I was indeed referring to cost.
Macs are a great bit of kit if you only need their limited subset of applications and hardware, but you do pay a premium for what is essentially normal PC harware running an updated version of BSD. Because of the much smaller hardware base, Mac applications (especially in the audio/video category) can be better optimised to the hardware.
With regards to "fully functional laptop", I mean to say, a laptop that can run ALL your normal applications, not some stripped down version of an operating system.
Incidently, I have experience of Windows, Linux, Unix, MAC OSX, BeOS (Haiku), AmigaOS, DOS and many real-time OS's found in embedded devices amongst others. I run Windows based servers and desktops at work purely because of the finctionality and integration provided by MS Exchange, MS Office, Goldmine (CRM) and Sage (Accounts). It's this type of thing Itpro is alluding to when he mentions "getting work done". Having used Windows since 3.1, the transition to the Mac way of doing things is too far removed to be immediately accesible, not to mention the high cost of hardware.
Having said that, people really should just use what works for them.
Dave
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