Misinformed, much?
"You have to buy every little thing from apple, Video codecs, cd writing software, FFS EVERYTHING. THEY SUCK!!"
Brian Miller, perhaps you need to do some market research. I think you are mistaking Apple for Microsoft here ;)
Admittedly many PC manufacturers do bundle (often hopeless/crapware) utilities to fill this gap, but out of the box, a Macintosh can:
Edit HD movies
Burn DVDs, proper ones, with menus and so forth
Play a wide variety of media
Share media via iTunes
Compose music in the very, very good GarageBand application.
Not only does Mac OS have disc burning integrated, but all Macs ship with iLife, a suite of applications for "home" multimedia, and the total cost of OS X retail and iLife retail is literally a fraction of the cost for Vista Ultimate (rrp comparison, end user products) - if you want to buy it. Which of course, no-one does to get their initial setup, only to upgrade.
Last clean install of XP Pro I got, it wouldn't even play a DVD without a Codec, and Vista "Ultimate" cannot burn DVDs, cannot handle ISO/image files greater than 2GB (and MS, laughable, distribute VS Pro trials as an image of 2.7GB, which Vista dynamically resizes to 2GB when you download the recommended app to burn it to disc... in the end, I had to use the Mac to burn the disk!), and cannot play AAC/M4A files without adding not just codecs, but filters.
Your comments are not exactly relevant here anyway; this is a hardware/support issue, not platform issue, but I still think that you need re-educating!