is out in October but there will be an upgrade program (where you buy a system with Vista but get a free upgrade when it's released) available as early as this month. Macs are good but are a serious cost trade off. A sizable number of Mac users are just using the hardware to run Windows partitions but at almost twice the cost for comparable hardware. The Windows 7 beta/RC testing (which I've been participating in) has gone well and has virtually none of the problems that Vista had (despite being built on the same platform.) With more viruses, etc being written for Mac, that's no longer a really good reason to go with them. They are more user friendly but you're going to need to have a Windows partition anyway so you may as well not pay for two operating systems or double the cost for the same hardware specs.
I will agree with Robin about the Mac tablet, however. I was really looking forward to it at the developers conference and disappointed when it didn't show up.
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