It's interesting isn't it - you do tend to treat a Mac as a bit more of an appliance rather than a computer. I don't tweak or play with mine anything like as much as I would and do on my Windows machines. It just works. On the other hand, I can't remember the last time I rebuilt any of my OSX kit.
I think sometimes it's easy to forget the technical capabilities of OSX too. I design a lot tech stuff so having the ability to virtualise a lot of guests is invaluable. I've never managed to get the same capability on Windows. My 2.4Ghz/6Gb/128Gb SSD/500Gb 7200RPM unit can run 6 guests and still allow me enough guts to be able to document what's going on in the hosts.
Wrote about that here: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/Entries/2009/9/28_OSX_&_Virtualisation.html
Funnily enough have also written about the appliance idea: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/E...e,_Pricing,_and_the_idea_of_an_Appliance.html
I think sometimes it's easy to forget the technical capabilities of OSX too. I design a lot tech stuff so having the ability to virtualise a lot of guests is invaluable. I've never managed to get the same capability on Windows. My 2.4Ghz/6Gb/128Gb SSD/500Gb 7200RPM unit can run 6 guests and still allow me enough guts to be able to document what's going on in the hosts.
Wrote about that here: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/Entries/2009/9/28_OSX_&_Virtualisation.html
Funnily enough have also written about the appliance idea: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/E...e,_Pricing,_and_the_idea_of_an_Appliance.html