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Let's start with the positive, shall we?
I ordered a cinema display this week. I got the 20" one - I'd have loved the 23" but it was just too expensive
It's actually my christmas present but I'm paying some towards it too. One word: fantastic. Whether it's better than other monitors of a similar spec I don't know, but as someone going from a 17" samsung TFT to a 20" Apple TFT I'm blown away. The widescreen just makes such a difference to your computer habits. The bigger res is nice too. Watching a DVD up close isn't a spectacular affair, but then DVD's aren't a high enough res to expect it anyway. From a distance it'd be fine. HD video on the other hand is outstanding. Again, the widescreen means you can see everything so much bigger, even though technically the monitor is only 3" bigger. On the side of the monitor are 3 iPod-style touch sensitive buttons for brightness and on/off. You can set the on/off button to put the computer to sleep which is a nice feature. It has 2 firewire and 2 USB ports tucked neatly away on the back which is also handy. As expected the build quality is superb. A worthy purchase if I may say so.
OK, positive out the way. Onto the negative.
Unsurprisingly, Windows is to blame. What a pain in the ass it is, seriously. I'm stuck here trying to fix a damn laptop because Windows has cocked up just for a change. My brothers PC has all sorts of crap on it and it's spreading across the network (of course, not to my Macs though...). I don't know if that's got anything to do with it, but my parents switched on their laptop today and "WININET.DLL could not be found" comes up. It goes to the desktop then does sod all. I managed to download a copy of the dll from the net and copy it over. Now windows starts but won't bring up any Windows windows, like control panel, IE, or Windows Explorer. Great. The whole architecture of Windows is rubbish. I'm pissed off that I have to use my time dealing with fixing Windows because of it's inabilities as an OS. Why should anyone have to spend their time messing around with virus scanners, adware cleaners, bugs, flaws, holes? Having to deal with those left my mind when I switched to Mac 2 years ago. Yes, I'm bitter I'm now having to clean up a Windows mess again.
I ordered a cinema display this week. I got the 20" one - I'd have loved the 23" but it was just too expensive
It's actually my christmas present but I'm paying some towards it too. One word: fantastic. Whether it's better than other monitors of a similar spec I don't know, but as someone going from a 17" samsung TFT to a 20" Apple TFT I'm blown away. The widescreen just makes such a difference to your computer habits. The bigger res is nice too. Watching a DVD up close isn't a spectacular affair, but then DVD's aren't a high enough res to expect it anyway. From a distance it'd be fine. HD video on the other hand is outstanding. Again, the widescreen means you can see everything so much bigger, even though technically the monitor is only 3" bigger. On the side of the monitor are 3 iPod-style touch sensitive buttons for brightness and on/off. You can set the on/off button to put the computer to sleep which is a nice feature. It has 2 firewire and 2 USB ports tucked neatly away on the back which is also handy. As expected the build quality is superb. A worthy purchase if I may say so.OK, positive out the way. Onto the negative.
Unsurprisingly, Windows is to blame. What a pain in the ass it is, seriously. I'm stuck here trying to fix a damn laptop because Windows has cocked up just for a change. My brothers PC has all sorts of crap on it and it's spreading across the network (of course, not to my Macs though...). I don't know if that's got anything to do with it, but my parents switched on their laptop today and "WININET.DLL could not be found" comes up. It goes to the desktop then does sod all. I managed to download a copy of the dll from the net and copy it over. Now windows starts but won't bring up any Windows windows, like control panel, IE, or Windows Explorer. Great. The whole architecture of Windows is rubbish. I'm pissed off that I have to use my time dealing with fixing Windows because of it's inabilities as an OS. Why should anyone have to spend their time messing around with virus scanners, adware cleaners, bugs, flaws, holes? Having to deal with those left my mind when I switched to Mac 2 years ago. Yes, I'm bitter I'm now having to clean up a Windows mess again.
I think Mac is simply the best type of computer ever made as Mac's have a closed architecture, meaning it is virtually impossible for a virus to infect the Mac as it is UNIX format and no one ever writes for UNIX viruses anymore as it's just simply too hard, time-consuming, and confusing. Also, Mac's are guaranteed to never freeze like Windows does, ugh, that's what I HATE Windows the most for (besides the "Blue Screen of Death")! 
Macs can crash too, but they rarely do. OS X can 'bomb' where the screen goes grey with a bomb in the middle - I've never had it happen to me, but it can happen. Program crashes happen fairly frequently for me, but that's fine, as long as it doesn't take down everything else with it. XP is better than older versions in that respect, but it can still cause issues. For example, the problem I posted about. A system file just randomly being deleted by a program. That'd be very difficult to do on a mac because any system level changes require a password, period. That's another reason why virii are difficult - but not impossible - to write for Mac. Anything potentially damaging needs authorization by the user.
Nicer than the windows blue screen of death 
Mac > Windows