I wouldn't call osx boring. it's a pretty clean and polished system, and if you have a beard, it's got unix stuff too.
I have MacOS X (Tiger) for some months now, and it is really boring.
I am not Windows, neither Microsoft fan, but give me XP over MacOS X anytime.
Also I have the feeling that on my Pentium II 500 MHz Windows XP performed better than MacOS X on 667 MHz G4. So probably on same hardware XP will perform better than MacOS X.
MacOS X is updated, oh well, but I can not try Snow Leopard because I am with PPC machine.
