When I need a text editor, I hit Apple-SpaceBar, type "tex" and hit enter. That's not grep. 

And no, Windows 7 did not make Apple product obsolete. We have gone around on this over and over... how about I set up a senario, and you then make it better with Windows 7...

Let's say I am a 55 year old woman who has never really used a computer much. My kids have moved to another country, and I now want to keep in touch with them. Let's say this woman has no one she can really talk to about computers, but she knows she wants one.

This woman could walk into an Apple store, and as soon as she walks in, a trained customer service rep will come talk to her with a smile, make her feel invited, and find out what her needs are. They will spend hours if needed talking to her about all the features, and demoing all the applications. Now to browse the web, how to send and receive email, and so forth. They will explain about the free workshops they offer in the store to go over topics if she wants more help.

So let's say she then buys a 21" iMac. She takes it home, plugs in a cable, and she is done. 

Where is she going to get this level of treatment if she wanted a Windows 7 PC? Best Buy? Give me a break. There is no Linux option for this woman.

In that case, Apple is the best option for her. Nothing else comes close. For her, and the millions like her, Apple is anything but a shit company.

Now that's just one option. Another is me, a tech savvy person with 5 computers, 1 running Windows Server 2008, and another running Windows 7, yet I sit here tying this in OSX.

I have used dozens of Linux distro's over the years, and yet I sit here in OSX. Do you think I do that just because I care about image? No. I do it because the things I most want in an OS, OSX does better then any other OS I have used.

It might not for you... you like the scroll down the side of the touchpad. I think that sucks. You most likely like two physical mouse buttons, I like clicking the one with two fingers on the touch pad much better. You like apps closing, I like them not.

Neither of us are wrong. For what you like Windows/Linux is better. For what I like, OSX is better. The difference, is I am not discrediting the OS's that fit you, just because they don't fit me. You on the other hand, are.

Funny, I have to do alt+space and then type in "no" to launch my notepad++.

Also, I dunno how tech savvy you must be if you counted your opening sentence as a positive over a Windows machine considering I do it with the exact same amount of button presses.

That's because Windows 7 ripped off this feature. That's what I said.

Welcome MS to 6 years ago. Good to have you with us. Now catch up with the dozens of other things that make OS X so much better.

Yes, and Apple ripped off grep. So, what's your argument again?

Please do inform me of other amazing features I haven't seen yet that OSX has, because I have anything useful OSX has, plus a whole lot of things that aren't able to run on OSX.

Sigh... Spotlight is not grep. It's hard to argue with the uninformed.

OSX has always had grep, from day one. Read up, and please stop arguing from a position of ignorance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

I've had to use it before, and I know that it has the same functionality. Maybe you just aren't familiar with grep and how it works. Though applications isn't one of its sstrengths unless you know the name of the file.

I stated using Grep in 1992 or 93.. I forget...

Grep does a search though whatever you pipe into it.. a file, a directory, whatever, but it does a search when you run it against the file system. Spotlight indexes everything ahead of time, so it's instant results. Plus, Spotlight is smart. If I use something more times then others, it bubbles to the top. If I put my sisters name in, her contact info is the first result, and 99% of the time, what I want is what it defaults to.

Grep is like search in XP, slow and painful to use. Spotlight is like hitting the Windows key in Windows 7, and typing, although Spotlight is slightly better in its results.