"Apple recently released its second update to OS X "Leopard," and the latest version of its shiny operating system is now numbered 10.5.2. When I reviewed Leopard two days after its initial release I called it the best operating system ever made for the vast majority of users. I think that's even more true now that 10.5.2 fixes some of the first-release glitches that annoyed me in 10.5 and in Apple's first, quick, bug-fix update 10.5.1. Whether this is the update that can prompt hesitating Windows users to switch to the Mac is another question that I'll get to in a moment."

"So, is it time for you to switch to a Mac, or at least add a Mac to your network? That depends. I buy a computer to run programs, not an operating system, so for me the most useful operating system is the one that runs the programs I need to use. The Mac has the advantage over Windows in just about every software category except word processing and spreadsheets. Word for Windows is smoother and more powerful than Word for the Mac, and for the times I need WordPerfect, Windows has that, too. The same applies to Excel: The Windows version outclasses the latest Mac version, which loses support for Visual Basic for Applications macro. If you're a Windows user who doesn't care much about word-crunching or number-crunching, though, it may be time to switch."