I want to sell My Mac and get a PC. dose that make me crazy?

That does sound crazy to me. Mac OS X is still a Unix based OS, that ships with an open source kernal, an open source browser, and plenty of open source goodies like Apache. There isn't much you can do with Linux that's not standard in Mac. You can find, download, compile, and install any open source application from the command line, and it's even easy if you use a utility like Macports. This isn't going to change any time soon, either. The App store and every announced feature for 10.6 so far are all optional to use and really only surface level changes. There is no sign that Apple is going to change anything about Mac OS X's developer friendly Unix subsystem any time soon.

Apple expects that in the future, only tech savvy people and professionals will be using full computers like Macs, as casual users switch entirely to iOS type devices (refer to Steve Jobs statement about "trucks"). There is no sign they plan to remove features that would alienate tech savvy Mac users, or force anyone to use the App store. I think the App store is going to be a great extra feature, especially for casual users, but it's not going to replace installing or compiling applications manually on full computers.

I don't think you will find more freedom with Microsoft's 100% proprietary OS, and if you switch to Linux, I think you are going to miss Mac OS X's out-of-the-box functionality and productivity, as you spend hours (or days) installing and configuring your software.

If you have little experience with Unix, you should just try Linux as a hobby first before diving in head first. You can install Linux on another partition of your Mac, or an old PC laptop or PowerPC Mac if you have one lying around.

It means that all through your Mac ownership you retained your sanity. Not only is the OS closed, the hardware is closed. Since Mac OS doesn't use drivers, the hardware has to be made to Apple's specs. That means that you can only buy hardware that works in Macs - even if EXACTLY the same hardware, running at different ports or different addresses, is available for Windows at half the price (or less).

I'd buy a really good PC (for about half the price of a half-decent Mac - maybe less than what you can get by selling yours) and run FreeBSD (which is what MacOSX is), Linux, Windows and/or anything else that can be installed on it. No worry about buying Boot Camp either.

Yes, but that is the way everything is headed these days. Every single company out there is attempting to tie everything up in proprietary BS so that you have no choice but to give them your money. Apple needs to watch it, though, because we need to run Macs at work because of the way they handle files. If they make the Mac OS to be exactly like iOS, then we will have absolutely no reason to purchase Macs whatsoever, as they would have done away with the very reason we value them. I just replaced my home computer (which was an eMac) with an updated PC. I would have liked to have bought an Apple, but they are just too expensive. I got incredible bang for my buck by going with PC.

It doesn't make you crazy; however, it DOES make you the very first person that I've ever heard of to switch FROM Mac. Just be sure that you get PC's that have components that Ubuntu has drivers for. IMO, the one thing that makes Mac better than Linux is that Mac users never ever have to worry about drivers. Otherwise, I think that they're pretty much the same thing.

Apple makes great products BUT, they are overpriced.

I can get a 15 inch laptop with 500GB hard drive and 4GB ram for less than $500

If I want the same machine from Apple, I pay $2000. Even the cheaper 13 inch 2GB machines are over $1000. They need a reality check

For laptop programming you're prone to be better off with a home windows situated pc. Most of the individuals around you'll be making use of windows (or might be Linux) compilers etc. And i acquire most of your path work will probably be home windows oriented. But you don't need to promote your Mac for that. That you can install home windows onto your MacBook. That you can simply use the Boot Camp Assistant throughout the Utilities folder. That together with a licensed copy of home windows and which you can install XP as a local install in your MacBook. Then simply maintain down choice when you boot up and you can prefer which OS you wish to have to make use of. The drivers for windows are located on the repair discs that came with your pc. However should you go that route, you could want to do not forget upgrading the hard drive. 120GB hard drive for a dual boot approach isn't a tone of house. You would wish to go and buy a new power (say 320GB and even 500GB). Stick that in, and use the fix discs to re-install onto that. Then install windows. But a Toshiba computing device is a pretty good option too. If you would particularly prefer to give up OS X and Macs together, then selling the Mac and going back to the IBM Clone is just not always a foul concept then. And again, absolutely more doubtless the form of computer you are going to stumble upon with others on your subject.

Windows hasn't worked right since Windows Xp. Windows Xp was great they should have just made Vista and 7 more similar to Xp. So I personally wouldn't recommend it but thats just me.

Pc's are #1 for business. Macs are #1 for play.