I've been saying this about OS X for a long time. Apple is more mainstream than it used to be, but earlier in OS X's life, I saw the A and C groups that you spe

I've been saying this about OS X for a long time. Apple is more mainstream than it used to be, but earlier in OS X's life, I saw the A and C groups that you speak of. For a long while, OS X was a platform for grandmas and hackers. I was an early PowerBook purchaser, because it immediately removed the need to dual boot for my job. I could run all my formerly NetBSD-hosted network sleuthing software and open the Word docs people sent (bonus: auto crossover Ethernet port meant never hunting for crossover cable). By contrast, Windows had the power-user segment locked up. For a long while, it seemed that there were little utilities traded around forums to do all manner of things that I'd simply open a console to do on a *nix system. As a result, I always felt really unproficient on Windows systems, because I ended up trawling the webbernets for unfamiliar tools that had obnoxiously specific use cases.