Ardeshir Mehta said: >Uh ... I dunno about the rest of you, but my wife's Windows machine - >the one her office insists on her using - crashes, seizes up, or is >just plain annoying, at least *ten* times more often than my TiBook. > >I'd say that definitely makes my TiBook more of a VIABLE alternative >for general computing! That is not common experience so it proves nothing about general computing (what's that really?) outside of your personal experience. Macs have their fair share of problems. Macs still are way easier to use and get into, even for quite demanding circumstances, for people that are not computer-oriented, but Pros within their field.