[Flames Draft Watcher]

Made the switch to a Mac Laptop last summer for school and I don't regret the decision one bit. One of the biggest things for me is not having to worry about spyware. The quality of the apples is quite high, they seem better engineered than a lot of PC hardware. As for software, I like OSX better than windows and it allows me to do everything I need (email, internet, MS Office, etc). OSX seems to be getting faster on the same hardware with each release, windows of course has always been the opposite. Given how few features are massively upgraded (and some that seem to be downgraded) with each new version of windows it's a real head scratcher. Maybe it's because I'm in development but I have about a gazillion times more problems with software crashing in windows. OSX seems a lot more stable.

If you don't need any PC specific software then I think the choice is obvious. There will be a small adaptation period to OSX but it's not a huge deal, most of it is fairly intuitive.

I do not like the way Microsoft has gone with Windows and personally I think the poor quality should be punished. Microsoft can't seem to release anything that doesn't have a gazillion security loopholes that hackers are immediately taking advantage of. It's just not worth the hassle to put up with their inferior OS and utilities like IE.