I have always thought that Mac OS X was total crap and vowed to myself that I would never become another Apple fan boy. However these thoughts were always based on my bias towards windows and not my actual experience with Mac OS X.
When I was given the opportunity this summer to use a Mac Book Pro (MBP) at my internship I was excited to see what the Mac world was all about and hopefully stumble upon some real reasons for hating it. :)
Some things I like about my MBP is that the machine has some really great features. These include the magnetic battery, lots of keyboard hot button, Expose, and the Tiger version of OS X is incredibly stable. The operating system itself is great because it can do just about everything Windows can maybe even more since you can use Linux commands.
There is also a few things I hate about MBPs. The hardware is total crap, I have seen at least 3 hard drives completely fail on brand new out of the box machines. Even the cd rom drives seem to have a short life span. And if you hardware does die don't count on opening up the machine yourself and fixing the problem because MBPs are a real pain to open up and work on. The Leopard version of OS X is a sorry excuse of an operating system and in my opinion is just as unstable as Windows Vista. So ignore all this Mac and PC propaganda Apple puts out. Another thing I dislike is the fact that when a MBP is on standby this stupid light always shines and there is no way to turn it off.
Overall Mac OS X and MBPs are decent. I think they both do the same things, if you need any more power then they offer you should just go to Linux. I of course would never purchase a Mac just based on the fact that they are way overpriced and the hardware is too likely to take a dump, but if you need the coolest toy out there go ahead and get one. :)
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