I don't have a problem with limited hardware. I've said all along the ONLY way to guarantee stability is with a limited subset of well supported hardware. I'd rather buy that machine than a generic, crashes every 5 minutes alternative

I was never a Mac fan until recently but Windows and Linux suffer greatly from trying to support every bit of hardware on the market. I'm at a point now where I'm enjoying computing again, rather than being frustrated trying to make things work. The frustration and challenge can be fun, and it can all be made to work, but you do get sick of it after enough breakdowns and/or rebuilds. Linux tops windows in every regard in that area (if you have supported hardware), it's more efficient, less prone to issues and fun (something MS seem to have forgotten, or never understood). OSX has similar qualities but with the polish and commercial application base that brings the best of Unix and Windows together (for specific purposes). I'm now using the best product for each of the functions I need. Backend Linux server, front end VMC, and desktop OSX.

If/when XBMC for OSX gets frontend tuner support my tuners will go in the backend linux box and the front end will be OSX and I'll be very happy to say goodbye to Windows.

My Mac resumes from standby in < 7 seconds.. This is how it should be

Cheers,

Arkay.

Yes, the sleep/resume function of my iMac is a short of a miracle.
Yet same hardware, but when I am in Vista mode it takes much longer and bluetooth keyboard do not work after.
If I ever get a new laptop it will be mac. With fusion I can run all windows apps I want.

The stability of OS X is just staggering compared to Windows. I've never encountered a problem that required me to reinstall the entire operating system or that I couldn't troubleshoot and solve within a matter of hours.

Ironically the media centre in my sig is such a fracking POS that I've been forced to use Vista on my Mac mini 24/7, and it is the most reliable media centre I've owned.

If Asus don't release the Nova P22 machine here soon I'm just going to buy a second Mac mini to use as my media centre and maybe one day switch to an OS X media centre solution if one ever becomes mature enough.

Look here:
http://dn-0.com/xbmc-trac/wiki/WikiStart
As Arkay say all we need is local tuner support.

I was actually looking at that last week, looks pretty good but I'm not going to give it a go until there's tuner support.

There's also The CenterStage Project which looks pretty damn slick and potentially a great media centre but development has been standing still for over a year.

I couldn't have put it better myself!