I think both have their pros and cons.
My Mac sucks in terms of hardware performance on the gfx side and it's not really expandable but it's silent and nice to look at. The OS boots fast, i do have less crashes, no issues with viruses (but this is more due to the smaller market share instead of better technology but who cares as in the end it only counts how you experience it) and their update scheme is better. It generally feels more like an Amiga. I'm kind of limited on this machine but in a positive sense. There is less software around (just a fraction of what's available on win) but there do exist some really great shareware tools - just bought Audio Hijack Pro for instance. Gaming, at least the games i would like to play, is the dark side of OSX as all the games you want to play aren't available there.
My win machine on the other side is a flexible machine were you can put in what you want but it's hard building yourself a resonable system in terms of power consumption/peformance/design/pricing for instance if you're more after mobile components. Almost the whole software world is yours. A lot of rubbish as well but you always find enough pleasing apps and obviously the gaming situation is much better on windows too. If you're after emulation the Mac is way behind Windows with a lot of emulators.
From the usage there are things i dislike and like in both OSs like the wonderful easy possibilities to make screenshots or the pdf support in osx out of the box whilst in windows the explorer is much more effective to navigate and to organize stuff. OSX is built and priced more reasonable but you have to ignore the marketing and the zealots.
And so on...
Both aren't perfect and depending on what you have to do one is better than the other one. Leaving games and emulation beside i would favour OSX due to that it feels more reasonable in a whole. And the limitations which come with it often feel like a positive thing to me. I guess it's a little bit like if you are used to access everything on pirate boards and so getting all the stuff for free but having no time for actually using them vs. you can only afford a few apps/games but you actually have the time to learn how to use them.
My Mac sucks in terms of hardware performance on the gfx side and it's not really expandable but it's silent and nice to look at. The OS boots fast, i do have less crashes, no issues with viruses (but this is more due to the smaller market share instead of better technology but who cares as in the end it only counts how you experience it) and their update scheme is better. It generally feels more like an Amiga. I'm kind of limited on this machine but in a positive sense. There is less software around (just a fraction of what's available on win) but there do exist some really great shareware tools - just bought Audio Hijack Pro for instance. Gaming, at least the games i would like to play, is the dark side of OSX as all the games you want to play aren't available there.
My win machine on the other side is a flexible machine were you can put in what you want but it's hard building yourself a resonable system in terms of power consumption/peformance/design/pricing for instance if you're more after mobile components. Almost the whole software world is yours. A lot of rubbish as well but you always find enough pleasing apps and obviously the gaming situation is much better on windows too. If you're after emulation the Mac is way behind Windows with a lot of emulators.
From the usage there are things i dislike and like in both OSs like the wonderful easy possibilities to make screenshots or the pdf support in osx out of the box whilst in windows the explorer is much more effective to navigate and to organize stuff. OSX is built and priced more reasonable but you have to ignore the marketing and the zealots.
And so on...
Both aren't perfect and depending on what you have to do one is better than the other one. Leaving games and emulation beside i would favour OSX due to that it feels more reasonable in a whole. And the limitations which come with it often feel like a positive thing to me. I guess it's a little bit like if you are used to access everything on pirate boards and so getting all the stuff for free but having no time for actually using them vs. you can only afford a few apps/games but you actually have the time to learn how to use them.