Posting without reading:

I'm gonna attempt to defend my status without comming off as a fanboy:

I've always had a fascination with apple, I first used them in Kindergarden, when the preforma series were king, and the first introdouction of powerPC chip.

I wanted one for awhile, but parents never would get one.

Finally last year I got one, and it changed the way I compute. I use windows machines on a daily basis. It is really tough to explain, but OS X just makes you change how you interact with the machine, it is turely an artist's canvis, flowing how the mind does...I guess it works logically. And I feel the apple fanboys are the people that have discovered this (stereotyped as the creative art-sey type) and it has let them run wild with ideas, not being held back by an operating system not allowing them to do what they fell like it should do.

On that note maybe the apple platform isn't for everyone, but having had mine for under a year, But as said above I use windows machines on a daily basis, and have a dual processor machine (dual 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, raid0 hdd, windows xp) that I run all the "creative apps" (photoshop, aftereffects, captureONE, bibble, etc) on and as horrible as this sounds I prefer running them on my Powerbook (1.5ghz PowerPC G4, 1.25gb ram, 80gb notebook drive, OS .) I think this comes back to the creative flow/canvas thing. As this year with the help of the Powerbook I have won at least 5 first place awards (various contests locally/regionally.) And have had people at school be mad becuase they see how I work on my Mac, and they are stuck using a PC (of better hardware spec much less).

I hope that what I wrote makes sense, it's late, and I've had a long day. But all I wish is that peope that have never used OS X outside of a retail store to give it a serious try before using it, I have made many "switchers" just from seeing/hearing about mine (Billabond1 included :D.)
And on a totally unbiased (yeah right) viewpoint, I personally think apple hardware is some of the most solidy built hardware out there, I beat the Crape out of mine, and has NEVER given me any problems.


edit: read the article, yes, there are lots of apple nuts, but we all aren't like that. But I was trying to convince my parents to drive to NYC this morning.

I'm waiting for a x86 photoshop binary file til I even CONSIDER a macbook

bother than that they rule and I want one, but a camera is first

lol, I saw that yesterday.  Unfortunately, my mac was made before the sms feature was installed in the powerbooks   :sad:  .

Mine was build before that functionality... But hey. Mines Bigger!