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MacOS X isn't a bad operating system. Even Mac hardware isn't. It is some of the most beautifully designed Hardware out there.
Mac just looks good & doesn't provides anything good over Windows other then not many virus out there. Any OEM computer comes with some sort of security suite whether it is Norton or Mcafee or Kaspersky, but at least it comes with one & most of the time that does the job just fine.
-not "not many". try NO viruses. i can leave my mac connected to internet, awake, firewall disabled all weekend (week, month, year..) and not have a care in the world about being infected by a virus. try that with a windows box. i DARE you.
Microsoft also releases periodically patches for the Operating systems & a fully patched system is better protected then Mac or Linux is out of the box.
-see above and i repeat- i DARE you.
These 2 things take out the biggest weak point in Windows, security.
2nd comes the VFM. Well, those who bought XP Pro 6 years ago are still using it & it still rox. If $300 for an OS which you will run for everyday in the next 6 years is too much to ask (Well, actually it is) then $130 for an OS which you will use for one year only is also too much to ask.
-the flaw with your reasoning is that someone who paid the initial $130 for panther (or got it free with their machine for that matter) could have gone this whole time without spending another dime. sure, lets talk VFM.
You cannot upgrade your Mac, & no any normal PCI card or PCIe Graphics card won't work in Mac Pro too. If you call upgrading RAM as upgrading the computer then you should take a lesson in computing. Macs are hardly any VFM.
-i have never felt the need or desire to upgrade a cpu or video card. motherboards and chipsets change so frequently that if such a time has passed that my computer is feeling woefully slow, after maxing out the ram, i would for sure hand it down and simply buy a new machine. other things like optical drive and HDD can be easily replaced/upgraded.
Now come to Macbooks, they are highly outdated & over prices. A Macbook comes with 64 MB GMA 950 when Intel themselves provides support for upto 224 MB shared RAM with GMA 950. Why isn't apple using it to the Max?
-please show me a laptop with all the same standard features for a considerable savings.
Second thing, heat issues. It is indeed correct that Macbook Pro is very thin, just 1 inch thick. But that creates more problem than it solves such as overheating issue.
-so you would rather lug around a 2 inch thick lapbrick than have a machine that gets hot. i know a lot of people who would strongly dissagree.
Lets come to the bundles application & UI. Mac UI is cluttered, you end up with so many Windows open on screen when u only need one or 2, ever heard about keeping your desk clean Mac users? I used expose in Mac & thanks god MS didn't provided it in Vista. Expose is needed in Mac due to very bad window switching via keyboard. You need to press commandtab to switch between different applications & then command` to switch between different Windows of same applications.
-you want to talk about cluttered? my god, i get a headache using windows for only a few minutes. the average windows user keeps a shortcut for every application they use on the desktop, along with documents, various adware/spyware installers, etc. i can also minimize any window i wish just like windows
I just mentioned how much the dock sux cos it provides no info about "How many IM Windows of Yahoo Messenger do i have open?". Expose is vital for the UI of Mac, & is not required for Windows where we have a unified window switching method. Alttab also known as FlipTab.
-interesting, i guess if it's a feature you badly need (chat much?)....
If you don't have iLife, then you don't have a good out of the box experience. Macs don't even come with a good Photo Management application inbuilt. Preview is nothing & iPhoto also isn't any good if you want to manage things your way.
-as already beaten to death, ilife has come with macs for years. iphoto is better than any OEM photo suite i have seen on windows, i'm thinking this is a case of not being familiar with it.
Here are the major flaws:
1) No option to cut and paste files between drives. (The most major flaw, IMHO)
-already said, but you can hold command and drag a file from one drive to another with the same effect. this is a flaw like saying vista sucks because it doesn't have an apple menu in the top left corner of the screen.
2) Non-Standard & weird keyboard navigation. Requires modifier keys for simple thing which have dedicated Keys on Keyboard such as delete or insert or print screen.
-non-standard eh? does MS have another "standard" us crazy mac folk aren't screaming to adopt?
3) No option to customize the default looks of the OS in the OS itself other then changing some fonts only & a selection of gray or aqua buttons.
-if you can use third party apps to (partially) protect your computer from virus, then you can also count candybar for os x customization.
4) Finder doesn't provide icon spacing, address bar or tabbed navigation such as Path Finder or Windows Explorer breadcrumb bar. You cannot drag a file & go up one level while the file still staying in drag.
-column view. i wouldn't use anything else.
5) iTunes has no support to play any music format other then mp3 & mp4. You will need to convert all your songs if they are in other format, if you want them to play in iTunes. This despite of having a solid QuickTime backend. Power DVD or FFDSHow or Orban play MP4 & M4A in WMP fine cos they are all direct show based. But despite of QuickTime based iTunes doesn't play any music format including wma other then mp3 & aac.
