Hear you 5x5. I beta-test professionally and Apple has grown increasingly hostile to all software not made by them. I went PC when the new Mac Pro came out: I discovered that you couldn't really throw more than $3k at the Windows world to get the fastest PC imaginable while a Mac Pro that would beat my 2008 would cost me $12k. Now? Now Mac Pros are in "SGI money" territory and I have a laptop with a quadro card, a xeon chip and a 4k screen for $2800.AutoCAD being available for OS X is what kept me there for so long, even though Apple has managed to break it with every single OS upgrade.
Now if Apple could get back to making great hardware in the(ir) low/mid-end I'd love to come back, but I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future and my 2013 Macbook Pro was is on life support.
