Ok.. I can't help but reply to this. Hello, My name is Bill and I've been a Mac Addict since 1985. Macs were not my first PC. The Altair had that honor(No keyboard, mouse, or storage). When it came time after Commodore's demise the old 8088 PC jr's were pretty pathetic (C:/) compared to that snazzy little MacPlus with a GUI, Mouse, Dual 1.4mb floppy drives, and a (gasp) 40MB hard drive, and it Talked. Yes it cost more but it worked much better( It actually worked). As all of you surely know, software is the largest significant cost of any system anyway. Once you are in the software upgrade loop, the cost of switching platforms is a major consideration. I have never had a problem finding software of ANY type for the Mac(except games). I can remember many PC only people buying Macs just so they could run Bryce. Yes Bryce, Word, Excel, and many other common apps were developed on the Mac first. Now, do not think I have anything against PC's as I own 2 myself. You could not part me from my 2 lbs Libretto for any reason. I use both platforms everyday and push them both HARD! The PC's crash like clockwork at least once per day. My three Macs have not been rebooted in over three months. My PCs have been hit by several viruses and a severe bout of Gator that was a MAJOR task to get rid of. I have never had a virus on any Mac EVER! There are less than 100 known Mac virus and all but one or two are extinct. None affect OSX, not one. Yes someone could do one if they wanted to, but the point is they have not. As far as upgrades All of my Macs are extensively upgraded with drives of all kinds, ram, processors, tablets, cams, all the exact same stuff you use in a PC. No problem there. With the Mac move to Unix there has been a tremendous surge of open source stuff moving to OSX. The shareware scene has always been a large playfield on the Mac. It is getting even better. There are many Mac only apps that I have heard several of the PC folk wishing for on this very Forum. (BSmooth, Eric Wengers new stuff). I also run Windows on each of my Macs so there are very few apps that I cannot use and run on my Macs (again mostly games). Although I disagree that Macs are more expensive if compared to a PC that has ALL of the same features, it is possible to buy a PC for less. You get what you pay for! Much less! If you have a large software investment for Windows stuff it wouldn't make a lot of sense to switch, vice versa also. It all comes down to what you use and like, but if you have not personally used both, you really don't know what you are talking about. You are describing cherry pie without tasting it. Use what you like, spend your money where you will, but don't try to describe something you have never used( and that was very obvious by a few of the comments). Let us all get back to our art whatever car we drive!