OK, I agree. But what about us, poor folks who use Apple products merely to have decent Rails environment, TextMate and OmniGraffle? who don't want to spend age

OK, I agree. But what about us, poor folks who use Apple products merely to have decent Rails environment, TextMate and OmniGraffle? who don't want to spend ages dealing with Linux packages or configuring wifi (though, spent few years using Gentoo, Debian and others)? I worry we have no choice.