I guess I need to play around with the Tablet functions of Vista. I've been quite hesitant to take the plunge not so much for the resource use, but all the problems I hear about people having, plus those I experienced when assisting a friend. I know XP inside and out, but when trying to do the same thing within Vista was another issue.
I cannot really complain too much about Macs either, that was just a little jab from a Windows slacker. I actually have a Mac mini and played with the system quite a bit in college; definitely a lot of fun when I found almost all my Linux knowledge applied here. I simply like all the software I can find for Windows, whereas I haven't looked too hard lately for the Mac. FYI, at my last college most of the research machines doing the heavy lifting where Linux, with a Bio-informatics cluster running Mac OS. We primarily used Windows to manage the user infrastructure, since that's what people used in their administrative functions.