I suppose I'm clearly a Johnny-come-lately because I think of Macs as laptops. So while I use OS X a lot, I still do things that require larger screens or precision cursor control on the PC, because it's a desktop box.

I have legacy application considerations--I own Office and Photoshop and Paintshop for Windows and I can't see myself buying equivalents for OS X (I've tried the freeware, and it ain't cutting it), so I'm not going to be an OS X only house any time soon. But I should probably make a plan to get onto Windows 7. I am not happy with Vista still.

ND, but you're a superstar! I am a mere mortal.

The only thing I haven't managed to figure out on this new machine, despite its huge screen, is that this little posting box is the same size as it is on my iPhone! I made the rest of the page font big, and fooled with other appearance properties, but this sucks.

ita, I think you will really like Win 7.

I used Windows 7 for an evening when setting up my sisters new laptop (64 bit for $800 dollars--I was startled when it turned out I'd downloaded the wrong iTunes), and it was much easier to do than her Vista laptop, especially the networking. I still have networking craziness with my desktop, and it's not like my home network is a moving target it. I just resent it now. I miss what came before.

Heh. I'm so slow that it's only YESTERDAY (after I"ve had the thing since August) that I finally managed ot figure out how to click on things while browsing the web on my iPhone so that I can open them in a new page, rather than always having to go there, and then hit "back" a lot. DUH. I was like "there's GOTTA be a way..."

I've liked Win 7, it has a lot of nice touches. It's done some stuff like automatically finding and installing the driver for my printer when I plugged in it. Hopefully, Microsoft can get more of that automatic configuration stuff going in Win 8. I had a few minor compatibility problems with the pre-release version, but not with the release version even though I went from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7.

I was like "there's GOTTA be a way..."

That's often a sign that yes, there is a way....

Yeah, ita, setting up my (wirelessly networked) printer usually means searching for drivers, etc (the software that came with it sucks, so I do a way stripped install). But not with Win 7. Autooooomatic.

meara, I'm constantly wishing the Blackberry could do that.

I'm curious to try Windows 7. I can switch back and forth between the two OSes pretty easily as I have been doing so for well over ten years now. Though after falling head over heels in love with Leopard, I generally find Windows ugly and brutish. My understanding is that Windows 7 is a real improvement in that regard.

Ya, I'm a late adopter of the Mac. I started out on the TRS-80 model III, where you had to write code for each pixel "let x= blah and y=blah". Then in 9th grade, I was introduced to the 128k Mac, with a mouse! And MacPaint! And never looked back. I guess that all started around 1985 or so.

Um.... o_a, if you started using a 128k Mac in 1985 "or so", you really are not allowed to call yourself a "late adopter".

... how DO you do that, meara?

I, like ita and tommyrot, came to Macs through Linux. Pre-OSX I hated Macs and Windows equally, though Mac OS 9 was so incredibly dated by the time it ended that I probably hated it a tad more. When I think of the fact that Mac OS 9 was still being sold at the same time Windows 2000 (a pretty decent OS, I thought, and my favorite Windows until XP SP2 in classic view) was catching on I actually boggle a bit.

In early Mac years I was a child/pre-teen and used whatever my parents had, which happened to be an Apple II followed by various DOS/Windows machines. At 16 I built my own computer, installed Windows 98 and Slackware Linux on it, and found myself using Slackware a lot more often. A year later I wiped the Windows partition, changed to Gentoo Linux, and stuck with that until I was in college, when i picked up an old iBook G4 for portability. LOVED it (though i started off running X-windows on it a LOT), bought a G5 PowerMac the next year, and have been a Machead ever since.

I am really, really liking Windows 7 right now, though. In fact, when i boot into Windows instead of OS X, the only thing I miss at the moment is Pages, which I use for writing a lot of my worksheets as I hate Word 2008 on Macs. I could probably transition to a more modern Windows Word pretty easily if I wanted to pay for it, but I don't. I'll still boot to OS X for productivity work and keep Windows around for games and occasional odd software programs (video encoders and such).