Wow...this thread has been a light at the end of the tunnel.
Your first post has been my feelings for the past few years.
I am currently typing on a 40 day old $3500 Toshiba Tablet PC ( I love the tablet programs) and am cringing the thought of Vista....the scary thing is, I don't know why.
I am a big fan of the Michael Hyatt Blog and here is something he wrote and sums up my feelings exactly:
http://www.michaelhyatt.com/workingsmart/2005/04/why_i_ditched_m.html
"The best part of the Mac experience so far is that the technology simply works. I have yet to experience software conflicts, viruses and spyware infections, and endless tinkering and tweaking. Installing a printer, an Apple Airport Express, or some other peripheral is easy and painless. The bottom line is that I am simply spending more time getting real work done. And that’s what I was hoping for by making the switch."
Some of the questions I have are mainly concerning networking with other computers on the same domain which are made up of all different OS's.
For example my home network consists of:
XP Pro Desktop
XP Pro Laptop
Linux File Server
(2) XP Pro Servers
All connected through a gigabit network system using gigabit wired then a Dlink dgl-4300 108mb wireless router.
The Linux server is actually just a basic Raid Server. So I have the drives mapped on all the PC's. I don't directly access the Linux OS....I assume this is possible on a OSX but don't have a clue how easy or hard it is.
So programs are not my big worry....and it is not really computability either, I KNOW it can do this, but I don't want to have to spend months figuring stuff and tweaking stuff only to find I am 'make it work in a round about way'....just like a XP machine.
Thoughts?