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google Hackentosh.

You will have all the free .iso information you could ever want. With an off-the-shelf Gigabyte motherboard, outfitted with the Intel i5 chipset and memory of your choice, you can make a dual-booting PC/Mac for pretty cheap.

All you have to do is ask - isn’t that better than looking like an ass? I mean, you just sit there babbling non-sense over and over; and you kept getting humiliated over and over. Most people would sit back and say “hmmm, maybe I just don’t know as much as I think I do”. Perhaps you ought to waste 10 minutes of your life and go to an Apple store and waste a salesman’s time and ask some intelligent questions? They are paid hourly - not on commission. They would be glad to educate you, and Apple can afford the time.

Or, if you have the compatible hardware and an old spare harddrive; create a bootable hackentosh partition.

Then, with a hands-on experience; you may begin to understand why folks who know both systems - CHOOSE to use Macs. Are you naive enough to think that Swordmaker and I don’t know a thing or two about Windows? I’ve worked R&D in the computer industry for 25 years, for both Intel and AMD. I’ve done motherboard design, internal register design and debug on 64 bit architecture. I’ve worked for a little known company called Cray Inc; working on massively parallel supercomputers for years; playing with 256 bit machines when the industry was boasting of 32 bits.

At work, I use Windows, like everyone else. At home, I chose to use the Mac - why? Because, when I’m on my own time, I want to sit down and have a stressfree, productive and “get it done” bit of time. My little 4 year old Mac Mini does more than my much more expensive workstation at my office does, it’s more reliable, it’s left on 24/7/365. I sit down, and it’s ready to do whatever I ask it to do.

I have Parallels loaded; so I can run WinXP, Win7 Pro and Win10 at ~97% efficiency of native speed on my Intel i5 chipset; while running OSX (on top of UNIX) - so I can log into my secure network at work and the host of network security that is there - without a hitch.

At work, we exchange Laptops every 2 years because they are junk. Yet, the more expensive Apple laptops just keep going strong. Those “idiots” at NASA use Apple Laptops and would you believe that they don’t have the same problems that the other goverment agencies have? Yeah, NASA engineers are known for being “idiots” aren’t they? We go with, what works for us - and the Macs just work - and keep on working.