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Originally Posted by AdultKing
When we had Windows machines, our non technical staff often needed our support guy to come in and fix problems with the network or with the Exchange server or whatever. Since we went 100% Mac he never got called again. It's a big factor.
On a personal level I've had Macs since 1984 - 1995, then went Windows between 1995 - 1999, then back to Mac in 1999 just before OS X came out. OS X was the killer, knowing it was based on NeXTStep was a huge factor from both a development and usability perspective. The only other OS I use is Centos on our servers.
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Edit: The support thing - especially network and exchange - is generally a windows specific problem. If your business ran linux, you'd likely have the same experience that you have running OS X. So that's not necessarily a bonus point for OS X, but more a deduction in points for windows.
When i first put this machine together, I was all over running Snow Leopard, then Lion. I personally believe that since I bought and paid for the software, it's mine to use how i want. Apple has yet to come after anyone in the 'hackintosh' community yet, and likely never will. I've never once been concerned about being held legally liable for my decision to use software that I paid for on hardware that I paid for. I have much more important things to worry about.
I ended up dropping OS X on this machine after Lion because - as with SL - I had some issues with my cpus running hotter than they should be. Now, if I were a master at fixing dsdt's - which btw, the windows world made it too easy for hardware manufacturers to become lazy with proper bios code - then i would still be running Lion on this machine. If I had a bigger voice in the 'hackintosh' community and could get some dsdt masters to help me, then I would likely still be running Lion. But alas, neither of those things are true in my case so I eventually had to drop Lion.
Personally, I now run LMDE on my workstation. Mint because I like their menus, and debian testing because I love bleeding edge. My servers run debian squeeze. I also have windows installed on this box but only ever use it for gaming, and sometimes when I need to run photoshop.
Now, if I could justify the added cost of a Mac pro with the same specs as my machine ha then i would likely just buy one because I do like OS X. But when it comes right down to it, for high end machines, there is no justification whatsoever that would make me kick out 2x the amount I paid for this machine just so I could run OS X 'properly'.