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108/125Mbs aren't official spec for 802.11g. Those are chipset mfg boosted rates.

I agree that Apple is very proactive and progressive with their version updates. They're doing a great job and adding value to their arguably pricy hardware.

And while I'm usually the last to defend MS, I have to disagree with you about Microsoft.

The Windows product line may have a ton of security problems--and so, yes, they release a number of patches for it. But I think the huge list of security fixes tends to dwarf the more significant, 'functional' items: Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, driver updates (w/ added features). Heck, even service pack 2 for XP added some useful features to the OS (to IE, and Windows Security Manger).

So yeah.. just like apple's iChat (MSN messenger), iTunes (WMP), Safari (IE), microsoft releases regular functionality updates to its software.

...that's not to say I use the software. I'm just being objective/honest about it, ya know? =)~

I call bullshit on that! Just because you can figure out how to compile webkit does not mean that Apple does not have to fix memory leaks. There are thousands of people that have NO desire to download, compile and install core components of an OS.

This is a commercial OS, not an opensource OS.

as much as it sounds like a troll, he's very right :O. Remember the whole "Firewire devices may drastically slow down after installing SP2", and the annoying security centre pop-ups :/

You (and many others) get still something wrong: OSX ist for Apples computers and will never be for something else. Apples computers will use Intel processors starting in 2006. Thats all.

Very true, Apple only intends OS X to run on "their" hardware, and fair enough too, they are a h/w company first, s/w second.

However, someone will work out how to get OS X 10.5.0 to run on their PC's, then 10.5.1 will come out and break that, so they will work that out and so on. The experience will never be quite the same as using it on Apple h/w due to 3rd party componets that Apple don't support, so some people will get a false sence of how good OS/X is, but there ya go...

My hope is that Apple price their h/w to make the choice of going with Mactel over Wintel that much harder (some of the rumors I've heard are already suggesting this with the iBook).

I do understand that for those who love to build their own PC's using the latest and greatest components, then Apple probably won't be an option, or for the uber gamer for that matter, but for the rest of us they might.

they reject my requests for that with: "work around exists"

Everytime news is posted about Apple you can find two questions: why is the hardware so expensive? Why do they not support Ogg?

Ogg can be downloaded and installed as a Quicktime component and so it is available for all applications in OS X which use Quicktime (all?).
If you want to use Ogg on your iPod, you are out of luck. But even the Ogg developers said that in the current form the codec is not easy to implement on embedded devices. So give Apple a feedback about Ogg and ask some thousand people to do the same and maybe, maybe the 7th generation iPod will support Ogg :-)

You can get WMV/WMA for Quicktime with flip4mac and DivX from hmm DivX. I really I don't see Ogg/Matroska for "power users". Those power users Apple targets are using DVD authoring software or other video editing tools and there is by far to sign of Ogg/Matroska. So Ogg/Matroska is only for geeks :-). For the rest of your post I have nothing to add because it is sooooooo true. Have you ever tried to view a non Quicktime movie on a G3 machine?

I like your take on 'power' user. I think that your view is more in line with the geek user. I often deal with video files that are over 100 Gigabytes in size, and let me tell you that only QuickTime is able to handle them with any aplomb.
Try working in lossless formats for a while and then tell me how bad QuickTime is compared to other containers.
Geek != Power

Very true. In windows and Linux Geek == Power, he assumed this is the same in OSX. Not true at all. OSX Geeks write apps, OSX Power users use apps to do some work.