I finally did it, I switched to OS X two weeks ago, and I am delighted. It is utter eye candy, and although the Finder gets on my tits most of the time, the new ways of controlling the beast [via the terminal] and the preemptive multitasking makes up for its shortcomings.

The fact that applications can crash and leave the rest of the system untouched is 'fantamazing'. Luckily, Apple will be releasing a much better build of the Finder with the Jaguar release later this year [supporting spring loaded folders — yay!].

To my pleasant surprise apple took the liberty of installing the Apache webserver with the system, so all I had to do to get php up and running locally, was to whip up the terminal, write 'sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf' comment out the needed modules and AddTypes, exit pico, write 'sudo apachectl graceful' and b-i-n-g-o, php was enabled.