Originally Posted by JinnKai

Will, I appreciate that you understand the Mac, but berating others with your arguments of "Explorer" is pretty weak, considering that Explorer and Internet Explorer are entirely different pieces of software. I realize that this was probably just a "typo" too, but I agree with Knife that it shows your misunderstanding of computers on a fundamental level (or at least, your Windows knowledge).

And understandly so - most people also don't know that GHz isn't the only measuring stick, and in fact it can be the worst if you're concerned about processing power.

Furthermore, your colloquial experience offers little in the claim that Mac OS is more stable. For every one of your examples, I could cite my own. We've got a server farm in our QA department, with machines running Win NT, XP, and 2003. They've got hundreds of days of uptime, some are measured in years. On the other hand, the one Mac machine we have to test compliance across OS/Browser combinations, has stalled three times on me.

What you'd be interested, perhaps, in reading -- is real benchmarks. Not synthetic, not "toy" benchmarks - real, based-on-real code benchmarks. You'll see that despite your claim of "stability," the x86 ISA, and subsequently Windows, outperforms the heralded Mac in scientific and mathematical computations.

In order to really convince anyone that an OS is superior, you'd have to demonstrate an understanding of what an Operating System is and why it behaves the way it does. There are entire MS programs devoted to OS/instruction set understanding and optimization. There is much more involved than "this program runs better on this OS." The most important is optimization.

In theory, one could write an Application that took ten times longer to execute on a Macintosh than it did on a PC. And of course, one could write an application that took ten times longer to execute on a PC than it did on Macintosh. This does NOT reflect on the quality of the OS, only the ability of the Application Designers.

As you can see, I'll deign that Macintosh might be better at writing Applications, and they're probably better at optimizing that software. So they're a better Application Developer. Those statements, however, are completely unrelated to the Operating System itself.