You mean like people who post 'news' about a 17 year old bug that has never affected even
one system?
Seriously, mass, have you ever seen a Windows 7 system? Or did your Windows knowledge stop with Win 98? Considering that you think OS-X is a GUI over UNIX, that alone proves that you don't know a thing you are posting about. The Apple OS-X operating system is based on OPENSTEP which was being developed by Steve Jobs and his company NeXT as a replacement for Nextstep. All of these various OS are based on XNU which was a combination of the Mach kernel and BSD. Obviously this is a greatly simplified description of the developement as the entire thing would take pages.
By the way...XNU is an acromyn for
X is Not Unix.
So stating that OS-X is simply a GUI over UNIX, is an oversimplification at best and dead wrong in actuality.
Oh yeah...I support 16 SCO UNIX servers with a total of about 500 users. So yes, I an familiar with UNIX.
As for Snow Leopard being '10 years ahead' of Win 7', if you mean in terms of dropping backwards compatibility with a large portion of the Mac installed base, those who run Power PC CPU powered systems, you're right because it may be 10 years or more before MS abandons such a large portion of their installed base. But other than that, most professionals consider 7 to be ahead of 10.6 both in functionality and security. And if you think 10.6 is an improvement, it has proved to be the buggiest Mac OS in recent history.
Of course you being a Mac fanatic blinds you to the fact that the only reason Macs are 'safer' than PCs is because there are so few of them in comparison. Usually the term 'there's safety in numbers' refers to large groups, in Apple's case it works in reverse. If you compare Windows 7 to Mac OS, a fair comparison seeing as there are already more Win 7 systems than all Mac systems combined, you will find that most security experts consider 7 to be more secure than OS-X.
But when you come down to it, the bottom line is that it's great that you're happy with the system you have and use. So am I with Win 7. But unlike yourself, and many Mac users, I have no overwhelming desire or need to have to prove that my choice is the better one. Use whatever makes you happy. If you have to believe that your choice is so much better than 95% of computer users to be happy about your choice, then so be it.