I'm really not trying to be pedantic here or argue everything you're saying, buuuuuuut...

1) Windows does not cost $350 unless you don't know about the OEM pricing. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...rating+Systems Take your pick.

2) The thread was about buying an iMac, then you separately said it costs $3700 to run Windows on a Mac. You can even run Windows on a Mac Mini, so you are talking ~ $160 on top of the $600 or so a Mac Mini costs. No one will ever argue that Macs are cheap- they are a niche product for a certain type of consumer. But you can run Windows on a Mac for much less than $3700.

3) That being said, is the $1350 Vaio using Santa Rosa and has identical hardware to the Macbook Pro (especially the GPU)? It may, I don't know- so I'm not saying you're wrong about that off the bat.

4) There was no OS X update this morning, and I just checked now to confirm. Windows updates nearly every week though.

Anyway, I was really just trying to convince Lee to give it a fair shot, not convince someone who tried it and didn't like it. Not everyone has to like the same products. I just wish I had gone back to Mac sooner and not spent 6 years on Windows.