OK, Mac talk has drawn me out of lurking
Originally Posted by swise
...To give you an idea of how simple it is, I actually imported my digital pics into iPhoto and created a web site from New Year's Eve while drunk off of my A** around 3 AM New Year's Morning. A few days later, I stumbled across the new page on my web site, unaware that I had created it!
If that's not a ringing product endorsement, I don't know what is.
Others really get into the video editing and DVD burning in iMovie and iDVD. And then I know some folks who absolutely love Garage Band. Each to his or her own, sober or sloshed.
I think the "digital hub" stuff is really where OS X shines. A buddy of mine is a great example, he's a new parent, and picked up an iMac and a FireWire video camera. With iMovie and iDVD he's able to really quickly make some really slick looking movies (which he can push up to his .mac page or burn to DVD).
iPhoto is also, by far, the best solution I've ever seen (not to say I have seen everything) for dealing with photos. Organizing, putting up on the web, ordering prints and books, making cool little slideshows, it all just works.
My mom always had a hell of a time dealing with her photos on a PC, and after I got my dad switched over to a Mac for his business, he's got to kick her off of it because that's the only place she'll connect her camera now.
To the price poo-poo'ers, this may not be the system for you. If you're the build-your-own-PC-and-put-neon-tubes in it, great, but for a vast majority of computer users (and what I think might become more important, the current non-computer users), this box does all of the functions people want to do today: music, pictures, video, web, e-mail, and does it all well, and for a fair price. And it looks cool as hell
But anyway, I'll get off my soap box.
Oh, and Swise, if you want to wave any magic wands and push my order to the head of the stack, I wouldn't complain or anything
I'm picking one of these babies up to replace a little Linux web server I've got at home... no more dealing with Linux patches for me!