To address the server aspect of this....
You, having a *NIX server, should already know the difference between a *NX server and Win2K server. OS X is in fact a fork of the FreeBSD tree, which means, it's a UNIX. So you can just scrub that part out of your argument

It will run ANY server daemon that your Linux box will. I have my own Linux box as well, which I've had for over 2 years, so I think that my comments are just.
And now on to the hardware aspect...
I don't think that you will find a lot of Mac hardware "Fanatics" here. Mainly I find we are Mac "Loyalists". We don't bash you on your choice of hardware/OS here. We do make our thoughts heard, but we don't discriminate, and we don't force things on other people. In fact, I myself have discussed OS X on an Intel platform in iChat before.
For the most part, I think the Mac people will agree that the hardware itself isn't really up to par with the rest of the world. But the G5 brings it that much closer. We now have something that is comparable to a P4 in speed and performance. No matter if it beats it or not, or what Apple hypes it up as, or what they knowingly leave out of the reports. Doesn't matter to me. This is a tough market right now, and we could go on and on about what the other big guys do to make a sale. So benchmarks aside, and the whole "looks like Dell beat Apple after all" thing is just bogus. Dell sells the same thing that a billion other merchants out there sell. Apple sells a unique "Experience", which nobody out there can touch.
Sure Apple might have overstated their claim, but I think that the majority of Apple users aren't your typical PC users. I think we are more into getting things accomplished than seeing how many FPS I can get on Unreal. Which isn't a bad stance, but it isn't what I think Mac is all about. And from what I've seen, there are hardware improvements in the Apple line almost every quarter, so we are not far behind.
Now if we were talking about Microsoft here, it would be a whole different ball game
Welcome to the board, by the way.
Oh yeah, one more thing... I am Microsoft/A+ certified, I have 5 Win2K/XP, machines, 1 Linux box, and 1 iMac in my house, and I have been an NT/2000 admin for 3+years, professionally. So I am not a zealot. I am a switcher. Someone that saw the light. I use my Win2K machines very rarely, and mainly just my laptop so I can be the ultimate lazy man, and watch TV and surf at the same time. If any one would like to donate towards a new PowerBook, PM me and I will give you my address where checks are gladly accepted.
EDIT : Yes, I did read that whole article, and there are some interesting thoughts/facts there.