[mitchntx]

Which platform do you use?

Experiences on both?

I have used a Mac platform to edit video and multi-media for almost 10 years.

Thank God Almighty that Premiere Pro was finally released.

CYA Mr. Jobs ... your platform freaking sux.

The OS is buggy and unstable and heaven help you if you have a motherboard issue ...

[sgarnett]

I am talking about accessing the underlying OS command line on the OSX machine. As I understand it, all OSX is the UNIX OS with a MacOS like window manager in front of it. Unlike Windows, with *NIX you can run different window managers, or none at all (all command line on the console).

Of course you should be able to access other machines from the terminal on the OSX box. I am sure that telnet and ssh are supported, and I would hope you can run X apps from another host if you wanted to.

Yes, but regarding Randy's post (whichever way he meant it) there are two big deficiencies in windows (among many others):

Windows does not inherently provide an X server, though there are 3rd party solutions. Actually, neither does unix, but it's almost always included. For that matter, there's no ssh client included with windows either.

Windows is NOT running any form of Unix underneath (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

At any rate, the point was that with OSX a Mac could potentially be two machines in one (without dual booting): warm and fuzzy, but with some very useful and powerful features under the hood for those who need them. Heck, the windows emulator seems to be fairly good on Macs too.