several of the applications i use WONT mesh with a mac. I had considered one, but its 3x the price, and was not as fast, or capable with graphics. it did have some nice lil movie making programs, but windows has a very comparable product now. If mac was able to cross the great divide and talk to my services that I currently use, I may have considered it, but till then...I am a windows gal all the way.

A neighbor just got a new mac and after having been a windows girl her whole life found it to be a learning curve, but caught on quickly. She had to buy a new suite of office type programs. pricey! She can afford it, so I dont begrudge her that. She only got the mac cause it was one of the rare few computers that would talk to her 3k dollar camera system.

I wish mac would come down in price, and up in accessability. They do have a great service of teaching programs that you take on line for free once you own a mac, and tons of great tech support. I will give them that.