[ChrisA]

heres what i see as pros and cons of diff operating systems with macs and pcs

win9x: 95=bad, however win98 is quite stable and also reasonably prices. probably best version of win for the home user.

win NT/2k/XP: all very good operating systems with many more features than previous versions of windows. all are much more stable than win9x. XP is not as stable as 2k as of yet and is more "user friendly" (this all depends on the user and what the user wants to do).

Linux/BSD/Unix: Very good operating systems for the more advanced type users. These operating systems can do almost anything you want them to do. The draw back to these is that they are much more complicated to use.

Mac: Macs in general are made to be super user friendly. With Apple making and/or supporting every piece of the Macintosh computers, it is very easy to get Tech. support or hardware/software replacement. Made to be very affordable computers. The main drawback is that the majority of programs that people like to use are not useable by Macs. Macs in general are used mainly for graphic design and for video editting (i say they do this the best).

Mac OSX: I being a PC user myself was very impressed with OSX. Very graphical and very user friendly. Being able to see it from its beta stages I did see quite a few flaws that were patched up as soon as they released it on the market. One major drawback to this OS as with any OS with a highly graphical user interface was that it required a lot of RAM to run smoothly.

There's not many people who like both. Everyone has their own preference. I just don't like to see people saying bad things about the opposite. Such as Macs suck or PC are horrible. Nothing is bad. Some things are just better in that particular area.