I can’t stand Macs, but after trying out IE 7 I now understand why people HATE Microsoft. Wow that browser is badly designed.
You obviously haven’t tried Office 2007 then... where they hide all the commands you need...
I have never used a Mac. My refurbished Dell has served me well, but I hate all those infernal updates and upgrades, I know everytime I let something into my system, I am running a risk of having something go wrong, Java is bugging me to update, should upgrade my Adobe reader, I don't know if I should dl & install flash or not, I just get everything working, and they change it so you have to upgrade whether you want to or not. Real Audio I hate; they keep upgrading to make you pay and I quit so now if it is RA, I can't watch the video.
Right now, I got an external DVD burner, Memorex, don't know if it is any good or not. It comes with Nero6? software. But there are compatibility issues with Roxio cd burner which I love because it is intuitive. If you are going to install Nero, you have to uninstall Roxio. But Roxio's free upgrade won't work, "the burning engine has not been detected". Then there is a Roxizap you are supposed to run because it does not do a clean uninstall. Then if that doesn't work, I go to MS website and print out this awful stuff for backing up the registry (with Win95 I could do a regular backup & restore, not so Win XP), going into dos, restore, sounds like a nightmare to me.
I do a lot of graphics and PS work, and Macs are or were preferred by graphic artists. The problem is that there are more programs for Windows platform than Mac.
I feel for the OP. I really do. I hate constant changes.