OK -- I'll jump in here. My first personal computer was a TRS-80 with a tape drive, so I'm not new. I've owned and used just about every type of personal compu

OK -- I'll jump in here. My first personal computer was a TRS-80 with a tape drive, so I'm not new. I've owned and used just about every type of personal computer since then. In 1984 I got my first Mac -- the first Mac -- and didn't use Windows again until I went to college in 1991. Flash forward to today. I haven't owned a Mac in about 10 years, and I've been listening to a lot of people rave about them, so I picked up a 15" MacBook Pro. It was OK, but I wasn't exactly blown away. In fact, I spend most of my time on my desktop, and old Dell Precision 360 running XP, which I have set up perfectly for my needs. Mostly pictures and videos of the kids, web, personal finance, but I"m also radiologist and all of the software I use to read studies remotely is PC only. I also do some 'light' programming, mostly Python and Django (I'm the guy behind instantdjango.com). I also have an old laptop running Ubuntu, which I ssh into from work so I can tunnel around the web filter. Long story short (too late), I ended up getting rid of the MacBook. I traded it to a friend for an equally priced Dell Inspiron 1720, which has a 17" high-def 1920x1200 screen and a bluray burner. I'm even running Vista on it, which is suprisingly fast and stable. Anyway, Windows can do everything I need to do, and it does it very, very well. I'm experienced enough that security hasn't been a problem. I can't really see any benefit to switching to Mac at this point. In reality, anytime someone starts talking about being more productive with a Mac, I wonder what the hell they're talking about. As near as I can see there are a few Mac-only things like iLife, textmate, etc...but I'm pretty happy with Office, Notepad++, and Picasa. Actually, I think Picasa is better than iPhoto, but that's just me. So, in summary, I switched back to Windows.