Quoting primesuspect

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.