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The more I look around, the more it seems that nobody who does what I do suggests doing what I'm suggesting. I imagine there's good reason for that. I'm hearing from creative types who use Mac software for graphics or video, I'm hearing from people who really just don't like Microsoft, but I'm not hearing from software developers or sysadmin folk who find any advantages at all on the Apple platform.

On the Apple platform? no. On Apple hardware, yes. The Mac Pro makes a very good, cost-competitive vs Dell, beautifully-made, near-silent, high performance Linux box. When I got it I thought it was sort-of neat that it came with MacOS -- he who dies with the most operating systems wins, right? -- but in fact it's spent maybe a couple of hours running MacOS since I got it, and all the rest of the time running Linux.

Peter