Macs are tools, as are Windows PC's, as are Linux PC's, as are BSD machines, as are VMS servers and so on. Sometimes a Mac is indeed the best tool for a particular job. iMovie beats the pants off of Windows Movie Maker, for example.
Having said that, Macs in the enterprise are a pain in my rear. Most Mac users think along the same lines. "It's easy." Except it isn't.
Many of the Mac users I support think that clicking the red dot closes the program. No, it doesn't. It only hides the window while the program continues in the background. This is bad when, for example, a user makes a change to the Java settings in System Preferences (adding addresses to the security exceptions list, enabling SSL 2.0 compatible ClientHello format, etc.), but the changes haven't propagated to the browser the user thought he closed.
Also, as clients interacting with MS Exchange, Macs are a big time sink. Every time a user's domain password expires and he has to reset it, I often have to address two or three subsequent requests to unlock the domain account. Mac Outlook refuses to accept the updated credentials for anyone except Huck from Scandal without a reboot. Same goes for SMB share authenticated sessions.
And because Apple seems to be competing with Microsoft for who can produce the worst web browser, OS X ships with Safari. Hello? Last decade called and wants its browser back.
Think Macs are immune to malware? I've had to clean nefarious extensions out of Chrome and Firefox on more Macs than I can remember. OS X is not a vaccine against the sewers of the Web as some users believe.
Anyway, it seems to me that Mac users tend to have a false perception that using a Mac is a suitable substitute for technological proficiency. Not all of them, not by any means. But there are many who chose a Mac as their office workstation because they expected less learning and fewer problems.
Oh, it fills my heart with joy when I hear the realization hit that they've just exchanged one set of problems for another. Except now they're stuck with a machine on which they had to compromise on the software they can run. Don't delude yourself. If it's got tech or tires, it'll give you problems. [/rant]
