Another poster is correct. I do have additional CM scripts installed and they may be the slower-downers. So I guess my only beef with OSX is its supreme lack of native CM options.

One CM I am using is very valuable to me. It touches the "creation date" on multiple files. Many photos I import from Windows tend to be created in 1967. I don't think photo creation that defy time and space will be available till OS XI. ;-)

for me its dead simple.. my windows box is for gamming and burning ****.. my mac laptop is for taking to work, chatting, surfing, downloading.... and my linux box runs my webserver and shoutcast server...


think about it...you got the huge number of game titles with the windows.. you got the ease of use and functionality of a mac for the laptop which is what you want a laptop for anyways.. and you got your linux running your server which needs to be stable and running 24/7 (currently my linux box is working on 6 months uptime without 1 restart or shutdown).

Sounds reasonable. I will say that OS X makes for a darned good server as well. I've had to do very few restarts and it's much easier to set up than Linux, imo.

Actually, it is opposite with me. My home unit (which is shared with my wife right now) is a G4 iMac. My PC is a portable. I too use it for games, but I got tired of lugging a big ol box to the LAN gaming gatherings. That and laptops are the only boxes that stand-by without fans running all the time.

If only they made those games for mac... People on PC would probably grind their theeth when they see you come in with a G4 1.5 ghz 17 inch laptop, and see you laugh a bit at them who have to carry a huge pile of **** to be able to have a machine that performs as well as yours does... :D

Funny, one of our LAN gamers came to me for advice on a laptop Mac for doing video. You would have thought he hit a beehive with a rock. Actually, it wasn't that bad, but some said, "PCs can do that!" We walked outside and talked. I basically told him that PCs can do video, but they were not really designed to do it like a Mac is. I advised him on what to get. He got it, and I have never gotten a support question. In this case, no news must be good news.

The same goes with computer unsavy family members too... Calls went from 3-4 times a week (onbe person only) to once a week, but for questions that are actually not bothersome.. Like what program I can recommend to do this or that... but no questions like: The screen just went blue when I started Word and now its frozen and I can't do anything (Ok ok... a mean example, but hey, are we on an MS loving forum ? :D )

unfortunately, many people underestimate the mac as a webserver. As X has the best of both worlds. Which I will be turning mines into(well, having most of the things a webserver have, but not sharing).

For the most part, everything I need & want, my mac has it. So I haven't had the need to use anything else. But soon I plan on building a linux box, cause it's cheap. :cool: