Quoting primesuspect

Your "curiousity" tends to be pretty confrontational sometimes

But I'll bite....

I wasn't trying to bait you, my curiosity which was actual curiosity not confrontation, was based around the fact that everyone I know who uses a Mac is a college student that has a Mac laptop and uses it only for Word processing, web browsing, and email and goes around touting the wonders of Mac and saying how much better it is than Windows XP and it was more of a fad thing for them rather than actual not liking Windows XP. So, I wanted to hear someone who was an actual IT Professional break down why they prefered it or what features would cause them to want to use OSX over XP.

my apologies if you thought I was inferring that you, or all Mac users, were of the type that just wanted an apple computer because they saw some ad or because of the popularity of the ipod, that was not my intention I was saying that I didn't personally know anyone who could be considered competant with computers that used a Mac therfore I didn't have an informed opinion other than "omg Bill gatez sux and my ipod syncs up perfect with my ibook"