[kowen]

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, naturally, but I was a very vocal Linux user until I got my first macbook and didn't have to google X-server error messages every time I did an upgrade. Getting various flavors of linux working was always exciting... and challenging and sometimes extremely frustrating. I think I never got the video card working properly on my last laptop.

So what I like about the Mac is OS X and all the handy *nix based tools that are still available to me, all packaged in a nice and slick package where stuff just works.

[dmn]

Point well taken, I will admit a lot of been looking at it through my cheap college lifestyle goggles.