I use a Mac at the office (G4, OS9) and Windows 98 at home. I'm no fan of Bill Gates (in fact, I'd often like to wipe his face with a cheese grater just for fun), but I'm far less a fan of the Mac. While it does have some nice qualities to it, the Mac is far less versatile and comfortable than Windows for routine functions. I hate using the mouse, and the Mac makes me use the mouse ten times more than Windows. Windows usually gives you more ways to do something so you can figure out what's more comfortable. I hate dragging and dropping, for example. In Windows, for file management, I can just copy or cut and paste to move files around. Can't do that on a Mac.
I absolutely detest the small Mac keyboards and stupid little round mice that all the Imacs were shipped with. I had to get my old mouse and keyboard back from IS&S. What kinda idiot doesn't put a forward-delete key on a keyboard? I use that far more than the backspace / rubout.
A lot of people tell me they don't have problems with Macs crashing. In five years' time, on a half-dozen different Macs, I've never seen anything crash MORE than the Mac. Perpetual network problems. Netscape 4.5 on the Mac doesn't even allow me to post on the DS boards; the reply windows turn to little unusable boxes.
I'll have OS 10 in a week or so; the machines that I've seen with it seem to be pretty stable. We'll see. Lest some Mac users with their usual religious fervor brand me an infidel, I will say that I dont absolutely hate the Mac. My G4 is certainly the most attractive paperweight I've ever had on my desk.