-you mean other than .wav, .aiff, apple lossless..... the only file format you mentioned that itunes doesn't support is WMP. does it offend you to hear that the only people who care about WMP are windows users?
6) Dock doesn't group different Windows.
-at first you say it doesn't seperate a million messenger windows and now you say it doesn't group them. i'm not sure what to believe anymore.
7) There is no way to find how many windows a single application has opened. Such as if Yahoo Messenger is on & there are 3 windows then dock will not show that there are three windows open. You will need to use either expose or command`.
-you say there is "no way" and then go on to explain how we do it. amazing!
No Out of the box Photo Management application. iPhoto required you to buy iLife, & still lacks in many ways such as lack of tree based navigation. You have to rely on it the way it wants to. There are not many customization options in iPhoto.
-again, "no out of the box photo management app" while referencing iPhoto which is... wait for it... THE OUT OF THE BOX PHOTO MANAGEMENT APP?!?!? good god man!
9) Windows do not maximize, limiting the zooming capabilities of Safari or Finder. You end up with many Windows on your screen, which you don't even require.
-if i do not require multiple windows OS X does not force me to have them. talk about multiple windows, how long has it taken IE to get tabbed browsing?
10) Close apps does not means exiting them. You need to press Command+Q to exit an application.
-there are many ways to exit an application, and unless you're conditioned to windows it's common knowledge (and something i hope you are capable of learning). quit using the application menu, control-click it's dock icon, or in most cases just pressing that red button. there are only a few exceptions to which i don't have an excuse for other than to say it doesn't bother me.
11) You cannot resize Windows from any side. Just the south east corner.
-and until i can resize windows from the southwest corner i will just suffer a horible existance. no really.
12) Lack of 3rd party applications. There are applications but they all do almost the same thing. They just look good without providing anything new in most cases.
-are you serious? just because there isn't the overabundance of UTTER CRAP software that windows is cluttered with? i can find an application to allow me to do anything i've ever wanted to do with my computer. i don't know what you're missing.
13) No Unified Uninstaller to uninstall an application & remove all the preference & helper files it has. (Like in Windows' "Add/Remove PRograms")
-yeah, i really miss having to go through the uninstaller. dragging the app icon to the trash is the pits.
14) iMovie is not included with Mac OS. If you want to run it on old version of Mac OS X you will need to buy iLife.
-same as iphoto, this comes standard. imovie is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than any fully functioning movie editing suite that comes with a windows box.
15) QuickTime requires you to buy the Pro version to play videos full screen. Mac OS X won';t play full screen videos out of the box & neither VCDs. VLC Player is a must.
-well, if VLC is a must it's a good thing it's FREE. if the default windows media player is able to do full screen i am going to have A FIT!
16) No option to "Create a new file" in Finder by default.
-can you explain why i would want to "create a new file" in the finder? how would that work exactly?
17) It asks you to enter password just for simple installation like installing DivX Codec or install an iContainer in Candybar.
-to ensure that your little sister isn't installing a bunch of crap onto your computer while you're away, and to make sure you haven't accidentally clicked a link to download something you didn't want. make sense yet?
18) This can be attributed to the pathetic keyboard based nevigation in Mac OS. In Windows or Linux, by just pressing the Tab button, I can cycle between the controls & boxes or check boxes in an application. You know, more like that tab button acts as "Next form" button in those OS.
-wow.... that's, amazing? i'll get the OS X developers on that right away- i'm sure they'll see the urgency.
In Mac OS it is nothing like that, seriously this is a very simple thing. Who uses a mouse always anyway?
19) Page zoom in Firefox & Safari both is bad. It just zooms or increses the text size, i seriously miss the Page zoom of IE 7 which is best.
-i've never felt the need to page zoom. these are some serious nit-picky "flaws" you're coming up with.
Now some really good features worth mentioning in Mac OS X
1) System wide spell check. It is available everywhere even Yahoo Messenger or TextEdit
2) iSync which automatically syncs with your mobile phone & copies the contact to Mac Address book. Then it is available anywhere.
3) Bluetooth for phone - Out of the box, in Windows Vista you can only send or recieve files from the phone to computer or vice versa. However in Mac you can nevigate the phone file system using bluetooth.
Out of the box, Windows Vista doesn't comes with spell check. You can install 3rd party application such as SpellMagic though but it is not in Windows by default.
The Windows Mobility centre acts as a central hub for all your mobile phone needs but the problem is it only works with Windows Mobile phones. So, it is next to useless cos Windows Mobile Phones cost a lot & are generally PDAs. For Sony Ericsson phones you can use Float Mobile Agent or My Phone Exploer, both are free.
If something is not there in Windows, chances are there is an alternative available for free. Unlike safari, which requires you to buy Saft for $!2 just for configuring it.
Brammy 
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