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MarineGunrock wrote:

I won't pretend to know anything about OSX, but I'm pretty sure almost nothing is compatible with it. Like - if your Mac's HDD failed - I don't think you can just slap any ol' WD or Maxtor in there.

Incorrect. In fact, I can mount more HDs than you can. Fact is, I can drop every kind of HD into my Mac. Well, any SATA drive, anyway. I could always install a PCI card if I wanted access to PATA drives.

Here's the cool thing: it doesn't matter how a HD is formatted - I can read almost everything out there - yes including your HDs. Pull 'em from your PC, drop them in mine, and I can copy anything I want off them. I have yet to run across a HD format that I can't read.

Macs have a long history of being able to be well-integrated into the PC office. Why? Because they had to. I can't tell you how many terrified IT techs I've dealt with. You say "Mac" and their gut reaction is "I can't do that". The upshot is that Macs will pretty much work with any network protocol, any HD filesystem, and do it without breaking a sweat.

Oh, and of course you already know that I can run Windows virtually on my Mac. I do this about once every month or two. And it runs virtually, side-by-side. I don't even have to restart.