I had macs in the 80's and early 90's. Then I switched exclusively to PCs mostly for work. Last year I bought a new PC built for video editing and right out of the box it would not do what it was build to do - kept crashing and video studdered. Software company blamed the Pc builder. Pc builder blamed the the chip builder, Chip buiilder blamed the software company, and round and round we went. And after all the assessing of blame, absolutely no one (and i mean no one) could actually fix the problem. And I got tired of talking to tech support that was reading off of the same web file that I was looking at, so I sent it back and bout a Macbook Pro 17". Since then I've picked up two ipods, two iphones, and four ipads for myself and various family members. (talk about a halo effect!).