Aside from occasionally deciding to change some of my system settings by itself at random, OS 10.2 is the best operating system I've ever worked with. WinXP is OK, as far as MS OS' go (I have to warn you, aside from XBox, I'm extremely anti-Microsoft. But I try to behave myself for social reason. ). My one major gripe about XP is, why do they say you never get a blue screen of death. when I get at least one a month at work?
BTW, anyone see Apple's new Pentium-killer G5 Power Mac? ::runs before another violent computer debate starts::
How about SENDING a G5 Macintosh so Rob can develop on there?
As for the interwoven topic:XP is generally stable, but any machine that's run in a stressful enviornment (work) is bound to be more busy than you can imagine (especially if on a network, where its running signals all over whether or not you're even thinking about it.)
I don't have any real problem with Macs (electronics are electronics, I love 'em all), but they're too damn expensive. I can spend $200 and buy a new motherboard, processor, case, memory included on the IBM side of things. Can't do that for a new Mac.
You can usually get upgrade processors ... even older 68k ones.
There's a bunch. I almost bought one once... but it's $200. And I already need to work something like 3 or 4 months to get out of the hole I'm in. So money like that can't be so easily splurged.Besides, I'm gonna get into 3D now I hope. I'll probably need a half-decent somewhat-modern Mac that's gonna kick it with OpenGL.