Apple launches new 27-inch Thunderbolt Display, Mac mini

That's a fair question.

I really wouldn't consider buying another branded computer. I'm still using the first prebuilt machine I bought, an ancient eMachines. I build whatever suits my fancy, but it's all mainstream. I thought the E2200 Pentium dual core was cool, and built a machine around it. A P45 / E7300, then a Core i3. Since the parts in a Mac are pretty much the same as the parts in a PC, I suppose the point is at least partly moot. I suppose if I could buy a bare Apple desktop case, I might grab it as a joke.

I have very little experience with the Mac OS. However, I regard it, and the newer iterations of Linux, (IE "Ubuntu"), as a novelty. In spite of the fact I don't game, I'd stick with Windows. I actually ran Ubuntu in the eMachines for a bit. As I said, it just seemed like a novelty, and I kept missing the boot loader screen. So, it was a pain to power back down, then babysit the reboot to get Windows loaded. (I simply wasn't interested enough to learn to modify GRUB to boot Windows first automatically).

To embrace the Mac OS, is to have the Apple corporation's will forced on you, and be forced to run through their very controlling software "maze". I won't even go near iTunes.

Perhaps because I also avoid P2P, I don't seem to have the problems with any version of Windows that many complain bitterly about.

Silly s***, like complaining about having to reboot with Windows after a program install, and not having to do the same with a Mac OS, I consider trifling BS. Windows is what it is, it works almost without fail for me, so there isn't a salient reason to abandon it.