My experience with Mac products has been mixed. I got my wife an iMac last year. It's not horrible. Locks up about as often as the PC she used to use. A friend who does a lot of photography spent about $5,000 on a Mac a couple months ago. He has spent a lot of time on the phone with the tech support people trying to figure out why it freezes up. The only answer they have come up with so far is to turn it off, disconnect everything, wait, reconnect everything, and turn it back on. He does this on a regular basis. The wife's iPod Nano also has had its problems. First, the design is not user friendly. Second, some of the controls are intermittent. Third, and most egregious, it has no on-off switch. Holding the "Menu" button down and holding it will usually turn it off. Works about 90% of the time.

I was beginning to think that Microsoft was going to catch up to Apple, or that Apple was going to fall back to Microsoft's level. Then Microsoft came out with Vista.

I don't know what to think now.