will mac OSX lion work on my xps m1330 and not too hard for a virgin mac OS user?

[ImaNihilist]

Seems like you are still stuck in 2002.

OS X has largely taken over as the OS for both creative and technology development. Final Cut, Motion, Coda, TextMate, Hype, Espresso…many of the good web dev tools are OS X only.

Then you've got Homebrew and Xcode. All iOS development is done on a OS X. Most web development is done on OS X. Most video production is done on a Mac, despite the initial Final Cut Pro X problems (which have mostly been resolved).

It's really Windows that's seen as the "YouTube and Facebook" machines these days, outside of the corporate world. Most software on OS X is just better. Better designed, easier to use. If you want software that's hard to use an unintuitive, use Windows.

It's a bit scary to think about just how dominate it's become for engineers, since the OS is so locked to Apple. I suppose may of the dev tools aren't locked to OS X, but it's not like there is a clear *nix alternative.

You used to have a Mac pre-Intel days, IIRC. You switched right when OS X was starting to flip the desktop market. I think you have a condition like buyer's remorse, but for switching operating systems, and dont' want to admit it. It's cool man, no one cares. We won't tell. Just pretend like you never jumped ship. You can even get in with the hipster crowd and pretend like you enjoyed using a Mac before it was cool (and good).