Still a Mac diehard. Unless you get core 2. It is a dog. I had Windows running in only 4 meg of ram and I'm no windows lover. Mac OSX has a big software base, but if an altrnative gets good software it could offer a real alternative. I hate the spinning beachball. You confuse bloat and high end processors with a good OS. A good OS should run well on lesser hardware. By the way, I am a real programmer with Assembly language and C and C++ experience. I tested the original Amiga OS and have written some original programs. When I said the deal about Mac not be a microkernel, I meant it has a mixed kernel heritage. OSX is mach plus BSD. BSD is monolithic. QNX by contrast is not. It is distributed. Some monolithic features work better for some applications. Others are better distributed. However, I hate slow boot and 1 gig plus OS. I have had 2 major crashes with my hard drives and the filesystem is NOT great.
BE file system is better. Two kernels is more to go wrong. Apple has never been the great inventor. It started on the Amiga and Commodore. Apple 2 was a piece of junk. I don't like apples attitude as a company towards it's users. No real support. Still a dog OS. Prove me wrong with REAL info. I have used all their software. It is pure bloat. Anything can run well on a Core Duo.
