Once you throw away much of the ease of installation and maintenance, the consistency, and the stability the Mac OS is not that much more than Unix with... Oh,

Once you throw away much of the ease of installation and maintenance, the consistency, and the stability the Mac OS is not that much more than Unix with... Oh, I don't know anything about Unix, but you might want to keep a few of those if you want to keep up with Ubuntu. You do get access to well-designed, closed-source, Mac-only apps. If I used windows, I'd also get the privilege of paying for lots of well-designed closed-source windows-only apps.