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I prefer Microsoft Office on the Mac to Office on the PC with respect to look at feel. You can run Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and some other Microsoft software on the Mac, as well. I've only run into one obscure and minor incompatability between Office on the Mac and PC (I was doing some diagrams for work and doing diagrams in Canvas and copying them over as EPS images into Office -- the end-of-line characters didn't translate and had to be manually adjusted when I moved the file over to Windows). Otherwise, it's great.

As for software, remember that as a Unix-based OS, OSX can also run quite a bit of software ported over from the Linux and Unix world. If you're halfway decent at reading compiler error messages and writing C, you can probably port some stuff that hasn't been officially ported, too. I have.

[shellshocked]

I didn't think of that aspect, of running UNIX programs on the Mac. I don't know anyoff the top of my head, but that is interesting. I've written some UNIX apps on the corporate side. I'm a little rusty, but that might just be some fun.

I also look at the Mac as a great product, just under supported by the industry on whole. Simply economics and critical mass issues, but, maybe I might look at doing some Mac products.