Which is better, Apple Mail or Outlook?

I've been happily using Outlook for quite some time for a couple of reasons. One, when I migrated from PC, I was using Outlook, so I continued with it on the Mac. Two, it did some things better than Mail, like messages with pictures and particular text more often looked as I intended on other people's computers, Mac or PC, while emails sent from Mail often changed the font or took the pictures out of the body of the email and simply added them as attachments. So I felt that Outlook was friendlier and more logical and I actually prefer the look of it.
Only thing is, Outlook no longer syncs with my Mac address book. I need that because it syncs with my Iphone and it syncs over Icloud across all my devices. So now, when I want to add an email address from Outlook to my Address Book, I need to copy and paste and it's just a bit of a hassle. This made me wonder if it was time to move to Apple's Mail program. So I wonder if there are people who have used both, particularly the latest version of both, and have views about what is good or bad about each of them.
For me, the Apple Mail app seems better intergrated on the Mac (no surprise there), but I notice, for instance, that a picture attached to an email in Outlook shows the file as an attachment, while in Mail, it doesn't, but instead displays it in the body of the email. You can't see the name of the file, just an icon of a paperclip. Maybe no big deal, but a bit odd to hide the file.
In Mail, it appears that you can't organize each folder of email as you like it. The organisation is universal across all folders. Change the setting in Inbox and it changes in all of the folders. Maybe that doesn't matter, but it seems an odd restriction.
Anyway, it's a bit pain to make a whole move, so I wanted to get some feedback from people who have used both. I have no issue with using a Microsoft product if it's the right one for me, so this isn't about Mac vs. PC, just about the relative merits of both apps.
Thanks!

Since you have a tab2, obviously you think it's better than an iPad 2. If the reviews say the iPad 2 is better, are you going to return the tab2?
 Cheers, Tom

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The software I’m running is Mac OS X 10.7.2 on a 2011 MacBook Pro.
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- click on “convert” and choose a save file name. Choose the format “MBOX file (standard mbox)”
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