OSX is loads better if you know what you're doing (and if you don't you shouldn't be messing with important things anyway).  If you know what you're doing you can use Terminal and many other programs in the utility folder to directly interface with the UNIX kernel.  You can use the root directory, change file structures...you can do just about anything just like Linux.  Yes the normal OS is not as open (but its also much more stable, the trade off), but for power users there is MORE then enough to do.  You can in fact use any Linux program on OSX if you know how to do the permissions and installs correctly, OSX can use any UNIX program just fine with the right approach.  I use a UNIX UPnP media server program to interface with my PS3 for instance and it works great.  The OSX as a closed system thats not easily modified is a myth, that's Vista you're thinking of.

take some computer classes, sounds more like you are having issues brought on by human error. I have been building my own computers since I was 8, like the one I am typing this on, and never had any problems, once I learned what all the parts and systems were and how they interacted. 

If it really bugs you then just buy pre made computers, use them for two years and trade them in for a new one, some companies at least used to have programs like that.

1200p is an absolute joke!  You would need about an 80" TV or larger for your eye to see a difference over 1080p (even that would be minimal).

Movies on my 1080p 46" look just as good as your 19" monitor, and I don't need glasses to see the small screen.

^ Abou the same difference between a 480 and a 720, yet i Still see console fanboys like yourself flaming the Wii for the 480. Irony or just pure idiocy? Also, my 21" probably cost me about 1/10th of what your 46" did, and maybe less. TVs are a waste of money as far as I'm concerned, no good use for them other than playing a console.

I'm stand corrected, 21".  Still tiny.  You can sit at your desk all you want, normal people watch tv, movies etc. and do it sitting in there favorite chair.  If you spent 1/10th on your monitor as I spent on my TV, you have a crappy monitor. 

If you had a larger screen you would know there is a noticable difference in 480p(HD wannabe), 720p(almost there) and 1080p(full HD)

Heh.

Not with a high quality computer monitor.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Play a computer game at 640x480, 1024x768, and 1680x1050 (about the same as 480, 720, and 1080p), and you'll see a HUGE difference, and it doesn't have to be a monitor larger than 21". The native resolution of a 24" monitor is 1920x1200, and you will definitely notice a decrease in quality if you play games in anything less than its native resolution.

You learned something today.

Counter-Strike (1.6) is a good example of this. There's MASSIVE aliasing at the lowest resolution and the hud takes up the most space on screen comared to much less aliasing and the hud taking up much less space at the highest resolution.

you do know both HD consoles have Keyboard and or mouse support right?

Wow I haven't posted on this one yet. Thought I did.

Anyway yeah. Unless its an MMORPG, I hate screwing around with the PC Versions and would rather game them on console. OH an RTS too, FPS depends on the game.

This whole topic feels like It's nintendotogepi's confession that they suck at PC gaming/building/maintenance. I have never seen a console version of a game be better than it's PC counterpart.