RA> OS X doesn't die. I have XP Pro lock up on me at work at least once a RA> day. And OS X doesn't look like it was designed by Walt Disney.
I don't know what you're doing to your XP box at work, but I just hammer on mine throughout the day, and I'm incredibly impressed with its stability (especially considering it's a pre-install on a Dell, which is usually asking for trouble in my experience). I don't think I've had a single bluescreen, and I haven't actually been forced to reboot in a month (although I shut down from time to time just to save power).
This from a machine that's running apache, postgres, and a bunch of other heavy-duty bioinformatics software that wasn't even designed for the windows environment in the first place.
I can think of environments for work that would be better suited for me, such as gnome or ratpoison on linux or, of course, OS/X, but considering the situation, I'm quite happy with XP and its behaviour on this hardware.
