Just use a Mac and you will see...

I know loads of people that have switched. I switched last year and I'm damned if I'm going back to Windows. Whilst the Mac is not without its problems, I'm very happy to be out of the endless malware, security problems and other general malaise that affects Windows. And that bloody useless IE "browser".

That's without even considering the interface of the Mac which is just plain nicer than the gaudy Fisher-Price designed Windows machines.

However, if there's just one feature to illustrate the difference between a Mac and Windows it would be the lack of every damn application seizing the focus every time they need to tell you something bleeding obvious.

Ubantu - you can if you want to. Most won't bother.

As for Sony; they lost the plot years ago as they aimed their higher-end laptops at the child gaming market and left the professional business market in their wake.