Vista Not all that bad

[COWBOY]

You tried to turn this into a pissing contest. 0.1% of the Top 500 super computers in the world run Mac OS. 0.1% of them run BSD. 5% of them run Windows based environments. The rest are split between Linux and Unix so if you look at it that way, we are both failsauce.

And the neighbors German Shepard still has his nuts...just in case. 

Um actually you were the one making bold statements.  Don't get all pissy because you got called on them.

If you like Windows good for you.  Sounds to me what you really like is building and maintaining your own systems.  That's cool.

Just don't claim the 620 you built goes 140mph and is faster than anything out there and expect everyone to accept it.   

If you were local and if I had a Mac Pro I'd be happy to buy the beer.  I'll drink and eat with any fellow Duc owner as a rule, especially the ones that are different or have differing views than me.    

Unfortunately I have about as much use for that much processing power as I do for an 18 wheeler.  My laptop and pickup do just fine.

[COWBOY]

Could you install linux/unix based OS onto a mac without having OSX on it? (these arent rhetorical questions)

Not sure about the "without having OSX on it" part but both IBM and Red Hat are actually providing their employees the option to choose/use a MacBook Pro as their official computer with the respective version of Linux running on a partition (as opposed to the Thinkpad or Dell they used to provide).   Some of my engineers are running Mac OSX, Vista and Linux on the same machine using 3 partitions.  One of them is in the process of trying to get a native version of Unix working on his G5 PowerMac but hasn't finished yet.  There are other ways to do this also using Virtualization software.

I run Vista in a partition only because the Company's Expense Application has yet to be migrated to the new Web App/Open Std they've migrated to.  I've also used it for occasional gaming -- One area that Windows still has an unquestioned lead SW wise is games.