But don't ignore the fact that the Mac rose to prosperty [..] through appealing to a younger generation with access to money a desire to look cool, because they hit that ball out of the park from my experiences, not my opinion
I'm glad it isn't your opinion, because you'd be wrong again. Mac owners, by age, are actually older on average than PC/Windows users.
As an embedded systems developer, who works in a company filled with EEs using OSX for their personal machines, I can say that what keeps me buying macs is that
* Like Linux, OSX is posix and has a working shell and scripting environment, and
* Like Windows, it has a pixel-perfect window manager and a tastefully designed UI that doesn't make my eyes bleed.
I'm glad it isn't your opinion, because you'd be wrong again. Mac owners, by age, are actually older on average than PC/Windows users.
http://www.metafacts.com/pages/media/tupan06_announce_061129...
As an embedded systems developer, who works in a company filled with EEs using OSX for their personal machines, I can say that what keeps me buying macs is that
* Like Linux, OSX is posix and has a working shell and scripting environment, and
* Like Windows, it has a pixel-perfect window manager and a tastefully designed UI that doesn't make my eyes bleed.