I will say this though; Good for you! You got sick of a brand and now you changed. Bravo. Which version of OS X do you use. The reason I say this is becuase Apple has relesed more version for profit in a year than Microsoft ever did. We went from 10, to 10.1, to 10.2 and I believe Panther is next? You can't download an upgrade...you gotta buy it. By the time you finish going through their monthly changes you have spent just as much as if you bought XP!!!
By the time you finish going through their monthly changes you have spent just as much as if you bought XP!!! well xp without crashes or freezes and elements of the OS that allow you to do great work without buying more applications like iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie and if you look for shareware you can find really neat applications for every purpose and most to all of them are around $10 to $20.
With 10.2 you could buy a family license for $129, that's 5 stations. If you have 5 computers in your house can you use 1 copy of XP for all of them?