Try Ubuntu or Arch Linux, and you'll find out. Windows in general has hundreds of thousands of Viruses out their. Linux as a whole, has about 14 that can do any form of damage. On top of the general performance heaviness of Vista, you have to fork out 50 euro a year on anti-virus software (you can get AVG for free... but it generally isn't as good), which slows down your machine even further.

Well I generally recommend and use Kaspersky antivirus myself. It is a bit more expensive then norton or mcafe, but it is more built for advanced users.

Let's not forget that mac also had it's share of malware.

I don't particularly like Mac... it's a way too simplified. Also I get the impression that you are buying the computer for the sake of owning a Mac.

Also, for some reason Apple won't allow you to buy a Leopard boot disk, and install it on a PC.

So that you buy the expensive apple hardware and the so called "apple experience". If you really want the macintosh operating system on any computer (who would need this anyway) there are wyas that you can install it on almost all intel based platforms. I did it on 2 machines 3 years ago and it worked so it must be even better now.

They don't want to sell the OS alone, because they want to be in full control from the beginning till the end of the products course.

They excuse it by saying that Leopard is built for Apple Hardware and that it won't work on PC's... I think that it's a load of nonsense, myself.

There are a few good mods for Ubuntu to make it look like Leopard, if you're buying a mac for the glossy look.

Meh, I can't wait for Windows 7 to go on sale.

Linix specifically Ubuntu.... now has both Mac and Windows operating sytems simulated inside itself... so its definatly my favorite....

WIndows is failing... the way seven is being compiled, it looks as it wont be able to handle the major upgrades coming to HTML5.... it wont take long for people to notice that seven is going to be just like another vista.....

I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a six year old desktop. It runs faster than this one year old laptop running Vista