Quoting Camman

Guess that makes sense, but I didn't say people were clamoring for Mac OSX, I was saying that people are not "clamoring" for Apple hardware and I was under the impression that it was supposedly the operating system that "set it apart".

Now I guess my question is what is that you do on your Mac that you've "cut the cord" just out of curiosity, because I know you have a G5 at your office right, so what else do you run on it besides basic office apps like word processing, spreadsheets, etc. that makes the switch from Windows to OSX so worth it. I'm not trying to start a pointless PC vs. Mac debate, I'm honestly just curious as the few people I know who have 'switched' don't know really why it's so great other than they had an iPod or saw an Apple ad or something like that..

Your "curiousity" tends to be pretty confrontational sometimes

But I'll bite....

I don't run spreadsheets, and I rarely (maybe once a month) use OpenOffice write to type a document.

I use my mac primarily for unix administration. I manage all of our servers from the office, and the native unix underpinnings of mac os x make things just slightly more efficient than doing the same work at home, on windows, using putty.

For example, we've been recently migrating dozens of clients to a new (more powerful) server at the datacenter. I will totally make a blind average here and just say, for discussion's sake, that I can migrate 1 client in 10 minutes on my mac, while it takes 15 minutes or so on windows. Simple things like being able to use the native terminal to wget and tar/gzip files, move them around via command line, etc. whereas on windows I have to use graphical tools like CuteFTP and multiple putty windows. It's just more efficient. I can't explain it any better than that.

Secondly, the mac is just way prettier. Call me a wuss or whatever, but I love eye candy, and I love OS X because it is just a really sweet looking OS.

I use Adobe Indesign and Adobe photoshop at work. Indesign, I use pretty regularly. I prefer using indesign on a mac. There are just very slight differences, mostly in keyboard shortcuts, that I just prefer on the mac.

That's another thing. At home, i find myself wishing I had certain keyboard shortcuts that I use constantly on the mac. All in the name of slight increases in efficiency.

If I could run OS X on pc hardware, I'd be all over that ****. I could give a crap about the mac hardware. I actually don't like it that much, although I haven't used the new intel hardware yet.

On a side note, I've never seen an apple ad in my entire life, except for the one "ellen" switch ad on the internet, cause that was some funny ****. So the reason I switched was not because of that.

I detailed my reasons for switching in another thread, but to summarize—it was so I could become an expert at Mac OS X administration because I support several clients who use macs all the time, and I want to give them service equal to what I give my windows clients.