well there's no doubt in my mind that windows 7 is already better than Vista, or that Mac will surpass windows in the marketplace in the next 5 years. But you cannot deny the grown of Mac in the consumer market. I can't remember where I heard this, but apparently before Vista hit the market, Mac only had around a 9% market-share, but since Vista was released that number has grown to around 28% market-share. That's quite a leap and will only jump higher after Snow leopard comes out. (from what I've seen of it, Snow leopard is blazing fast! which is saying something seeing as Leopard is already pretty darn fast!)