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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Ive asked this several times, but haven't got a good answer yet. What can you do on a mac, that I cant do on a PC? I can name many many things I can do on a pc, that you can't do on a mac. Also there are motherboards available that support 16GB for pc too. 32 bit only supports 3gb. 64bit supports quite a bit more.
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Real Plug and Play.
Fewer security holes.
Stability.
Better user interface.
Quartz graphics layer - antialiasing, built in PDF, smoothed fonts, 128X128 icons, transparencies, drop shadows, genie effect, GPU accelerated GUI, cursor casts its own shadow, no bit-maps
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Multiprocessor support. XP Home doesn't have it.
iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iCal, iSync, iChat
Multi-threaded Finder.
Actual CD burning support out of the box.
Columns view.
Near zero hard disk fragmentation.
Rendezvous.
Inkwell.
System wide address book.
Software Airport Base Station.
.Mac
Spring-loaded folders.
Core Audio.
Plug and Play networking.
Long file names.
Animated folder icons.
Multi-threaded boot.
Free developer tools.
Very good developer tools.
Keychain.
Scientific calculator, complete with paper tape.
AppleScript - Can control and automate everything by typing plain English.
CURPS printing
Bluetooth support
Built-in speech recognition
Speech-to-text
No product key activation.
Apache
Unix based - And the all features that come with it
The Dock
No Wizards.
Full keyboard access.
Hide Application command
Hide every other application command
Save as PDF.
No registry.
No device manager.
Easy to change permissions.
Software updating that isn't done through IE.
Universal Access.
Desktop slide show.
Built-in Mail client that puts Outlook Express to shame.
Stickies
QuickTime isn't slow on a Mac.
RealOne uses Altivec.
Smart window resizing.
Finder kicks Windows Explorers butt.
Easy to hide any tool bar.
Drag and drop installations.
Dragging a program's folder or icon to the trash actually deletes it.
Previews in the Finder.
QuickTime movies and DVDs play in the Dock.
Transparent command line Window.
Doesn't make Bill Gates richer. ;)