| Well.....I recently converted myself, but was planning (and saving for) the move for months. Like you, I had alot of software that I had paid for and used on occasion. In the end, I wanted to get away from Windows.
I'm still a gamer, but I retained my PC for stuff I like to do on the PC (namely, flight sims and what not). My wife uses it all the time, but now we don't have to fight over using it (both networked thru a router, and I share the printer via windows so I can print on my mac).
Funny thing is.....I've used my PC maybe 3 times in the last month or so...I love my iMac.....best computer I have ever owned. Period.
Why I won't go back to windows.....well, I can't. My workcenter has slowly over the last 10 years moved from *nix based solutions to MS based ones. So, I still have to use Windows at work (with a few *nix boxes still around).
The mac. In short, it "just works" all the time, every time for the most part. Simply a joy to use. When you see frustrated users....most times they are thinking how they would do it in windows and never realize that the solution is SO EASY.....they miss the forest for the trees, so to speak.
Go for it, but I'd recommend a book like "Mac OS X Tiger Edition, The missing manual". Covers almost anything you might want to do, and is fairly up to date.  |