Leopard or Vista

For gaming Vista
For just searching the web and music then Leopard.

Honestly, leopard is the way to go, I just bought a new dell, but If I could've afforded it (im 16) then I would've gotten a new blackbook instead :)

Besides, you can run windows on the side too on a mac, and isn't that what consoles are all about anyways?

People always bad mouth vista, but it works, well. maybe not quite as fast as xp, but has much more usability. i have yet to system crash my vista pc, more than i can say when using a mac for 10 mins!!

AMD X2 4200, 3gb ddr400, 256 7600gs, and a tiny 19" monitor :(

I'd go with XP if you can.

It really depends on what you wan't to do. If you want to do gaming get vista, for email/internet/documents/picture editing get Mac.