Wrong. Snow Leopard only requires 1 gig of ram and it's 64-bit. Windows 7 64-bit requires 2gigs. And here's the kicker, OSX requires only 5gig of disk space (64-bit), Win7 requires 20gigs.
I have 4 gigs of ram, a lot of programs left open, and osx is by no means slow, even with my hacked version. My wife's laptop is running like a champ, also.
If you haven't personally tried OSX more than a few minutes worth, then obviously you'll think the OS is stupid.
Just like I don't like Linux. I don't like it because I don't understand it as much as Windows or OSX. Don't knock it 'til you truly try it.
You're a so-called techy. You could do this without getting raped by Apple.