Just to start off...Apple Computers makes the Mac. Just a little pet peeve, no harm intended.
Mac OS X is based off FreeBSD (10.0 was BSD 4.2, 10.2 is BSD 4.4, 10.3 is BSD 5.0) which is Unix. Basically all Linux, Unix, Java, Mac OS 9 and Windows app run nicely in their various incarnations. Then again, you have nice developers like myself who ask "You have switched from Windows, what apps are you missing" and then we write them for you.
Naw, no porno for me, I prefer a woman to a screen anyday.
As for ease of use...I spent about a day sleeping using the Mac and I was finished. All the basics are the same as Windows. Once you use it for more than a week though, you will find it extremely difficult switching back as you will come to rely on way too many cool features inside Mac OS X. For instance, the favorites collection in the save panel, column view, customizable toolbars, recent applications menu, etc.
Also, once you use iTunes and all its companion apps (like some of mine) and use an iPod, there is absolutely no way you will switch back.
I never used Mac OS 9 or before because once upon a time back in at work, I went to test a webpage, booted IE 4 and the entire system crashed. I do not respect a machine that can do that.
Mac OS X is based off FreeBSD (10.0 was BSD 4.2, 10.2 is BSD 4.4, 10.3 is BSD 5.0) which is Unix. Basically all Linux, Unix, Java, Mac OS 9 and Windows app run nicely in their various incarnations. Then again, you have nice developers like myself who ask "You have switched from Windows, what apps are you missing" and then we write them for you.
Naw, no porno for me, I prefer a woman to a screen anyday.
As for ease of use...I spent about a day sleeping using the Mac and I was finished. All the basics are the same as Windows. Once you use it for more than a week though, you will find it extremely difficult switching back as you will come to rely on way too many cool features inside Mac OS X. For instance, the favorites collection in the save panel, column view, customizable toolbars, recent applications menu, etc.
Also, once you use iTunes and all its companion apps (like some of mine) and use an iPod, there is absolutely no way you will switch back.
I never used Mac OS 9 or before because once upon a time back in at work, I went to test a webpage, booted IE 4 and the entire system crashed. I do not respect a machine that can do that.