Re:if only apple was x86 (Score 1)

I don't think that thats what the people who say Mac s just work are trying to describe. I myself was once a Linux bigot who really took pride in making shit work. It was a challange and I still enjoy the challange. However, due to life with kids and trying to depart from being at my computer all but a few hours a day I am going to buy a Mac. I still cringe at the costs, but if I buy a new mac I get iMovie and iDVD. Yes, even getting a firewire DV cam to work on Linux is trivial. Compile kernel, rinse repeat. I will even say that Kino has amazed me with the progress it has made in the last 6 months. Its a little to buggy, but it does work. Making nice looking DVDs sucks. Sure writing DVDs is easy, but it is a very trial and error process when you get into making complex menus. Not to say that it won't get better, but wow the things I see people do with a G5 or a powerbook. It does look slick, but the whole system acts just as that... a system. Its all fluid from app to app and everything runs great. I like eye candy; I'm an Enlightenment user and E .17 looks killer. By the time E .17 is done the MOL project will be far enough along that I can run all my swanky Mac apps at full speed in a window on my new Powerbook or I may even be able to run E with the X11 system built into Mac OSX. It just seems to me the buying a Mac gives me more flexibility in the end and I won't be buying a new system anytime soon, and if I do the machine WILL be worth something. I have a few old Macs (233mhz iMac, 266mhz Wallstreet Powerbook) that have been sitting in the basement for 2 years and still are worth 200 and 350 dollars respectivly. Games are one thing that kinda bug me, but since I only run Linux I will find every openGL based game on Linux available on Mac. AppleScript for gui stuff also looks interesting. Linux is great in my Tivo and the thousands of servers I run at work, but as a desktop OS today OSX offers a better all around system and even still I will have hardware that is fairly rock solid. Just don't buy the first revision as *ANY* manufacturing process usually sucks on the first rev be it cars or computers. I wish all of the Linux folk would calm down about people wanting to switch. If you just need IRC, a terminal, and office apps Linux is fine and thats why businesses are switching. I am amazed that people will sit around and cheer for Linux on the desktop in the office. Don't people know that pushing out Linux means limiting what people can do? Most businesses just install Windows... That means people have games no matter how lame they are. Same Gnome is a great time killer, but do you think the wave of cheap linux Pcs and LTSP clients will have all of those apps? No way. What I want is an OS where the things that I need work without me saying it will be better next month.