Ah, ScorninN:

Your arguements against Windows are pretty dated, bud. If you're going to reference Apple's flagship OSX instead of that POS OS9 that broke everything previously working with each revision (death to carbonlib!), then you have to reference Windows XP on the PC side. XP, when installed on a new out-of-the-box computer, is dead stable and easy to use. Most all of the applications that ran on previous versions of Windows 9X or NT run on XP without having to boot into a different "mode", which OSX cannot say with 95% of the Mac apps. How many everyday apps have been "Carbonized" now, anyway? And are they still painfully slow on anything but the top-of-the-line systems? And how much are those top-of-the-line systems, anyway? Spendy, huh? And the only time they beat a PC is in specially-scripted Photoshop filters. WhooooWheeee.

Sorry, Stormy. While Macs do have their place, that place generally is with people who are obsessed with Pantone colors. If I want a machine to get the everyday work done on a desktop machine at a reasonable price, I'll be running an NT kernel-based OS on a PC. For what you translucent-cased art majors pay for a Mac I can spec out a beauty of a system that'll run that Mac into the ground.

Obligatory fishing content: water clarity is really improving in the Willamette below the falls. Visibility is darned near 3' and the catches are improving daily, especially between Sellwood and Meldrum.