To be honest, I didn't like OSX when it first came out and, despite my best efforts, could not force myself to like it when I gave it another chance a couple ye

To be honest, I didn't like OSX when it first came out and, despite my best efforts, could not force myself to like it when I gave it another chance a couple years ago. It's an OS that demands the user to conform to it's way of doing things rather than conforming to the users way of doing things. That's fine for some people, but not me. I like the feel of Apple's hardware and find their prices very reasonable, but they're simply not built to last. This is a tragic and fatal flaw for what would otherwise be great hardware for running another OS on. The only thing Apple truly has going for it is branding. Mac's are freakin' fashion accessories these days. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer can duplicate Apple's marketing genius, but I think we can already see Apple's trendiness fading. A big part of what built Apple's brand up over the last decade was being the plucky underdog fighting the MS man. Now Apple is "the man". Samsung's Apple-bashing ads might be heavy-handed, but they're almost identical to the ads Apple used to run against MS.