanced internals is too much geared towards noobs.

I grew up with Amigas which had pre-emptive multi-tasking from the beginning since the mid 80s and I was used to using a mouse with at least 2 buttons, although I used a 3 button optical mouse a couple of years later, so using a one button mouse felt very lacking to me.

In the early 90s Amigas were actually the fastest Macs you could buy, my Amiga could emulate several instances of single tasking 68k MacOS from within AmigaOS and software could run faster than on a real Mac. The MacOS environment felt so limited to me though, but there was much MacOS software available which wasn't available for the Amiga, so being able to emulate the software faster than on a real Mac from within AmigaOS was very welcomed.

I like it that Microsoft is getting more competition. But in reality I am not impressed by either MacOS, Windows nor Linux distros. They are all so inefficient with the hardware resources and from the usage perspective have seen far too few gains compared to where we should stand today IMO. If only Amiga projects, BeOS or even QNX would have gotten the support and resources they deserved...