Here's a cool Mac feature...
 

One of my projects here @ work is a web front end for capturing system images for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windoze. This can be kind of tricky due to the vast differences between the OS's and to juggle it all from a web server. One user was having an issue trying to boot a Linux box, and rather than try to write down and/or describe what it was doing, he simply captured the entire boot sequence as a movie file using his Mac and a console emulator.

I have no idea of you can do this in Windoze, at least not without $$$$ in s/w

PCs suck.

Thats pretty cool. I'll have to take another look at MACs.

Now that they run a flavor of Unix, and not some screwball OS, they really aren't so bad. I just know PCs far too well at this point to change...

heh. dmesg would've done it fine too... or cat /var/log/messages

Motion - PCs are great. Dual AMD chips for cheap with tons of RAM and put a real operating system on it and you'll be fine.

I don't understand why PC's have such a bad rep. Mine are fine.

My home one exhibited its first instability ever yesterday, but that was mostly because I went from trying a mild overclock to a fullon one (didn't work out). I've settled on about 15% higher (it had been at 10%).

Its now stable again, and no probs. Sure, Macs are pretty, easy to use (in every way) and stable but.... $$$$ and no games.

Linux seems to be as pretty as you can be bothered, both easy and very difficult to use (I have Ubuntu, so easy if its gui, hard if its in the terminal), and - of course - totally freeeeeeeee, but no games... Mine's about as stable as Windows XP on the same box.