You can do the same on a PC. The top of the line PC easily stomps the best Mac. :-) Macs have improved but they still have one key defect. They are made by Apple.
Or on Linux. What you can't do on either is run MacOSX—wich is as superior to Windows XP/Vista, as Windows XP is to Windows 3.1. MacOSX is elegant, powerful and sophisticated. Windows not so much.