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by unalone 6326 days ago
There is just no difference.

Okaydoke: we'll go from the external stuff ONLY. There's the MagSafe power connector, which I love. There's the built-in iSight that's so pervasive any app writer can build in a camera, which is really neat. There's the fact that the computer suspends as soon as you close the case, wakes as soon as you open it. There's the smoothness of the CD drive. The Unibody case in the new Macbooks, the beautiful little divet you use to wake the computer up, and the function buttons that handle iTunes controls, ejecting. The light-up keys. Stop saying there's no difference.

No offense, but I think your mind will be changed after you are out of college and need to do $MAXIMAL_TASKS in $MINIMAL_TIME. A day spent customizing something pays for itself very quickly in increased productivity. If you have plenty of free time, you might not care, but if you have more to do than there are hours in a day, you will want to save as much time as possible.

Which is why it's a good thing that Mac is full-fledged Unix, so that I can customize every aspect using terminal, I can skin the entire thing, I can modify every little aspect of it to work exactly how I want, and I can go to emacs and do everything I need, right?

The Mac is customizable. I can do anything I want to with it. The fact that I don't is because I don't want to. There's a very healthy Mac-modding community out there.