[skunark]

Having been an IT professional for over 20 years and having worked with both platforms, I really have no emotional bias.  So I just want to reiterate that Microsoft and Apple both have the capacity to suck, and I have, depending on the occasion, loved and hated them equally!  But today, Apple sucks big time!

With anything, being first to update can have negative consequences, for someone with 20 years experience in IT, shocked you were in that group since you seem to be unwilling to take the risk.   Windows XP Service Packs, Sony PS3 firmware upgrades, both remind me why I wait a week before doing updates.  This is one more of those situations, where I normally respond. "Thanks for the heads up"  or "Sorry to hear you have to send in your PS3 to get it fixed"   

At least here, it's just a simple restore of the firmware and profile.

[bernardl]

I have been an OSX user for 3 or 4 years and basically own one machine in each segment now (including a recent mini as music server). I am overall very pleased by the value provided.

I still use Win7 at work and I do like it as well. I feel that MS has progressed a lot more than Apple on the OS front in 3 years. Tiger was miles ahead of Vista but Snow is only marginally better than Win7.

One major concern with the Mac platform though is the lack of focus of Apple on the high end. The Mac Pro has only seen very shy upgrades these past few years and is getting technologically outdated in terms of memory capability, interfaces,...

I am also not sure to like where they are going with the Mac App store. Jobs' big brotherish views are getting old and I, for one, was shocked by their decision to remove the Wikileaks app from their store. I don't expect my solutions providers to either propose political views nor to act as gov puppets.

So all in all, great user experience, but there are clouds showing up on the horizon...

Cheers,
Bernard

[JohnR]

Sort of an interesting topic there Bernard - I switched from Mac to Windows in the late 90's. Didn't really have much choice at the time, considering where Apple was at that time. It could happen again.