i don't like apple stuff...

[Gooch]

i don't find os x as intuitive as people make it out to be

that is a dead-on observation. I have been trying to get my division at work to deal with OS X. Since we are a publishing firm, Macs pretty much are key to getting the art stuff done, and the difference between a PC & Mac is like night and day....

And pre-OS X, I felt my Mac was an ally to getting things done. We had things settled and all ran smoothly.

Post OS X: OS X is my worst enemy. Its font handling, and software developers inability to figure out the mess Mac has made, has us completely fucked. Then, on a new version of OS X...Panther, they changed how it deals with fonts again, and didn't bother telling the companies (namely Quark). OS X is not only non intuitive, it is volatile with publishing software..and classic mode is the biggest mess on the planet.

OS X has been our biggest problem. Mac. Not our clients, our editorial dept, or anything else. Mac has completely fucked us by not communicating their changes and helping developers work with the system.

A PC may suck balls for consistency and speed, but the programs doesn't just suddenly stop working. The font handling is smoother, even if it's not the same level. and for gaming, web and business applications...a PC is perfect.

As a designer and responsible for managing our technology in our group, Mac OS X is driving me insane. We have partnered up with Quarkxpress, and they admit to having lots of problems as they try to rewrite Quark completely for OS X.

And as far as stability goes...OS X has been the worst out of any system OS i have ever used. It's supposed to avoid complete system crashes. Yeah right. I've had more using it than ever on OS 8 or 9. Sure I cna shgut down programs...but fonts encompass more than one..and fonts are the biggest weakness to OS X.