I don't think anybody has mentioned this, but the OSX browser is miles above XP in usefulness. Basically OSX is a better OS than XP, I don't think that can really be debated, maybe next year or two when Longhorn comes out people can argue, but OSX right now is in much better shape than XP.
In terms of we audio people the Audio Midi Set up includes built in Network MIDI, so you can send MIDI between macs via ethernet without third party software.
The major thing PCs have is the chips IMO, IBM and Motorola fucked Apple in production and speed, and we who used macs, plus were interested in speed had to suffer. For any application that uses duals, the problems aren't that bad considering Apple's dual machines, but the truth is the powerbooks are slow, dead reliable, and packed with decent features, but not too fast.
Now with Intel making chips for Apple, what is going to keep people like us who use laptops as instruments using PC? Seriously, I doubt that the Intel powerbook will be anything less than dead sexy, and the OS requires no maintenance to speak of. MIDI and audio are treated as important enough by Apple to be included on an OS level, the damn things might be expensive, but they really are turnkey out the box.
What I really like about windows is it's ability to run on roll you own PC's, and use AMD chips, but because of that ability I think it suffers a bit in it's approach, things can and do get a littel weird sometimes.
From a purely aesthetic veiwpoint, XP is designed for business's, and it shows in the GUI, I get tired just looking at it.
Anyway I wonder what these conversations will be like next year when OSX runs the same chip as XP? I'm sure price will still be an issue, but I have a hard time believing anybody can think that XP has anything on OSX?
PS, Don't take this personally, it's just my opinion, I'm just somebody who prefers OSX, that's all.
