Huh? Macs comes preloaded with a bunch of excellent software, including a superior operating system, Internet applications, word processing, graphics software, Quicken, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, QuickTime, utilities, etc. Is there some particular must-have application you know of that Mac users can't get?
For those of us using high-end Intel boxes for entertainment(gaming), the answer is an unfortunate yes.
Sure, consoles are a lot cheaper and have scads of available titles, but I'm more partial to strategy games and realistic flight sims, neither of which seem to be well-supported by the Playstation or the XBox.
Current flight sim titles on my PC: FS2002, IL2, Jane's F/A-18, X-Plane, Jane's WWII Fighters, Rowan's Battle of Britain, Mig Alley, European Air War, B-17II The Mighty Eighth, and Xtreme Air Racing. Of those, I know X-Plane has a Mac counterpart. The rest are, as far as I know, pure Windows apps. I'm aware of the Windows emulators available for OSX, but I have serious doubts that the kind of CPU cycle hungry sims I fly would run smoothly in that environment.
So are those "must-have" apps? Not really. But then again, neither is satellite or cable television, or any TV for that matter. It's just the kind of entertainment I prefer. (I don't own a TV, BTW. Ditched it in 1990 and haven't missed it a bit.) The television analogy, should I ever decide to buy one again,would be something along the lines of a sexy HDTV set with Dolby surround that only received Garrison Keillor and Live From Kennedy Center. Nice hardware, but where's Monday Night Football, Cinemax, Speedvision, and Fox News?
Don't get me wrong - I think that Apple builds some very desirable hardware, with a good OS to match. I'd like to see the kind of gaming support the Mac enjoyed in the early 90s before I'd consider buying a new machine.