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There is also TexShop, a brilliant piece of software that makes working with LaTeX fun. I don't think you have anything similar on Windows, or Linux for that matter. If there is, tell me so I can tell my supervisor who is stuck on Windows! Related to LaTeX is BibDesk, a bibliography manager that to my knowledge has no equal on Windows or Linux. Sure, there are commercial alternatives, but BibDesk is free  |
Hear, hear! Absolutely right. I would defnitely miss things like that on a Windows computer. The Macintosh platform is better than Windows because it allows a magnificent interaction of hard-core Unix with a very useable Graphic User Interface. You have all the strenght of the Command Line and all the interactivity and overview of Point 'n Click and Drag 'n Drop. You can run X11 apps alongside with Word and Photoshop natively without emulation. What more can you want?
I think that by sheer force of numbers there is MORE software for the Mac than for any other platform. Look at all the packages in Fink and Darwinports, look at MacUpdate: tons of freeware and shareware of all kinds and types. Both by commercial and by freelance developers.
Currently you can run 4 OSses on Apple hardware: Mac OS X, Windows (in Virtual PC), OS 9 (in Classic) and all kinds of PPC unix and linux distributions (and use OS X from within them with Mac-on-Linux
). Who's bitchin' about compatibility here? There even is Gentoo/portage for Mac OS X!
Last but no least the Mac avoids two of the worst things in windows: virusses and the registry.