Those were on windows with about 600 gig music and its painful. Really I have just stopped moving much music because of this reason, plus I only have windows on an older machine I don't use much. Last time I tried to use it under virtual box on ubuntu it didn't work at all because of USB issues.

iTunes on the Mac, and iTunes on Windows are two very different animals.

With any luck iTunes 8.1 should speed things up a bit for Windows users.

I find that all the mac users I know are always waiting on the next update to fix some sort of problem. As an example, one of my friends cannot connect to a bluetooth network due to some bug that was introduced 2 years ago.

It's too bad you can't go in there and, you know, jumble some plumbing around and get it fixed.