phracktl

OK, only halfish-joking But "It just works" isn't so true anymore. Mac apps - Safari, iLife, iWorks - are mostly weak or broken. Updates are like Windows - in the Gb's and constant.

Also, I'm embittered as the demise of the 17" MBP leaves me nowhere to go in Apple's future portable line-up. (Dont get me started on MacPro!)

For dev work: as others have said sort out XCode, grab Homebrew, iterm/dterm/total terminal

For web stuff look at Bitnami stacks/vm's. Aslo tools like sublime, Fake, codekit, charles http

You should know that ever since the departure of SJ, Apple has been determined to emulate MS software quality assurance principles

First things first - Upgrade to Snow Leopard from Mountain Lion.

Then set up Bootcamp to install a decent OS like Win7

;-)