[citation][nom]Houndsteeth[/nom]Sometimes, price is only one part of the equation. And for those of you who don't do Apple, more power to you. Roll your own. But God please don't install Windows and expect me to respect you in the morning. Nope. Go find a nice posix distro and install, cause you are still jumping off a bridge like 90% of the world if you are still doing Windows.For myself, I will play on the frankenboxen I make, but if I need to get some serious work done, I will fire up the Apple because I would rather work and get paid than work on my computer before I can work to get paid. I do that kinda stuff on my freetime, but not when someone is paying me on the clock. I have four servers (two Linux, one running MySQL and another with PostgreSQL, one FreeBSD that handles all my SFTP, web and fileserving needs and one Win 2K8 Server that I use as a reference for MS-SQL and Oracle), but my workstation is a Mac Pro loaded to the gills, working in Dreamweaver, Komodo IDE, Adobe Creative Suite and the Xcode development toolbox.I do not own a Prius, or Honda Insight. Nope. I own a Nissan 300Z and a Toyota Sienna. Hell, I'm not even all that green. I recycle when i think about it, I mow my lawn with a gas mower on Sundays just like everyone else. But I use Apple products (Mac Pro, iPhone, iPod, MacBook Pro) on a daily basis, both for work and pleasure. And it has afforded me a comfortable lifestyle.[/citation]
Agreed I only own a hackintosh and that's how i feel about both my other pc's and they both have way better hardware.
I have a Dell d620 laptop( 2 ghz, 2gb ram and a nvidia quadro 64MB) running osx and i use it a lot more then my home built computer (e8400 at 4ghz and 4gb ram and ati 4870) which i use mainly for games. I find my windows box works better when it is there just for games and i don't touch it much. The OSX box is reliable whatever i do on it. I only ran into one bug in the OS and I have a feeling it's just related to the box being a hackintosh. It tends to not want to connected to my wireless 10% of the time if i have the SSID hidden. But again i don't know if it would be a problem if I had a real apple.