I thought about switching to Mac when I installed Vista shortly after it was released and discovered the nasty slow file copy problem. I switched back to XP and started investigating Macs - reading forums, going to the Apple store and playing with Macs. After few months of learning/observing, I realized that it's also not all that rosy in the Mac world. Users are also posting problems in forums, many times problems are excused as features, e.g. you can't do this or that, because Apple thinks it's not good for you. I'm also into photography and so I played a lot with Aperture on 8core Mac Pro and was surprised that the application hung on few occasions for no apparent reason. I also felt that everything required way to many mouse clicks. It certainly was a different experience and not one without problems, so I decided to not make a move and wait it out. Six months later Microsoft issued patches for the slow file copy bug, I installed Vista 64bit and never looked back. It never crashed on me, it's fast, it can address my 8gb of RAM, it has great new features. Yes it is missing certain features here and there, but it's hard to satisfy every user and it's certainly not a reason to call it junk. I still read Mac forums every now and then out of curiosity, but I do not see any ground breaking reason to switch - it's just not worth the effort to me. I'm sure there are people for who Macs are perfect and there's nothing wrong with that. We all have our preferences. I personally would like to see a stronger Apple so that we can have a meaningful competitor to Microsoft and therefore better products in both camps.