Re:MacOSX = iCrap (Score 1)

Sorry but bash shell is there as well as mySQL. Same for perl, vim, vi, python, dylan, fortran, C, C++, Java, tktcl, tcsh, csh, sh, emacs, nedit, gimp, AFS, NFS, CVS, etc. etc. etc. and the rest of Unix and OpenSource Linux world, GNU software and GNOME. Sounds like enough for you? Too long a list of what is available with OS X. It would take weeks to write it down and then it will be obsolete: packages from Linux/Unix, GNU, OpenSoftware are popping out on a daily basis. Oh, not to mention XWindows running rootless side by side with OS X applications: say emacs and BBEdit opened on the same screen. To have a peek at Unix/Linux applications running on OS X go to www.sourceforge.net. Something that never appeared on Linux? A decend package installer/deinstaller with dependencies checking? Go look at Fink: fink.sourceforge.net Final comment: in our group we do scientific software, mostly in Java and C++. Our 10 people group was all on Wintel machines till December. Now is 50% - 50%: OS X and the new Ti PB 667 MHz made us to switch (after due testing of what it could offer us). Work integration with Linux and Unix platforms is absolutely perfect and transparent with those PBs. Not so with the old (note: 1 year old) PCs we were using (and additional emulators to get into Unix clusters and WORK!) I will not be surprised if within a year it will be again 100% on the group: the other 5 colleagues who have not switched (yet!) are now pretty much reconsidering their positions weighting out all differences. XP? Our entire Lab will not move to it because of security reasons.