Heh. The only thing that bugs me about the Mac is the Apple fan culture - it feels like 90% of Mac users feel the need to browbeat everyone into joining the cult.
I have an couple of iMacs, but I wouldn't consider them a panacea. They're a great general purpose desktop, but the problems start crawling in too often.
Need to connect to a Contivity VPN? Bwa, ha, not likely without some very serious expenditure. Apple's Java seems deliberately crippled and broken, and this is a killer when you need certain Java applications to be functional to get work done. The X implementation is less than stellar. The platform cuts you out of a lot of cheap USB toys (TV tuners, USB audio, blah) that would irritate some. The terminal is wierd and requires a lot of configuration to behave in a manner similar to an xterm (and still doesn't support some xterm features).
Still, it makes a great general purpose desktop. It makes an even better generic "home" desktop, and most of the annoyances I have with MacOS stem from being a UNIX bigot rather than someone looking for general desktop. But that's okay; I have a Sun desktop and my Sunray thin clients - I use the Mac for most things and Solaris for anything UNIX-themed.
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I have an couple of iMacs, but I wouldn't consider them a panacea. They're a great general purpose desktop, but the problems start crawling in too often.
Need to connect to a Contivity VPN? Bwa, ha, not likely without some very serious expenditure. Apple's Java seems deliberately crippled and broken, and this is a killer when you need certain Java applications to be functional to get work done. The X implementation is less than stellar. The platform cuts you out of a lot of cheap USB toys (TV tuners, USB audio, blah) that would irritate some. The terminal is wierd and requires a lot of configuration to behave in a manner similar to an xterm (and still doesn't support some xterm features).
Still, it makes a great general purpose desktop. It makes an even better generic "home" desktop, and most of the annoyances I have with MacOS stem from being a UNIX bigot rather than someone looking for general desktop. But that's okay; I have a Sun desktop and my Sunray thin clients - I use the Mac for most things and Solaris for anything UNIX-themed.