I've gotta say, hav­ing used PC's — and to a much smaller extent, Linux envi­ron­ments — for the past sev­eral years exclu­sively, Leop­ard is a damn fine oper­at­ing sys­tem.  You've got to respect soft­ware that runs as well as it does on hard­ware it's not even sup­posed to run on.

A few of my friends are Apple fan­peeps, and I think I'm start­ing to under­stand why.  Although I will agree with pun­dit Paul Thur­rott that OS X, despite Apple billing it as "for the rest of us," is actu­ally geared toward fairly savvy users for any­thing that's done with apps that don't start with "i".  But it's pretty darn nifty, and I per­son­ally can't wait to start doing some devel­op­ment on it, as web dev is actu­ally sup­posed to be bet­ter in OS X thanks to some of the built-in tools and the UNIX architecture.

That being said, oh Apple-fan-friends, can you rec­om­mend some good Mac apps for my quasiMac?