[Swordmaker]

It's as much of a pain in the ass to use as anything anyway. I have yet to meet a serious network manager who uses a Mac in his daily work. It's Linux or some variant of Unix.

I guess you are not aware that Macintosh OS X IS Unix?

[Benrand]

Uh oh, a Mac geek comes out to defend his uni-button OS from the raving hordes of network people who like to make machines from parts and slap Unix-type OSes on them.

Sorry, can't make those cheap Shuttle PCs run OSX very easily...they like kernels that work with Intel cpus.

As I said, I have yet to meet a network person who will request that a Mac be used for *anything* WRT monitoring/maintaining/manipulating a large network. It doesn't matter if it is derived from Unix or whatever.