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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 4423700" data-attributes="member: 14403">As others have said it really boils down to the applications you want to run.  Apple/Mac has a much smaller library than Windows.  If I just wanted a machine to read my e-mail, surf the internet, and write documents on then I'd probably go with Ubuntu Linux.  Heck, you could download Solaris if you like a full blown server OS.  Both are free.  However, I'm a big time gamer so Windows is the OS I choose to run.  For photo and video editing I've been told that Mac is the way to go... both my step-father and younger sister (who just graduated from KU with a degree in Computer Animation) swear by it but neither of them are gamers.From my small amount of experience with Mac (my wife had one when I first met her) I can tell you this.  MAC OS seems to shield normal users from getting into the guts of the OS where they can make changes that might adversely affect their machine.  Windows doesn't (Vista is a bit better about warning you than previous editions) but then again I can tweak out a machine to make it perform just the way I want.  For a casual user I'd say go with Mac (if you don't want gaming) but for a power user go with Windows.  That is assuming that you don't want to consider UNIX/LINUX in which case I'd say go with Ubuntu Linux for the casual user and don't even consider Mac.As an alternative you could configure your system to dual boot so that you can choose Windows or Mac when you power on your machine.  VMWare Server for Windows is free so you could also have Windows running as your core OS and then have virtual MAC, Unix, or Linux virtual machines to play with.</blockquote>

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