But
OSX is built on Unix so Macs have the stability of Linux yet come with a huge number of applications which make 'doing things on the web' extremely simple. You can literally take it out of the box, plug it in and it's ready to go.
Five years ago pretty much every physicist in the world was running Linux. These days huge numbers of them are on Macs - and I can assure you that isn't because of form over function.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 13:22, Reply)