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Say I want to put in a second video card in my Mac so that I can have 2 monitors displaying 2 different things at the same time

Macs have been doing that since around 1988. I have dual monitors at home and work, and now find any single mointor system too confining.

you are going to sit there and tell me I can go to the store down the corner pick up a few off the shelf cards, plug em in, get some drivers and boom its going to work?

Not exactly. For starters, any Mac tower made in the last few years already has a dual-head video card, so there's no need to buy anything. If you have an older Mac like mine, you can pick up an ATI or nVidia card (yes, they make Mac versions), plug it in, attach a monitor, and go. There's no "install drivers" step because OS X already includes them.

Yes, they make them, but can you walk into a typical store and find them in stock? You can't talk about corporate enterprise and be talking about everything being special order, or difficult to find. You are taking your MAC to give the presentation of your life... your video card dies... its 6pm, your presentation is at 9am sharp and you are in Hershey PA..... what do you do?

And don't tell me this doesn't happen, as someone who has had to find hardware for systems by various vendors and OS's last minute for "MAKE OR BREAK" situations...

I don't dislike Macintoshes, since they have moved to an UNIX based OS, I think they are on the right path, but they aren't going to ever be enterprise desktop standard...they lost that battle, and they aren't going to make a comeback.