It has been a long, long time since Windows-using geeks could slag off Macs as “only good enough for those arty types” with any degree of justification, however slight. Back then, hard-core programmers stuck to their Windows machines like flies.
     
Then Linux came along and the real geeks flocked to it instead of an operating system that was a toy by comparison. When Mac OS X appeared, and showed that Apple had outdone the Linux geeks by making a Unix far better than their Unix, the more aware real geeks began migrating to the Mac.
     
Now, with Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2), and all the new software tools that come with it that are dead easy to use but that have been created with some incredibly cutting-edge programming underneath, the Mac has proven that it really is the computer for the geeks and normal people too.
     
Here is a quote from a Wired story on this subject:
“There’s an interesting thing happening at Macworld this year. Apple is visibly morphing into a ‘geekier than Microsoft’ computer company.
     
Apple is now the biggest supplier of Unix-based operating systems in the world—‘bigger than Sun, bigger than Linux’—Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced during his Macworld keynote speech on Wednesday.”
     
Now it is crystal clear—If you want to be a real geek, forget about Windows and Linux. Get a Mac.