Yep, yep and yep. Whilst I love my Macs and wouldn’t trade them for the world, there are simply some programs unavailable for the Mac to do certain things.

Which, of course, is why I love Parallels and Bootcamp. As much as I hate Microsoft Access, there isn’t a good DB program for the Mac out there. (Of course, I haven’t played with OpenOffice’s DB program yet, so my mind may still change on that.)

I mostly maintain that it’s the availability of programs written natively to the OS rather than the “ability” of the machines. Porting a program from one platform to another generally results in terribly bloated code as well as programs that just aren’t as robust in one platform as they are in another.

/me goes back to work on my Mac across the hall (and ducks the flying paper airplanes for this comment)