I have had a mac for 2 years and I will never go back to a PC. It never stops me from doing what I want to do with my computer and my old PC did atleast on a daily basis. When I got my iBook it was on and ready to go in less than a minute, my mom's hp that cost more took almost 2 minutes to boot windows vista and then you had to click through bs just to get started. And I never have problems that I cant fix, but my college cant fix problems on their PC's with a whole enitre tech department. But I guess if you can run your PC like babystarbud then go ahead and get one, but I wont have a part in it.