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Yes, good points, and good for Microsoft. But a sleeping Mac wakes up in about 2 seconds. And OSX had the copy dialog nailed down before. Not sure about multi-monitor support. I really wish Microsoft would make a real competitor to OSX in terms of perceived quality.

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My Lenovo T61 does the same and has done since I bought it a long time ago.

There is perceived quality and actual quality. OSX has perceived quality, but little actual quality. You'll experience that if you have to deal with projectors, other monitors and hotdesking regularly - it's utterly frustrating. Windows - seriously just plug it in and it works.

When you see a Windows "workstation class" machine (Dell Precision) with an uptime of over a year on a trading desk with 6x 1600x1200 monitors off the back of two Matrox cards, you'll understand what I mean. They just don't go wrong.

Weird, every time I've used projectors and monitors with a Mac I've never had any problems, but had significant issues getting a multi-monitor setup to work. Granted, this was way back in the XP SP2 days so maybe the situation is improved.

It did suck a bit on XP. Vista pretty much fixed it all to be honest. It's pretty much perfect in Windows 7.

I've never had troubles with multi-monitor setups on a macbook, I've been using OS X since 10.4. I've pluged it to multiple proyectors, screens, TVs... It always recognized everything and the image was shown instantly.

Same happens with an Apple workstation (Mac Pro, even if it's been VERY neglected lately).

"Windows - seriously just plug it in and it works." - biggest marketing lie ever. Do you seriously believe this?

Yes entirely. This is not marketing - this is experience.

If you pick decent host machines and decent hardware (read WHQL + decent brand) to plug in then you're sorted.

Buy some shitty B-grade clone crap and you will suffer.

"uptime of over a year"

So how do they apply updates?

They don't. These machines are not connected to the Internet in any way shape or form.

Well, I assume a sleeping Windows machine wakes faster than it takes to boot from scratch too. You don't have to shut Windows down completely every time you're finished with it.

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