Sorry to hijack your thread, operaguy.  I have a Mac, use Macs, and develop for them but I hate the fanboyism and arrogance that comes with Mac diehards.  I've been running a real 64-bit OS for several years (Windows XP Pro x64) with real native 64-bit software - none of that transitional, partially converted, proprietary crap.  My new machine isn't quite as good as the Mac Pro 8-core but it is a 4-core with 8GB and 1.5 TB of SATA II storage and an 8800GTX nVidia card - less than $3000.  No complaints whatsoever here.

Can't provide any experience concerning issues between XP x64 and Vista-64 as I refuse to move to Vista at all.  When they've resolved or removed the DRMs, new&exciting vulnerabilities, rootkits, network woes, software compatability issues, etc. I may one day (not).

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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