1. Same hardware at a cheaper price
2. no need for parallels
3. Vista is included in you're hardware when you buy then system...
4. Office is the only thing you would need to "buy" get the "home basic"/"student" version and you're set...
What part of Coon2000's comment, "Office on OS X blows away the windows version," do you fail to understand?
Bud.........I will not buy vista. There is no joy in windows. I buy Apple stuff for the quality. You can not afford it, I understand that. My offer still stands pal.
Hey Echo, off topic question. You seem pretty knowledgeable about the various Windows installations, so maybe you can help me on this one. A friend of mine at work, with Windows XP, clean installation. When you go to "My computer" and bring up the network drives, double-clicking on one of the drives doesn't open it, but brings up search or autoplay or something for the drive. When you right-click on the drive, the menu comes up with "open" as one of the choices, but it's not the top choice like it is on the computer in my office. I'm fairly certain that what's happening is that the order of choices for this menu is scrambled from the default, and Windows is pulling up the top choice from the menu as the default. Our tech guy came over and said, "just right click to open a network drive", but I think there must be a configuration option somewhere to change the order of choices in the menu. Do you have any idea where that is? Thanks.