isnt there another one for mac where you shut down you computer 9so its almost like a duel-boot?)

i think its boot camp

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yea, boot camp

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I use OS X and Vista. My Macbook Pro has Leopard on it, it's my main machine because I have found all those perfect apps for my daily routine (Vienna for RSS, Firefox + Extentions for browsing, Journlr for writing a journal, Time Machine for backup, Adium for MSN, iCal for scheduling, Word for word processing, Unison for newsgroups, Photoshop for photochopping, Aperture 2 for managing my photos, iTunes for music, Cyberduck for FTP/SFTP, VLC for movies, and VMware Fusion for virtualization, along with some other apps)
I've also noticed I am alot more productive in OS X, especially with spotlight and quicksilver. I've had my share of problems with OS X, crashes, random things not working, etc. I am an extreme power user of my laptop, my Macbook Pro has held up and I love it.

I use Vista on my laptop and desktop for games and any other windows related tasks. I use Vista a lot too, I don't know why everyone is complaining about it, I've had a great experience with it, and surprisingly, less crashes than Leopard! I do notice a drop in FPS over XP, but I like DX10 with Crysis on my 8800GT's in SLI.

I'm on my path to becoming a Network Administrator (Getting my MCSE, CCNP, and other fun stuff) so I have to have knowledge about all operating systems. I have used linux quite a bit, never really fancied it, but I can work with it.

I also use Server 2008 and 2003 extensively, but 2008 is just so much better than Server 2003, MS did a good job on it.

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I used to use boot camp. It really is good, but having to reboot every time I wanted to use Windows was a pain. Parallels Desktop has an option where you can load a boot camp partition so I used that for a while, but I don't now that I am on my newer hard drive. I never got around to putting boot camp on this one. Plus I have used my Windows XP serial number to many times.

Speaking of that, does any one know how to get a new one legally?

EDIT: DesolataX posted this before I got my post up.

Yeah I have noticed that since I have upgraded to Leopard, a lot of my programs crash a lot or won't even load at all. I really wish Apple would stop making useless things, such as the MacBook Air, and fix this problem. That is the only major grievance I have with OS X.

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Agreed. Tiger was ultra stable, almost no crashes, but whatever they did to the kernel with leopard really messed it up. I am disappointed.

I don't even get what the hype is with the Macbook Air is. Slow processor, non-upgradeable ram (soldered onto the logic board), no DVD drive built in, extreme lack of ports. The only thing it has going for it is its size! I could never justify a purchase of a Macbook Air.
But the Thinkpad X300 looks amazing for a windows PC. If it can run OS X (hackintosh) flawlessly, I might ditch my Macbook Pro for it. Although that 1.2GHz cpu might make it a harder purchase.

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I've always used Windows....

Please be gentle xD

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Before I bought my first Mac I always used windows (except for the odd foray into some flavor of linux) and I gained some very valuable troubleshooting techniques (since I would always manage to mess up something in windows, kinda on purpose).

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Yeah that is how I learned to use a computer was purposely messing things up and figuring out how to fix them.

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i also always used windows, except for in school where there were some OS 9 machines and a few OS X ones, and i hated OS 9 but then I used OS X and i was sold, from then on I hated windows

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