I wasn't arguing at all, nor was I upset with anything. The questions I asked were sincere. I "believed" he meant "Windows" when he said "PC" and they are apples (no pun intended) and oranges. I don't have anything against any hardware, unless it is proprietary toward one OS (like winmodems). But I hate M$ with a passion.
I use x86, Power*, PPC, PA and Sparc hardware, they each have their advantages and disadvantages. But when I refer to PC, I use the term referring to the hardware, not the software, and that is how I see it when referenced by anyone else (99.9% of the time). Same with "Mac". I see it as the hardware that Apple has put together into a computer system. Then you have the OS, that can run on that hardware.
On PC you have a wide range of operating systems that can run on it, Windows, Linux, SCO, BSD, Beos, Solaris, etc. On a Mac you also have at least two operating systems that can run on it, MacOS and Linux.
I couldn't fathom that he could really hate the hardware, and I would bet that if there were a Mac OS X version for the PC I'm guessing that he wouldn't at that point care one way or the other if he was using a Mac or a PC, they would function the same.
I'm still unsure, but I will let it go because he seems easily irritated.. And by the way, I'm still not arguing even if it appears so..
[ August 22, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]