Mac beats all for everyday use, I can say that having used both excessivly, with a mac it's turn on and go, with my pc I have to go through like 5 minutes of alerts and updates and odd programs that start up on logon which I can't prevent. But PC's prevail heavily on the gaming and variety of programs side, it's a good middle ground between mac and linux. But for the straight out techy stuff and hacking my backtrack 4 V2 of linux is the daddy. I don't want this to be a flame war, so if anyone says anything alon the lines of "But ***** is better" I will vanquish them WITH FIRE.