thats been around for a while. its very well done and considering he is a mac user his comparisons are quite fair.
xp is a good os but its still made by microsoft. they just don't get it and never have. I feel the only sw of real value they have ever made is office and word in particular. every version of windows ever is just a bad copy of mac os. its quite sad really.
as far as hardware goes the pc world offers a lot. once I get to know the bsd in osx better I would like to get an x86 box and run bsd. x86 bsd with a fluxbox window manager is pretty awesome.
I'm getting a 12 inch powerbook, with 512 ram, 60GB hd, wireless, 1.33 Ghz processor, COmbo drive, Bluetooth, and the thigns a midget!!
Anyhow, two interesting articles...