Um actually Apples are good computers. I don't own one though.
that has nothing to do with what I said...
and its not true. at first I used apple computers for the longest time and I got sooo many stupid frowny macs its not even funny(thats how it tells you there is a problem, a little frowny mac at bootup). anyone who tells you windows messes up more then apples dont know what they are talking about.
then I found out that windows could actually play good games and I got a windows. and it came with windows ME! and i still thought it ran better... yep, I though windows ME ran better then macs >.>;
Actually they do, reason being that when you buy an Apple, you are buying an Apple. When you buy a PC, you are getting a mixture of products from various sources. What they are referring to with windows being buggy, is not the actual O/S, it is more the hardware involved causing the O/S to malfunction. So 'El Cheapo Gordido' pc is going to crash and blue screen and give you hell, whereas... Apple Macintosh G5... is just that. It is an in-house 1 single manufacturer unit which will operate the same as the guy's G5 same model # and series in the UK. They are the same system. So then Apple engineers one o/s to work with their stuff and it just works. That's at least how it is suppose to be.
And contrary to this post, yes I have worked with macs that freeze like a b**tch and it is annoying as hell. But I would assume that lately none of them exhibit this problem because they're mostly intels now and they got beyond those hurdles.
Well you know all OS/X is, is another Unix clone with a GUI. Think of it somewhat as Redhat running Gnome or KDE. If you open a terminal, generally BASH will show up and you can pretty much use the common linux commands in it.
Now the thing for me is, I like PCs because I know what parts are good that go together and are fully compatable with the microsoft operating systems. So I put it all together and have minimal problems. There are a lot of people who scheme and shortcut on cost and stuff and I really don't understand how/why they do this because my parts I look for the best prices and the good product and I throw a machine together right away. I have been using asus, corsair, maxtor, wd, nvidia, intel...all good stuff but when you go in and drop a few grand on a mac, you are always getting intel or powerpc and you are always getting the same drives, same video chips, same o/s designed to operate with the video chips (generally ATI in this case), and on and on.. I think it is a better way to do things, but the main problem everyone has with Mac is that it costs a few hundred or so $ more than a windows compatable PC (well macs run windows too but that's another thing).
Would Apple ever release mac os/x to work on a PC? probably not. reason being, that it does cost a lot more R&D to develop software that can run over various processor types, chipsets, motherboards, etc etc. it is cheaper and more stable for them to have it all for Apple hardware and leave it at that.
You can also relate this to video games too. It takes less R&D to develop a title for a playstation than a PC because everyone has the same playstation..you just go to the store and buy your Tomba 2 disc and pop it in and play. No problems. Of course they do eventually put some R&D into patching a few games here and there but is rare, in the older console cases at least. There are also some Xbox360 titles that do not get updates because the company knows that the R&D isn't worth their money and they just drop it. There's also a lot of 360 titles that do get constant updates but it all just depends on the structure of the software development plan. If it was not in the plan, then they're likely not going to develop fixes unless there is a major problem (such as media attention to Hot Coffee for example which I know that is not a 360 title but stuff like that eventually gets patched because there's too much negative media attention surrounding it). Also Nintendo has fixed rare bugs/glitches because they figured people would eventually find them and they wanted to correct it before too many people try to return their games. It's actually cheaper for Nintendo to patch and re-release a revision 1.1 of a cartridge rather than recall every revision 1.0 and exchange for 1.1 or refund all.