Quote Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz View Post
Back to your earlier analogy, that's like saying FFXIV 1.0 (launch day) is 1.23 but with touch ups. It gets to a point to where it is beyond "touch ups" and more like an overhaul. They fixed most of the major complaints which I cannot recall all of them atm, but there were many. The only difference here is the fact that FFXIV remained FFXIV and Windows Vista got repackaged as Windows 7.
But I am not here to sell you Windows 7. I am here to state that the over glorification of Mac is redundant since it is not superior, it just has some die hard fans who spend $2000+ a year on Apple products making it the more expensive product. The fact of the matter is that the Mac user base is quite small in comparison to normal PC's but are just more profitable from the label. Yes, it has a better OS than Windows but that says nothing about the other OS's for non-Mac PC's. It's not just one side or the other, it's more like both of those options suck and you can do better. If you want to play FFXIV without work-arounds and without the horrid mess that is Windows OS go use Linux or something.

^ above post was made while multitasking. subject to not fully getting point across.
It does have a label value, but that's got nothing to do with it's superiority or not. When talking about architecture and design it makes smarter and better choices than Windows does. From the Kernel level, to the system level, to the interface level.

I think we may be comparing apples to oranges here.. because I'm entirely ignoring the fact that Apple is a hardware manufacture.. I don't compare Apple to Microsoft on this level because Microsoft does not make hardware, the only level that makes sense is on the software level. (on a hardware level your much more apt to find crap hardware components in a Dell than in a Apple system but there is such a wide range of options here it's difficult to really compare)