bombastiator: I happen to like the space looking effect. Feels more futuristic, but chances are I won’t keep it for long.

Honza, thanks that made my day =)

Tom and the “debate team”: I agree far more with Joe, the fact is as soon as I switched to OS X, I’ve found new and exciting utilities to use, namely Quicksilver. I think the Windows versions (Skylight, and others) are clunky, ugly, and have very, very few features. That being said I do understand Windows more in a business setting. At work, our company relies heavily on Outlook and Windows for scheduling, networking, etc. I see that changing too eventually, def slowly, but steadily.

the majority of interesting little apps you find kicking around the web and want to try out.

I thought this at first, too, when I moved fully to Mac a few years ago. But what I’ve found is actually quite the opposite. 1) most of the “little tools” written for Windows are complete crap. 2) I have been hardpressed to find a tool or app that I used regularly on Windows that does not have a Mac equivalent. The only program I need to run regularly on Windows is MS Money, but that’s a major application, not just a hacker tool or whatever.

I like to think of it in this way. For almost any Windows utility or app, there are 100 different tools or programs you can use. 95 of those programs are shit – they look like shit, and the often function like shit. The other 5 are OK, and you might find one or two that are really good.

On Mac, though, you might only find 5, 8 or 10 tools that do the same thing. But on the whole, the form and function of all the Mac tools are much higher than the plethora of crap that is out there for Windows. Then of the limited number of Mac tools, half of them will be OK to Good, and the other half will be great, usually with a couple standouts that are excellent.