[ford prefect]

In my experience Mac OS is a nice fast OS, which is easy to use. I will be the first to admit that I hated it when I first started using Apple machines some years ago, but then I have been using windows since 3.11.

People that have only ever used windows seem to think that Windows is the way an OS should be. Personally my favourite OS for work is Fedora Redhat, it looks quite nice and does everything I need it to do, with much less noise and fuss than windows.

I think the point that people often miss is that Macs are designed with more specific funtions in mind than a windows machine. Sure they make good every day office machines, but where macs really come into there own is handling large files like video and audio, or in the more creative aspects of webdesign.

A mac is a tool designed to do specific jobs, whereas windows is there to try and please everybody, which results in a slow (comparatively speaking, often buggy system). Obviously that means they don't suit everyone especially gamers, but then again when I edit video, I wouldn't dream of doing it in Windows.

As I said eariler, the hardware isn't exactly state of the art generally, but then the OS is designed specifically for that hardware, so the OS is inherently more stable than Windows.