iamaboringperson wrote:
[hum, Appels cunning plan to hide the fact that their OS is rubbish?]
I used OS X for the first time a few days ago, and it kicks ass. 
Try using any pre Unix-derived versions of MacOS and see if it still rocks. Frankly, before X, I regarded MacOS as simply the worst consumer OS in existance (sorry to any afficionados). I had to use MacOS 7 (under shapeshifter and on a real 040 mac), MacOS 8 and 9 on a G3 iMac. I didn't enjoy any of them in the least.
Switching to unix was the smartest OS move they ever made. Credit to them for actually making OSX keep the Mac look and feel whilst removing the inadequacies of the inner workings :-)