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I really chuckle at most of the Mac user's when they rant and rave about what a controlling nazi Bill Gates is, and how they will never use his products. While Bill has done many questionable things in the course of his career, the Mac folks apear to have taken it to an extreme with their hardware. I can buy a power supply for my AMD machines just about anywhere, but try and find one for a Mac in my little town, forget about it.

While OS-X maybe a wonderous thing, it is just about all that can be run on a Mac, while my AMD machines can run any number of OS, except of course the OS-X.

Bottom line is that the Mac really limits its user, though they swear otherwise. I suppose one never notices the chains after one becomes used to them.

As a final thought, it is a good thing that the "My comments" section is not functioning well, as I forgot my flame retardent underwear.

Did you know that Apple is giving away the Jaguar OSX to teachers? Someone here please explain it to me. (The only requirements are that the teacher be employed by an educational institution and use it on either a personal Macintosh or one belonging to the employer.)

The thing is, our school district chooses NOT to upgrade to OSX because, in order to use previously purchase software that runs on OS9.x, you have to have BOTH OSX and OS9.x on the computer. Therefore, you sometimes have 2 operating systems running. (Yes, Apple is just a smaller monopoly than MS.)

I can run MSOffice, any Adobe and Macromedia app and the majority of open source UNIX apps. I have the shared source .NET CLI compiled and working just fine on both of my Macs. In fact it's a bit nicer to be using it in OSX. The tools are better than Windows' for people getting started with development like me and the desktop is fully functional. It runs JDK 1.4.1, Mozilla, Office (eventually a native OpenOffice as well) and the few games that matter to me (though I prefer consoles).