Moved over to the dark side (iMac)

I'm not sure about the conversion process, I've been with the platform for quite some time.

However, shouldn't it already have Lion on it?  Usually they start shipping new models preloaded with the latest OS on the day it was released.  Click the Apple icon in the upper left hand corner of the screen and select "About This Mac" from the drop-down menu.  You'll get a dialog box showing the installed version.

If you don't have 10.7 installed, contact Apple.  They'll probably give you a free copy, since I think the policy is to give out free copies for buyers within a 30 day window or so.

One app I really enjoy is SeaMonkey.  It's FireFox tuned specifically for OS X.  It uses Firefox extensions and, anecdotally, I think it runs a bit better.  I like its integrated email, too, it's a lot like the old Mozilla.

Also, welcome aboard!  I've been using Macs daily since '88 and got my first one in '91.  They've been good to me.  I'm still a little partial to System 6.0.7, but like OS X just fine.

I use both.  A decent PC laptop and I won a core 2 duo iMac in a competition a few years ago.  The mac seems less practical for me, just because of the limited amount of apps etc.  As for recommending apps, pixelmator ( GPU based photoshop), If you don't have an iPod, I wouldn't recommend iTunes for music playing, firefox or another web browser such as Firefox.  If you like games, get Steam.  I don't know what you like or what you would use the computer for but Microsoft Office would come in handy.

I use both an Apple and a PC. I started to learn about Apple computers in 2006 after a long run of PC crashes. They are more stable in some ways. I find that I use both in my daily life. The Apple seems to sound a little better running a USB audio interface to a DAC headphone amp.

I do photography and have just this week looked at some big I-Mac machines. They made my photography special. Things like this is why for years you have met people in audio or graphic design who swear by Apple.

PCs still have there place too and as your learning curve moves along you may miss a couple of things PCs do well. I had used PCs for 10 years before getting an Apple so I was pretty set in my ways though.

Congrats :) The Mac is a nice system where everything just works without too much fuss.  I use a Mac for work and PC for home.  Unsurprisingly enough, the Mac is rock solid except for Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint which all crash quite frequently (what do these all have in common?).  Firefox also seems to have picked up some nasty bugs over the last several months which have still gone unresolved in Mozilla's support forum.  It's too bad since Office 2007 is very stable on Win7 64-bit.

I really liked Finder 6 and 7, and my LC III is still one of my favorite computers of all time.

Anyway, about the Mac, I guess it depends on what you're going to use it for.  Native Mac support for games is light years beyond what it used to be back in the LC II/III-era.  Team Fortress 2 is a lot of fun and a nice graphical showcase.  The small Mac application library is always a downside, though, and I honestly just don't have much to do on my Mac.  There are a lot more fun sourceforge projects to play around with on the PC, but I guess you could use bootcamp.  My developer friends basically treat their Macs like a pretty GUI over 'nix and spend most of their time in shell.

I am still running 10.6.8 on my 21.5 iMac, do not plan to move to 10.7 until it has at least a .1 or .2 following the 10.7. This to have Apple correct any issues with a the new software. 

You should get Lion for free if you purchased it in the last couple of months. All you have to do is fill out the information and you'll get a code.

Still don't think there's anything on Mac that's as good as EAC, though.