Yes, I agree that ME was a horror. Give it a little memory to run something, and it never, ever gave it back!
For my birthday last year, my son (God bless him) gave me a MacMini, running OS X. I've since upgraded to the MacIntel Mini (I gave him back the PowerPC one he gave me....hmmm, I wonder if that was planned?) with an Apple 23" display and bluetooth wireless mighty mouse and keyboard. My God, but that thing is sweeet! You can't break Tiger with a ballpeen hammer! I also have a Dell, fully tricked out with a 3.6 Pentium 4 chip and enough storage and video to be able to handle anything that Vista might throw at it. I could run NORAD on my Dell, for cryin' out loud.
Here's my dilemma. I can run something called Parallels on the Mac, and split the harddrive so I can boot once, and "flip" from Tiger (well, Leopard) to XP and back again all day long without having to reboot. Does it get any better than that? But, Stardock isn't "for" the Mac, so there's the rub. I mean, I LOVE the skins and stuff, but ya gotta give OS X it's due. It can do anything that Windows can, except, maybe run Winzip. (It has its own called Stuffit.)
Which is better, then? I'll tell you this. When my current MacIntel gets older in a couple of years, I'll be looking at the 24" iMac as a replacement for everything because it'll be able to run both operating systems, and knowing the way that Apple does these things, it'll run just fine, thank you.
I'll never buy another Windows-based desktop again.