I probably will get a MacBook, but I am leery of all bugs in this new hardware. Not to mention the high probability of bugs with the MacOS on the new hardware. Chances are I will wait at least a few months after they are in production and evaluate whether to buy that or a Lenovo Thinkpad, or maybe even an Alienware laptop.

Thanks for that point-by-point rebuttal--the Mac: Crash Different video was funny, but as the wife of a Mac True-Believing husband who will not tolerate anything but Macs in the house (and who supplies the household tech support, thank goodness), it's reassuring to get the rebuttal! I'll forward it to him. And I think I'll tell him about your journal--he will like reading the notes of a fellow Mac fan.

I like Macs muchly. So, I am a bit biased. the Crash Different complaints weren't far off the mark, but are easy to avoid once you know what to do/not to do.

Oh my gosh THANK YOU!!!! The link I had to that video went bad years ago and I nearly wept. I LOVE THIS VIDEO.

gondhir may have never had any of those things happen to him...

I can swear THEY HAVE ALL HAPPENED TO ME. Repeatedly! It's why I laugh my butt off watching that video because I could just as easily be saying all that.

And what the crap is up with the color wheely of doom???? My Force I'd rather watch paint dry than EVER watch the Mac color wheely of doom spin one more rotation.

Plus I can never run more than like, 3.672 programs with 2 windows open on a mac. On a PC at any given time I'm running like 5 programs and have sometimes 10-20 windows open, just depending on what I'm doing. Only time I've had a problem is when I was running Azureus, the java/memory stealing thing.

On a Mac, I can't do that (and that's just how I use computers, with everything open that I need at once), cause it crashes. And then you try to reboot it, and you can't, and the dock thing...

Anyway. :) Yes, it all happened to me. I'll shut up about the mac vs. pc debate. ;)