Strong reasons to prefer OS X over Windows 3268

In 1984 (and really until about 1991 or 1992) the difference between Macintosh and PC was the difference between GUI and CLI. Since then, Windows has played a game of catch-up, borrowing concepts from every GUI out there and cramming them onto Windows. Nowadays the difference between Macintosh and Windows is more subtle, but it still measurable. It takes a careful and detailed analysis of the UI: You have to write down every general principle, every rule, and every exception to those principles and rules, for both operating systems.

But the form and role of what we used to call "mainframes" has changed. There are computing worlds quite separate from personal computers: big-butt corporate databases, mbuttive parallel computation, big and fast web servers, etc. These are all much more complex than mainframe software of twenty years ago. Apple is not competing much in this space. (Its Xserve line does provide a good solution for small to medium web servers, and cluster nodes have shown up in the Top N Supercomputers list form time to time.)

Finally, Apple's main compebreastor is no longer IBM, it's Microsoft and the other hardware vendors.

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