This whole post is misleading

This is poorly researched fantasy. While Vista’s new promised FS hasn’t materialized, it’s not like NTFS isn’t better in many respects than Apple’s HFS+ anyway, as NTFS allows for larger files and filesystem level encryption. HFS+ does have some metadata advangates.

Much better video and graphics. The Mac OS and Mac machines have been recognized for years as trouncing Windows PCs in these areas, but I don’t see this as just a hardware or operating system issue anymore. That’s especially true now that Apple uses Intel processors. It’s the applications I can use on the Mac that have become more robust than their Windows counterparts. Even iMovie is more robust than Windows video editing applications that cost hundreds of dollars.

You are selectively picking and choosing amongst applications to make your point. Regardless, you are trying to make an application issue a system issue, and ur has nothing to do with it. I think it much more important to note that only the highest margin of Apple’s product line offers great video hardware puts it at an objective dissadvantage.

True plug-and-play. Mac users, when was the last time you tried to plug any peripheral in and ran into problems? Even after years of Microsoft’s plug-and-play initiatives, I still run into nasty driver issues and incompatibilities. I think the key here is that Apple keeps compatibility simpler for developers and hardware manufacturers.

This being a problem with windows is VASTLY overstated. It’s mostly limited to low-end poorly supported devices and peripherals and is not the fault of Windows. Try this? pick some random peripheral off the shelf at your local computer store and plug it into your mac. A lot of the time it’s just not going to work because of the absense of drivers.

More reliability. Macs are more reliable than PCs for several reasons. The operating system is far less prone to crashing. Support is head-and-shoulders above what you get with a PC. And because the user base is smaller than Windows’, Macs and Mac applications are less of a target for hackers.

The Operating system is not far less prone to crashing. Both are solid provided they don’t have a crappy driver messing up Kernel space. While you’ll see this more often on Windows given the vast amount of devices available, this makes it a platform issue that can be avoided, not an inherent operating system issue.

Support depends on who you buy from.

Security by obscurity really isn’t security.

It these “come to our side”-lists are geared more and more toward UI-fluff, and features present in pretty much any non-windows OS, and less at features actually unique to Macs/Apple.

Apples merits have, and always will, lie in UI/casing-design, beginner-friendly UI and – for those who have money – the all-in-one principle of hardware and software acquisition. For someone like me, with a very tight budget, enough computer skills to not be intimidated when I don’t have the OS hold my hand every step of the way, and the ability to pretty quickly adapt even exotic UI-designs Apples are just a waste of money.

I aplogoize for the somewhat loaded sentences I use. As I said, I whis this whole OS-evangelism would just stop, but I think we can all agree that this whole thing, and the OS-war in general, are pretty much fueled by Apple users, and some of the more religious *nix users…

BSD is the best operating system. It is faster and better than both Windows and OS X in every possible way. It promotes a healthy coat and teeth, whereas other operating systems clearly cause the deaths of thousands of poor, hungry orphans.

For example, MUCH easier than a [so-called missing] right click is a two-fingered-tap on the MacBook trackpad.

The OSs are basically identical — ANY argument of one over the other is ridiculous and sad.