Given the issues you outline below towards usability and stability
you might be pleasantly surprised at the level of system integrity and design you would end up with. I switched over a 1.5 years ago and haven't looked back, infact I have even upgraded the family computer to an iMac and we've now become an all mac household.
I've got a high-end notebook (vista based) from my employer that is as quirky as what you note below and most of the time it just sits in the laptop case while I run Vista on Parallels on the MacBook Pro for the few windows apps I occasionally use. But, what you find out after using OSX for a while is that there aren't many apps on Vista that OSX can't replace, specifically in my case work applications. With the Mac versions being equal to or better than the Windows versions or like programs.
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Came pre-loaded with Norton AntiVirus, Google Desktop Search, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop Sidebar - none of which I want, so I'll have to reformat the whole thing and re-build it from scratch (grumble)... The screen is gorgeous, very bright at max brightness, but so very dull at anything less than about 70% brightness... Seems to be some quirks with suspend/resume - it just takes way too long, screen flashes off and on, seems sloppy... The fingerprint reader is a neat gimmick, but the software is sloppy and dysfunctional, I don't know if I'll use it. So far, I'd give this an 8 out of 10 rating as a laptop. Dell did quite good here, but my expectations were a touch higher for an XPS laptop that's eight months into Vista's cycle.
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