Well, I’ll be a bit lazy and uncreative here, I saw an interesting one here :
How to Switch to the Mac at The Tao of Mac site.

I’m not going to start any platform comparison, but simply, article above should give a good insight before buying a mac. I switch to Mac for about 2 months now, and I regret I didn’t see this article beforehand. Not that I will drop my decision to switch if I did, but at least I didn’t have to learn some things the hard way.

IMHO, Mac is a great platform, I should say, way more than Windows, but less real power than UNIX / Linux. Of course I am biased, I see everything from developer standpoint, I don’t really care about how nice iPhoto could do photo album, or about downloading music from iTunes ( I wonder, how are those people listen to their 50.000 songs collection ? ). After all, I pick Mac because :

  1. Now it’s Intel based
  2. OS X is basically UNIX, with less security headache, spyware and myriad of malware lurking to get in.
  3. From price performance ratio standpoint, it’s very much worthwhile to spend a thousand buck for it, since I can get nice looking, dual core Intel system, that comes with neatly organized OS that I can use right out of the box. I reckon similarly configured Windows laptop will cost around US$ 1500, if ever it match a Mac, at all.. I don’t know how much a Windows Vista license cost, as if I ever really care :)

What I find a bit annoying about Mac is :

copying folder on top of similarly named folder will overwrite the old folder, not merge into it. I learn the hard way about it, I move a java source package into /opt directory, and all I see later on is a glob of data file named opt in the root directory… Yaiks… of course I’ve done that in terminal using command line ( for those asking “How come…” ), move a file is the same with renaming a file in UNIX world, and in my head “mv somefile.tar.gz /somedir” usually move the file into the directory, not renaming the file and overwrite the directory, the operating system should be able to distinguish the type of the target, whether it’s a regular file or a directory… pretty much a brain dead way on doing simple thing, especially for highly praised and overhyped platform … sigh..

I know, i know, there’s a warning when you do sort of thing, but mind you, I was doing it in the shell terminal, not in Finder GUI, anyway, I still think that Mac OS should be able to merge folders, or at least distinguish between regular file and directory and then act accordingly, not just giving stupid useless warning telling that user is stupid on attempting such action.

Other thing is the warning on “leaving a secure website” which only have one button “OK”, hmm.. oh no, that’s for other stuff, not Mac OS .. haha :D