iMac vs Vista – Which should I get !?

I wanted to know if anyone know’s of any websites with GOOD reviews of WINDOWS to MAC users

I have a Dell Vista PC, but I like the look of the iMac – I plan on getting one soon !! (But they are VERY expensive)

I don’t edit photos, films… music or anything else – I don’t play many games either, the game I play is The Sims 2 (Which I haven’t played in a while) Usual I use Yahoo Messenger…and Social IM networks as well as LISTERN to music, and store Photos
some time’s do my home-work there also (But you can buy Word for it I’ve seen)

I’ve never used a Mac, we have them in College but I don’t have the “access rights” so it load’s with XP for me, via the Boot camp

So if anyone has done the move from a PC to a Mac, or know’s of any sites- can you share them here and direct me in the right direction

Thanks !

Why has life changed like this……

This is one guy’s review of the 1993 movie “Falling Down”:
“This is one of the most haunting films I have ever seen. I saw it only once, when it was first released, and I both loved it and hated it, but I can’t forget it. It affected me so strongly because I am a middle aged, white, defense engineer, in Los Angeles. Judging by the other reviews , people see different things in it. But to me it was the only film I have ever seen that expresses the frustration of us who grew up in the 50′s and 60′s in nice clean middle class neighborhoods thinking that someday we would live just like the Cleavers in a beautiful house in a neighborhood with trees and lawns, and then we grow up and get a job and suddenly find ourselves in a congested, smoggy, paved over place like Los Angeles where we are the minority race. Now I know people will immediately think “racist!” But what I am talking about is just the shock of such a rapid change in society in one generation. I think anyone of any race in any country would feel the same if their country changed so rapidly.

The first half of the film was extremely powerful in portraying this frustration. Bill just wants to go home, but the traffic won’t move. He abandons his car and starts to walk. Shouldn’t a citizen be able to walk safely thru their own town? But it isn’t his town anymore, he is an alien in his own city. He walks thru MacArthur Park, remember that song “MacArthur Park is melting in the rain”? I always thought MacArthur Park must be a beautiful place, but if you go there now you feel like you are in Guatemala, or a drug dealers convention. And the scene at Bill’s mother’s house is so true to life. A little old lady who bought her house 40 years ago in a nice middle class neighborhood where the kids could play outside who now finds the neighborhood changed around her and she needs bars on the doors and windows. I see that every day in Los Angeles, old white haired people adrift in a world they don’t understand. So I was very impressed that the makers of this film had the insight and courage to express this very non-politically-correct feeling.
But in the last half of the film they seemed to cave-in to political correctness. The scene with the neo-nazi surplus store owner seemed to be put in only to appease the liberals in the audience and to try to make sure everyone knew that Bill is not a “racist.” Also, there seemed to be no blacks in the film at all, even though the hamburger place was supposed to be in South Central LA. It is as if the film makers thought it was OK to stereotype hispanics and asians, but they were afraid to offend blacks. This seemed like a cop-out to me.

And the worst was the ending, where after the whole movie has made you identify and feel for Bill, the smugness of the police officer and the complete uncaring of his wife just infuriated me. After-all, even though Bill broke some laws, all the violence he did was in self-defense. So I have never seen the film again, and yet I still remember every bit of it, after 13 years, which is not something I can say about most films.”

Why is life not as good as it was in the 60′s? I grew up in the 90′s so I don’t know- I wasn’t alive yet in the 50′s and 60′s

oops…wrong category- this belongs in “society and culture”
The review is from here: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0790742780/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageNumber=2&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending