It is rather simple to poke fun on operating systems, be it Windows, Linux or OSX. It is also rather simple to poke on hardware in Macs versus PC's. There are

It is rather simple to poke fun on operating systems, be it Windows, Linux or OSX. It is also rather simple to poke on hardware in Macs versus PC's. There are 2 things that makes me want to buy another Lenovo Thinkpad the next time (I am currently on an older X40 thinkpad): Hardware specs and Ubuntu. The hardware specs on a price-comparable Lenovo/Mac makes the Lenovo win. Granted it may have less cache, but it doesn't run hot and have to clock down the CPU (I'll bet this happens on the AIR macbooks). Lenovos have better screen resolution (but OSX has the cool rendering patents). I am amazed by the stability of my current Thinkpad. OSX is not interesting enough for me to warrant the more expensive hardware. Remember, most of my day goes on inside an emacs-session window and Gnome is a fine graphical UI for me. 5 years ago, it would be pain with a PC+Debian or (horrors) windows. But Ubuntu is actually quite hassle-free as an operating system. And if there is a problem (of which I've had none), I know how to dig to the treasure. But - that does not make Mac's to "Glorified Fisher-Price activity centres". I know a lot of people who swear by them and I can easily interact with them on my Linux-box. Interestingly, many of these are amazingly good computer geeks. I guess showing UNIX APIs into OSX made the difference.