I use PC's at work and have been Windowing since 1993. I have never found these systems as easy to use or as reliable as my Mac that I use at home. As an example, I have a couple of ollllld Macs (68K and a 603e) that still work just fine for most uses and work (slooooowly) on the internet. The OS (8.2 and 9.2) are nearly bullet-proof. My PC at work (MicronPC with gigaherz and megabytes beyond measure) running XP crashes once or twice a week.

I just bought a Mac with a DVD burner off Ebay (a G-3; OS-X) for $300. It is already out of date but will last anotehr five years. It is Unix somewhere down deep, which I haven't used in decades! There is 40 years of Unix programs out there that lots of folks are busily porting to the Mac environment.

I should get it Friday. Anybody know if I have access to root? Can log-on as SU? This should be fun.