The speed and agility of the system is impressive compared to Vista and it beats Windows XPs boring GUI every day.

Anyway, let's just say, having tried it, I'd recommend windows 7 to everyone who still needs to use Windows. I myself don't see the need to, and am glad I won't have to pirate it or pay for it.

I went mac, and i cannot go back! It's like a dream, a paradise.. it's like a drug! You get more addicted on every startup. You will soon wake up eager to start your mac, even just for watching it! It's crazy, I'm tellin' ya.. when Bogdan told me how mac can change your life, I thought to myself "what the heck, it's a *nix system! it cannot be better than a linux, and linux ain't better than windows xp or 7, so it cannot be better than my precious windows". Now when I have to start into windows (because of work & school), I'm disgusted and can't wait to shut that thing down and get back to mac! My god, i'm so addicted to it..

Your ignorance shines again when you say that windows 7 is going to be better simply because it is the latest windows OS. Im sure plenty of us prefer XP over Vista due to the smaller demand on system resources. By the way, can you ellaborate more on this "ram thingy"?
I would love to hear more of your expertise on the subject. TOOL!!!!

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my company has saved over $820 per month over the last eight years (nine years in September); that more than makes up for the increase in unit costs for the computers. take into account that many of the enterprise level software we use are cheaper on the osx platform, we don't have to worry about running virus programs and countless other issues that are built into apple computers; we're way ahead. consider that things rarely go wrong and i don't have people with twittling their thumbs doing nothing while a pc tech support guy either removes the ibm machine from our office or causes my employee to be down for an hour and a half. there's a cost for that my friend and i pay for it.

as far as costs are concerned; we priced out a dell server two years ago that cost over $1200 more than a similarly equipped apple machine. i agree that apple costs more in most situations but you have to appreciate that you get what you pay for. apple machines come ready and there's less work to do in future.

Don't feel sorry for Linux users, we are the guys revelling in a hugely more usable and profoundly more advanced operating system while the rest of the world hangs on Microsoft's every word.

For one thing yes OSX is very nice, I am writing this on my MacBook and I buy only mac's for my home however there is a serious flaw in your argument which always seems to sneak in..

Firstly we have the myth that linux is always simple. Nope its not, in fact some of the most common OS'es like Ubuntu have serious flaws when you want to go outside of the box – try explaining how to add repositories to your granny.

OSX is also very nice, looks great, works well.. But I support an environment with over 50 OSX servers in it and it suffers from some of the same issues as Windows with other quirks thrown in (the quality of enterprise OSX backup software on the market leaves lots to be desired) as does supporting mac's in large numbers in a mixed or mac only environment not to mention costly.

Windows7 is going to be sccessful simply because its fast, efficient and its an upgrade from XP corporates will buy.

And its the enterprise world I live in where Windows rules and will continue to rule. Nope folks despite the best claims we in enterprise IT are not switching to Linux or OSX – unless you count ESX servers as Linux I guess, we are not ditching Windows as out enterprise server platform because there is quite simply nothing out there that offers the maturity, enterprise stability and manageability as Windows and AD – nada.

And there in a nutshell is the reason why Microsoft continues to dominate the market and why Apple has sub 10% global market share – sure you can plug a mac into an AD environment – I do it every day, but to really get functionality you need AdmitMac which isnt cheap and then you have to pay more for most apps and deal with Apple support (ugh) but its worth it – however you still need all that back end and when you have 30'000 users or more you have only one choice.

The obligatory IT professional comment cracks me up because you then proceeded to make the same mistakes yourself – By the way the maxiumum size of an edb file is dependant on which version of exchange you are dealing with and what happens when it fills is also dependant on other factors, so no points there but Id love to hear your thoughts on what you do when you have a MNS cluster fail due to loss of Quorum drive and how to recover from that..

Windows isn't dead, anyone who thinks that is not an "IT Pro" indeed its not someone even paying attention – market share and mind share will show you its not the case and thats before you look at Gartner's figures on Enterprise sales and installed seats. Windows has survived so many death pronouncements by Linux and Apple advocates its not funny, in fact the MS Sucks rubbish became boring to most of us a decade ago now and we just buy what we like or want.

People who claim tt be IT pro's always make me smile – Ive spent nearly 200 years in the industry and rarely use the term except sarcastically these days – There's naught that is proffessional about most IT workers.