>>24
I just checked the store, the cheapest "Macbook Air" is a thousand bucks. Looking around Newegg I could get a system with double the specs for half the price.

>>23
Oh riiiight! I forgot about Darwin! Though as a whole OSX is not free. And now knowing that Apple participates with the NSA in spying on the world -and they never had a good privacy track record before that- I just simply cannot use it. Though I will say that OSX looks very pretty. The UI gets in the way of me using it sometimes, but it is very very pretty.

Man, living in 2014 is weird. It used to be that people on the net would argue over what OS is best between Windows, Linux, and OSX, and eventually it would just come down to what you used a computer for and dogma. Now post-Snowden it's either you HAVE to use 100% free and open source software on your machines or you're helping the leaders of the *free world* to break and violate your humans rights. And if you're American, your Fourth Amendment rights. I was all for people using Windows or OSX if it helped them get their work done, they should have the right to choose what software they ran on their machines. But not if it *literally* comes at the price of their human rights. Fucking hell.