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I avoid templates, fonts, colors, backgrounds and images in my emails. Outlook is still a fantastic email program for work. For, as Ron said, it integrates the calendar and email together. In a multi-user office, all the calendars are integrated, enabling meetings to be scheduling according to a...

You're right -- it's an unsubstantiated rumor. But after a MacWorld devoid of useful product news, rumors are all I've got as I wait to buy Leopard for my wife, and hopefully a new iMac for myself.

Well bother: it looks like OS 10.5 "Leopard" is not coming until June! http://arstechnica.com/journals/appl...2007/1/25/6762

Thunderbird is nice, and I use it at home. But Outlook far exceeds it. It would be a significant step backwards for Ron, for business use.

OS point upgrades (e.g. 10.4 to 10.5) are normally $129. And iLife is about $80. If I buy a $2000 iMac tomorrow and then in April upgrade software at $200, that's a 10% bump in short order. It's like buying a PC right now without a free upgrade path to Vista -- not my preferred path...

Please, post your experience here or in a new "Switch" thread. Look forward to it. I need a new computer, but I'm holding out until 10.5 & iLife 07 is out -- I hate to buy a new system and then spend 10% again to to bring it up to date a couple months later..

No hurry :) I'm looking forward to an honest review from a serious Windows user about transitioning to Mac OS X. Those are rare, and often don't give much useful information about the difficulties in changing systems or the practical upsides (or downsides) of moving OSX.

As a college student then, I thought it was phenomenal. It was so far ahead of everything out there, at least in my view of the universe. In grad school it was back to ANSI C, no more GUI, etc. I never figured out Visual Basic, etc. But with the NeXT I was creating fun, elegant physics...

Carlo, thanks for the validation. "You're good enough, you're smart enough and gosh darn it people like you, " Dave says to himself. :) Mark, I feel your pain. I owned an Atari ST with a nice windowing system when IBM PCs were 16 color EGA and DOS. I developed on the NeXT throughout college...

I don't mean to talk trash on the Mac, nor ignore Ken's point. But I think to ignore the very real premium on their home-user lines doesn't help people make good decisions. *I see the price premium on mini and iMac, what I consider the home-user line. I've read the Mac Pro is better priced...

I'm waiting eagerly for the Leopard release to see what the new features are before buying a new machine. Leopard's "Time Machine" may be enough to get to buy a Mac. If, as I hope, it provides a simple auto-backup system that can save to a second or external drive, I'm there. I've never had a...

!!! Let us know how the transition goes!

Ron -- you're asking about things on which your day-to-day business and livelihood depends. And you've been asking them for a year (?) or more now. If you're truly interested in shifting your business to the Mac, spend the money and just get the answers you need. Two possible routes: - Buy a...

I've not looked at Mac shareware extensively, but my experience is there is endless freeware and shareware for the PC. For the Mac side, there are very good apps, but a smaller selection.

Ron, I don't think you're going to find the silver bullet answer you're looking for. For most people, it's an emotional or style choice rather than a bullet list of features. Having played with my wife's Mac some, I find that it's different; not always better, and sometimes worse. But the whole...