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[JackoliciousLegs]

The choice of hippies, em0 kids, and indy rockers----> Apple

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The choice of designers, developers, network engineers, system administrators, security analysts... etc.

I think that apple really works for three segments of the computer user market. The very beginner user or the user that has little to no desire for games and just wants an easy interface to do the typical computer stuff (word process, presentations, email, web, photos). AND Real power users who appreciate a stable environment which looks great and you can get under in a hurry if you need to. The serious sysadmins that I've worked with are all on *nix and a good portion just buy a mac to kill two birds in one stone (desktop/workstation). Sorry, linux sucks as a desktop OS... even Ubuntu. Sorry, windows sucks for anything sysadmin related. AND of course graphic design professionals use it. I don't need to explain that.

If I wanted BSD Id install BSD on a cheap Intel box I built myself, not pay a ton of money for slow hardware runnign a BSD core and a shitty annoying gumdrop interface

The new intel Yonah processor is not slow at all... and powermac G5s are still quite quick. But I understand where you're coming from...