| cebrian said: @The real mafoo, I think you generalized a bit there, I think it all comes down to taste, to me OSX takes all the joy out of computing I like knowing that I know the little tricks that make me special, I like being the Tech savvy guy and OSX is oversimplified and takes most features that a pro user would like doing for the sake of "casuals". I have a great understanding of OSX, as I have to use it every day, I still prefer my cheaper, better 17" hp vista laptop every day of the week, and twice on sundays. For the record I use macs for final cut pro, which is a GREAT software that I would recommend anyone, thats about the only thing Macs have that exclusively and I love. |
Wow, there are so many tweaks you can do with OSX. It's a UNIX OS. Vertualy anything you can do on Linux, you can do on OSX, you just are not required too. You can run X11 on it if you like. (I do all the time). Almost every Apple app has command line tweaks that are for the super users. Apple allows you to get stuff done and not use them, but there is so much more if your interested in looking under the hood.
@IllegalPaladin
For those users, I would recommend a Mac Mini. It's $599, and will probably outlast two $350 PC's. Apple only makes one Mac OS (non sever anyway), So you get everything the big Macs have (all the iLife stuff), just with it being a little slower. It's basically a Mac Book in a desktop form. Yea, it’s a little more money, but for the lifetime of the purchase, you are ahead. (less to do with hardware, more to do with OSX being a UNIX OS, and thus as time goes on, upgrades don’t make recent hardware obsolete.)
