Well, I would normally read a thread like this and move on due to my lack of experience with real world usage of macs, but I can't resist.
I was on my buddies TiBook, and my other buddy had his iBook there. They were both trying to convince me that I was wrong in my opinion that macs sucked (they did a good job, by the way. I never realized before how my computer at home always got in the way of what I was trying to do) So, they were showing me the new OSX, and were talking about how it couldn't crash and was so stable.
Anyway, I needed to check my wife's email on a secure encrypted online service. So, I load it up in M$ IE, and immediately the TiBook crashed. Not just a little crash where you can forcequit or whatever, he had to completely restart the computer.
My other buddy gets freaked out, loads the page into his computer to show me it was just a freak occurance, and boom, whammo, his computer goes down.
A couple of months later, I saw one of them again, and he had installed an upgrade to OSX. The mailserver worked that time.
I only point that out because I really doubt anyone at Apple had any clue they were having problems with a very small mail server here, yet tweaked OSX enough to get it to work anyway.
That's a mighty fine OS you Apple people have, and I can not wait to get my hands on it full time.
Oh... From my experience with Alphatech, I can say this. He is sometimes a bit harsh or brash, but he knows the systems he works on, and has a good deal of experience troubleshooting problems on different machines. He also is an avid Mac and HD fan, but if a mac has a problem, I'm pretty sure he won't sugar coat it. Maybe not to the point of being an anti-zealot, but he seems pretty level headed. That being said, he explicitely said that in his experience, the crashes resulted from an incompatibility between the mac and M$ software. That's not unplausible, nor does it rise to the level of Apple brown-nosing. I mean, it isn't like he said that Apples were perfect and everything steve jobs makes (including his sh*t) was compact and novel.
Ok, got distracted. I have no idea what I was typing now or why, so if the above makes no sense, I apologize (a little).