Any PC users in here?
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for designing, a mac may be better - i wouldn't know. but for developing, it's a horrible platform. the documentation for carbon/cocoa is very poor. there are rarely examples provided. api's are CONSTANTLY being deprecated. and worst of all, there aren't a lot of venues for support. there's like one or two good forums and an apple dev mailing list. if they can't help you, or choose not to respond, you're fucked. in addition, xcode is a horrible IDE. it would take some time to explain the problems, but for an operating system who's strength is supposedley it's intuitive interface, having to manually use the mouse to move between the Find and Replace textboxes in a Search/Replace dialog instead of just using a Tab key is ridiculous.
now, for watching movies, playing music or surfing the web, i can't complain. and i'm sure there are a ton of other useful fun tasks it can do well. like printing pretty pictures. i'm sure they made that a snap.
windows might not do everything right either, but if they know one thing it's development. visual studio is the perfect editor and msdn is chock full of examples of their api (most of which are still around from windows 95). and googling almost any api call will result in pages of results rather than a link or two.
i've written all this is to underline the point that inevitably gets made in every mac/pc discussion: it's (the computer) just a specialized tool and tools work better for some uses than others.