Heh. Of course, one of the things I like about the Mac, being an old-school geek, is that you can drop to the command line interface and type a similarly arcane string of text ("ifconfig" versus Windows' "ipconfig", for the desperately interested) to get the same result.

It's the same string of text I've been typing into Unix command prompts since the early 1990s to do the same job, and it's why I like Macs -- the shiny is fantastic, but it also covers a very powerful, competent core with a long heritage that I already know how to use...

Incidentally, you can also find the IP address in the control panel in Windows, somewhere under networking, without the string of cryptic crap. The two OSes are pretty similar in this regard, and it just depends on which one you know better as to which one you find easier to use.