[dennisw]

OK a Mac can stream six videos at once. This particular power and ability ....What practical tasks can it do better?

[SlowBoat407]

The biggest application of this particular feature is in video editing, specifically, editing multiple streams down into one in real time, just like switching a live show.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"What practical tasks can it do better?"

How about this: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/01/30/folder-actions-for-os-x-explained-with-real-world-examples/ Very cool and useful.

[Crusher138]

As I am typing this, I am running Windows XP, SP3. Currently running Internet Explorer (8 I think), my credit card terminal software, Outlook 2007, Blackberry Desktop Manager, Excel 2007, QuickBook Premier 2008, and ESP Online. AVG Antivirus is running in the background. They are all running fast and I can switch between them with zero delay.

I should also point out that these are running in a Fusion Virtual Machine on my Mac Pro (circa 2007). I can run WinXP in a window, or full screen, or in “unity” mode where the programs run in individual windows, just like under Windows, but on the OSX desktop. My OSX session is currently running Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Professional, ITunes, and Firefox. I can, with a keystroke, jump to any of these programs running on their own desktop instantly. NO DELAY. I can drag and drop files from one desktop to another AND from one operating system to another.

The Mac has NEVER crashed (although my Windows session has frozen up a couple of times) in over two years.

I was a PC person for 23 years before switching to Mac. Before they were too expensive and too limiting. Now I can do anything a PC can do AND anything a Mac can do. Oh, and I also run Ubuntu Linux every once in a while.

Macs are just far superior machines.

[Swordmaker]

OK a Mac can stream six videos at once. This particular power and ability ....What practical tasks can it do better?

Any other application that requires high speed manipulation of large data streams...