At 5:55p -0400 2003.05.20, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote: >If you're a graphic designer or into music production or digital >video, or you need to host a massive database on your machine -- >you're not an average user and you need a different setup. And if you're an absolute newbie who has a new iMac and a new DV camera - in other words, the typical user that Apple foresaw/created/enticed? The "typical" user you envision is not necessarily the norm for the _new_ "newbie". The majority of existing users may well fit that profile, but more and more new users are entering the picture with little expert-ise and simple needs but those needs are tech-resource-hungry, so to speak. the Mac in its current incarnation has made the process simple. So I can readily shoot 45 mins of family life and elect to edit then burn that to DVD. But though iMovie has made the process straightforward and even enjoyable, the fact that large files are being generated has no direct relationship to the user's computing expertise. It is in fact more testimony to the capability of the hardware and correlates to the power of the underlying apps. The car driven testifies to the driver's credit-worthiness and the marque's engineers but says nothing about the driver's capabilities as a mechanic... -- 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]