Thanks for the comment, but the Mini is my second Mac – I’ve been using OSX for months now on another mac and I have not found any of that, at all. I’m not saying that bad things don’t happen – they clearly do. But **much** less frequently than Windows. Hence my comment about spending far less time maintaining systems – I was actually speaking from my own personal experience.

Also, if I need to force quit an app, it happens almost immediately, which almost *never* happened with Windows. The “other issues” you mention haven’t been a problem for me.

And backup isn’t an issue for me. An outboard drive and a simple autobackup app takes care of everything.

I think that you will find that OS X will crash, or applications stall, in roughly the same proportion to Windows. You have a lot of applications open sucking memory, bad things happen.

What you don’t need to do as much of is: defrag, registery maintenance -none, backup, when leopard comes out.

But there are other issues: corrupt plists, annoying preferences, and a host of unix problems.

In addition, I have found that OS X takes more time to kill applications, unless you are very comfortable with the unix command line and the kill command.

Drivers are not so much of an issue, but OS X is not perfect either in this regard. You will find that you have keep up to date on the periphals.

However, all in all, I vastly prefer OS X to Windows XP sp2, but for largely asthetic reasons.

There was an excellent review of Tiger on Ars Techincal which you may also want to read.

Generally, I prefer Apple for largely asethetic reasons. OS X looks nicer.

So, I am interested in why you say OS X has reduced the time it takes to keep your systems running.