interject my findings please. I have been a computer nut since 1988. I have had just about every popular hardware option and OS that's been offered I think. For 12 years I drove nothing but microsoft based PCs. I started out with windows 3.0 and I now have XP Pro on my custom PC I put together. As some have said I too am waiting for Vista to work out it's bugs. It's my only vice, well besides AW, and I've just got to have them all (EG) and find out how they all tick.

But my best experience to date has been my 7 year old Mac G4 Digital Audio unit. I presently have Apple OS 10.4 Tiger on this old but trusty unit and I must say it runs rings around any microsoft PC I have ever owned. I did max out the ram to 1.5 GBs and I have installed a new 3rd party PowerLogix CPU (1.8 Ghz) in place of the original dual 533. Even with the old 533 in place it ran flawlessly. There's no viruses, no popups, no banner ads, no security problems, no slow downs, nothing whatsoever and almost no maintaince. If I have a small glitch, a program stops working or a system function warning is displayed (very rare) I simple turn the computer off for 20 minutes and turn it back on. In that time the subsystem has repaired the problem and I am ready to go again (if you want to get going quicker you can run the permissions repair program). Whether it is because no one writes viruses for Mac or maybe it's the OS subsystem software architecture I am not sure. The fact is major problems just don't happen on a Mac. In 7 years I have never crashed a Mac and for me that's the kind of computer I want to use.

I have 7 online computers at my house in different locations. My newest is the custom PC I built 1 1/2 years ago, but of all the computers I own, I use my Mac G4 as my daily driver. It is bulletproof. There is a very short learning cuvre at first, but in no time (maybe 3 days) you'll wonder why you never try Apple before. So when you are looking for a new computer take a look at Apple. I'm a big fan as you can see and I believe what they say is true; "if you ever go Mac, you'll never go back".