The more and more I use my Macs...

[Deja Q]

the more I owe a BIG apology for my daft ignorance and not thinking of other facets and possibilities about this platform.

* I used to lament ("less power for more money"). Well, Windows requires more power and we're all conditioned to want that more power. OS X doesn't need the power, and has a lot of 3D cutesie animations Vista has too. Except a "slow" Mac feels faster than a higher powered Vista computer.

* Lower power also translates to electricity savings.

* "OS X is just open source". No, it isn't. There are copyrighted components in OS X, Apple has given back to the open source community, and unlike open source I can find drivers for ALL my hardware.

* Adobe wasn't going to make a 64-bit version of their apps. (My ignorance; OS X isn't fully 64-bit until the new version, 10.6, comes out in June.)

* "Uses the same hardware". Uses the same CPU and northbridge chipset. The quality of the innards seems to be better, the aluminum case in the MacBook series dissipates heat far more effectively, and in the 24" iMacs the screen alone is worth $900 of the total cost. Those standaalone 24" PC monitors use inferior technology, which results in more faded looking colors and lacking shadow detail.

I do like Vista's 64-bit features and multimedia (not to mention it, unlike XP 64-bit, is stable), but it seems one has to throw more money and hardware into it than one does for a Mac.