What an totally absurb and utter pile of horse crap. What decade are you living in?? The Windows NT kernal (NT4, 2000, XP) is rock solid. I agree that that comment about the mac version being more stable is misguided and wishful thinking. I have a 2.2 GHz Dell Precision on my desk at work running Win 2000 pro, and I wouldn't say that it's noticably more or less stable than OS X. In the end, sloppily programmed applications and device drivers can bring down even the most stable OS, so each has a small amount of crash potential still. I've owned my OS X based G4 since April 12, and I've had only one full-system "gotta press reset" crash, while loading Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It didn't technically take down the kernel, but it did blank my screen making it impossible to get to the task manager. Some apps still crash, most notably Carrara, but as in Win2000 they are just tasks that die, the system lives on. You should be greatful the software is coming out on your platform at all, unlike the thousands of titles, hardware, and web apps, etc. that do not. As I've asked other Mac-Nazis ... HOW CAN YOU NOT be used to it by now?? Poser is a real exception. Software releases from all major graphics software companies ship simultaneously for Mac and Win. Mac users certainly aren't used to waiting for anything. The only software genre that tends to debut on Win or be Win-only are games. If I were a hardcore gamer, I'd buy a PC for sure, but I'm not, I'm a music producer. I realistically spend about 24-48 hours in a year playing computer games. Do they still ship them with single-button mice though? And is multi-mouse button FUNCTIONALITY built-in yet? Yes and Yes. No productive mac user I know has anything less than a 2-button mouse with clickable scroll wheel. In fact, most mac powerusers have one of the microsoft optical intellimice or it's Kensington equivalent. i couldn't live without my scroll wheel. -Adam