I said that for a couple of years... I just purchased my first Mac. Windows was always good enough for me, until... Vista. I made the mistake of purchasing a really nice system with Vista. It's really slow. The system is a dual 3.2 Ghz with 3 Ghz of RAM, TV tuner, upgraded graphics card and some other parts.
Before that, from newegg.com I built a 3.2 Ghz system with 4Gb of RAM and a Terabyte of disk space, a TV tuner, updated graphics for ~$1200... and I put XP on it. It was a nice system! But then I put Fedora Core 6 on it and it really flew!
I think Vista has a nice GUI look and seems fairly stable. It's just really slow considering the hardware.
I'm now switching our Windows systems out for Mac. The wife will get a 24 inch iMac, the kids a 20 inch iMac and I'll probably get the Mac Pro one of these days. For now the 17 inch Mac Book Pro I'm using is really nice... and it's real Unix underneath!
This is so true.
When I was in the "looking" phase, I stopped in to BestBuy to get a feel for what retail prices and offerings were like. What a crappy line of desktop PCs they have. (Why are they called 'Desktop PCs' if everybody puts the box under the desk? But I digress)
What kept me in bestBuy for laonger than was comfortable was Vista. What magnificent Eye Candy! I was like a moth to a flame. I wanted it. It was soooo beauuutiful.....
But then I came to my senses and had to tear myself away....
"Must...turn...away...from the....monitor. Focus on...the wireless...router display....UNNNGH!"
And I was free....headed for the door.
It really is a great looking OS but...well, you know the rest. I will never own Vista. I may have to support it for my job (G-d willing) but I will never own a license for it.
It's XP for me for now.
Since Intel Macs run Windows and its apps so well, I will likely make the switch when my wife and I retire and need to have a good system to be mobile with as we plan on travelling a fair amount. For these days, I'll go for the desktop beef. It's what's for dinner.