Mac applications that are amazingly better than MS options?

[richpjr]

Depends a lot about what you need and blow away is subjective. The video and photo editing packages for the Mac are very good. If you want pro tools, check out Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio pro, Aperture, soundtrack pro, garage band. They just work well together and blow windows products out of the water. iDive is a nice video catalog program. Filemaker Pro is a great data base program. Hogwasher does news and binaries well, if you still use them. Quicken 2007 for finance.

None of these blow Windows programs out of the water. I agree that video and photo editing are good on the Mac (I actually use a Mac for this), but certainly have nothing on the many Windows equivalents. If anything Access is the standard for personal databases and Quicken 2007? That program is absolutely blown out of the water by the Windows version.

Really, there are fine programs for both OS's. The OS itself is probably more open to debate. OS X is more polished and consistent than Windows and so far, is virus free. But I use Windows 7 at work and it has come a long ways. Ultimately, computers are tools and you should use the one you are most productive with. Trying to rationalize your choice isn't a real productive use of time though.