excellent question.
I cruise the PC threads because I use one at work. I go home to a Mac, however, and I try very hard to stay informed on both. When Longhorn comes out, I will be very interested in its new features.
This week, though, it's Tiger. All Tiger, all the time.
Because some people take their OS preference into the political arena.
Odd that I've never seen a thread that started out bashing Apple. Occasionally someone will post a reference to theoretical security flaws in Macs or in Linux, but most threads like this start out bashing MS.
While there are objective metrics that can be debated they still end up being subjective to the needs of the user.
And I just love all the slames on operating systems. I wonder how many of those making the slams have written one? I have, well, sort of, it's core is "leveraged" '80's Minix and Unix code, couldn't do it all myself and it's about as flaky as anything you've ever seen, wouldn't wish it on anybody else, but it's just a hobby anyway, don't use it for anything serious, that'd be insane of me. Well, maybe just trying is insane but that's another story.
My hat is off to any company that can write an OS that can actually boot the 3 billion permutations of hardware out there.
Because Macs are the better consumer (read: non-business critical user) machines, but these windows bastards (yes, I mean you IT people) keep pushing the only thing they know to little old ladies and noobies.
It's kinda like the car salesman that talks you into a car you can't afford...you don't know you've been screwed until several months later.
Im guessing it has something to do with the fact on every mac post trolls come ind and say thigs like 'year for all ten of them', or 'mac users are gay'... but youre right somehow its a problem with the mac users here..