Seriously? Macs are as secure as PCs? Less secure, even? Does Vista ship with a ton of weed?
Here's a few pointers as to why people buy and stay with Macs:
-BSD
-Usability
-Safety (~Security)
-Durability
If Linux was as usable, I'd put it on the same level as MacOSX. But its not.
If you guys did anything more than upgrade graphics cards to play Crysis @ 0.57 fps more than your friend, you would know that Macs can be used from Grandmas to Kernel Developers.
Now, about the ("useless") design. Most of you dont ever see the light of day, and your PCs are only seen by your mothers, but a lot of people go out and about with their computers: When you're on a sales team, or presenting, or whenever you have to pull something out of a laptop bag, that something being a Mac adds points to you and whomever you represent. Everyone has a fucking Asus laptop, and it dont impress nobody.
And FYI, I have used Windows since it was DOS 6. Been through all flavours of Windows. I know them to the fucking bone. Has any of you dicks ever used OSX for more than 5 minutes at the Apple store?
Some burnt-out lightbulb said "It is nothing more than a watered down version of more powerful unix/linux OS's ". Watered-down? Was that an Aqua joke? Good one. IF not, then you must understand that OSX is less a distro and more a windowing system. Like KDE. Or Gnome. Just better. Why the fuck is it watered-down? Because you couldn't find out how to open the Terminal?
"It's the computer for dummies!" said another bright star. Yeah, the computer for dummies ships out of the box with Python, Perl, PHP, C, (S)FTP/HTTP, SSH/VNC/Samba servers. Mmmhm.
Bottom line is, (a) people who think that windows and macosx are just as secure are brain damaged and should visit a doctor soon. (b) the mac isnt a cult, it is a beautiful and usable window interface under which runs one of the most secure cores known to man (BSD).
Flame on.