The thing about Macs is.. Before the year 2000, they DID suck. Badly. I mean, Sucking goat without the goat liking it bad.
They were based on a 20 year old Operating System, which barely worked at all, and ran on slow hardware.
Then, Around 2000, something interesting happened. They released a new version of the OS, Mac OS X.
Mac OS X was based on NeXTStep, one of the most advanced Operating systems out there.. I mean, NeXT was doing things in 1994 that windows STILL has a hard time with, like drag and drop of arbitrary objects, not just text.
Apple fired their entire upper management, and replaced it with NeXT people.. In effect, NeXT bought Apple, with Apple's money.
Nice deal if you can get it. But I hated the Pre OS X macintoshes.. They crashed a lot, they were slow, and they never gave me the freedom I wanted.
Now, the core of the OS is Open Source, so I can tinker with whatever I want, the machine's use XML (text files) for all their data storage, so it's easy to edit anything, and I can pull up a console to do anything I want in the Text-interface.
In short, it's a whole different machine. The only thing they have in common with the old Macs in the name, and I wish they didn't even have that. I use a NeXTstep 5 machine, that happens to call itself Macintosh.
Colin "Old Unix nut" Davis