Ahem, adam, sorry but you're wrong.

Macs are actually somewhat more powerful than PC's. Every workbench will tell you.
Problem is that they are too expensive and there are a lot of compatibility issues. As far as to why businesses use PC's, it's a catch 22: because of compatibility issues and because almost all businesses use PC's, the businesses have to use PC's.

As far as stability goes, they are equivalent. OS 9 and below was ridiculous as well as Windows 9x. OSX and 2000/XP are both excellent OSes.

JamMeister33, nothing about to Mac fanatics. I simply agree your afirmation: if anyone wish a Mac desktop, the best solution is to buy a real Mac
Yes, i'm a Mac user, and i prefer the Aqua interface, but not exactly their dock (i minimized the zoom, to a non-disturbing size).
IMO, the best of Mac desktops are the usability: Apple+N to make a new folder, Apple+I to show properties, and other features not included in Windows). But not all is better in OSX: OS9 is faster and have more features, WindowsXP have unseen features in OSX.
But, i know, a dock is a candy

Uh oh, I feel a Mac vs PC war coming up.

How about the Mac ad where the guy is woke up by his kid because she couldn't print? Then he takes the computer apart and messes with the cards. I sure would like to know which card fixed it. (guess he never heard of drivers )

jebland: i am betting he is one of those guys that had a 90mgz computer with no USB ports and bought a USB printer, and then had to buy a USB card. So often Windows gets blamed for people trying to glue new stuff on old junk.

Really, i prefer MacOS 9 for usability and consistence between applications, but it crashes a lot, and the apps monopolizes all the CPU for simple tasks such send a file to print.
Y make a lot of CMYK separations, and i have no time to wait until these separations are sended to the spooler.
Actually i allways use OSX at work. On my work i allways used a Mac (i not selected the kind of computer) before the first release of WIndows95. I'm very habituated to Macs, and i like them a lot.
I'm a lover of the hotkeys use, too. Unfortunatelly, OSX isn't the best using hotkeys. Making icons and skins for WindowsXP, i discovered the existence of 'pre-tipping' the filename on Save dialogs (for example, if there's a file called myfile.bmp and you type 'my' it appears the remaining letters 'file' you only need the format to save, for example .png).
Any platform have the good and bad things. Now i'm habituated to Macs and Windows, and i'm habituating to Linux. At my first times using Windows95, i not appreciated a lot this system (very 'arcaic' compared to Macs in these past times)

Well, they kinda copy each other, really, in the end.
But nobody's an island. It's normal to be influenced.

Sarah McLachlan - Angel

elvee: I just did the exact same thing on the other Mac thread. Must be catching.

From my encounters with Mac's, they are WAY better for video and digital imaging than anything else (that is about the only good thing.. and geting inside the case). No Win program can beet FinalCut Pro. But great balls of fire, the things cost you an arm and a leg, and a buddy's leg. I'd rather supe up a pc, with 2000 and the latest release of Redhat, with an HD display than buy a mac..

Well, after being around during the last 3 and a half years , I must say that I never downloaded one single "Mac" theme or skin.

I agree with JamMeister33 first post in 100%: "If I wanted a Mac, I'd buy a Mac "

I see that some authors use to make Mac things in the same away they make XP things and will make Longhorn or whatever be popular in the future, just to get downloads.

I can's see the necessity of WC to care dozens and dozens of theme and skins of the same thing, just changing a few pixels for them to say: "Hey! this is the OSX I created!"....all those mimic themes and skins are nothing more then rips to me, since NOTHING was created by those "authors".

Using a Mac theme on a pc machine, is the same thing as if you have a Ford car, but using all the accessories of a Chevrolet, just to pretend that you have a chevy, because you don't have the $$$ to buy one...this doesn't make any sence to me.

If some of you thinks that I am overdoing, just make a search in the DesktopX, Windowblinds, Winstyles,etc.. sections and you will see what I mean...tons of the same thing, just different names as the "authors"

So what if people want to make their PC look like a Mac. That's part of the whole idea behind skinning. It's supposed to be Fun. Lighten up people, relax, take a deep breath. Aaahh, that's better.