Bino's cheers for the message, you, Macster and everyone have been most helpful here!
Yeah, I'm fairly used to working deep within the bowels of Windows! usually to search and destroy Trojans in the System32 folder and then correct the registry etc etc
That's why I've had it with Windows, I've been hit by this bloody Spyfalcon virus 4 times and each time involved downloading all kinds of programs, booting into safe mode, and manually deleting and altering the registry.....
The amount of man hours I've spent over the years trying to get the machine to just work properly is crazy. Plus my PC before this just died on me one day, hard drive went kaput and I lost everything...I'm running Vista Beta2 at the moment and that made up my mind. I have a 3.0GHZ, 2MB Ram PIV machine. No slouch, but it's wheezing trying to run Vista. It's a power hungry monster. It can't read my Sound blaster card and I've had to spend days installing new drivers etc just to get it to work. Plus I read that McAfee have slated it over security concerns.
I'm sure it will take a lot of getting used to, I've been a Wintel man for a lot of years now. But it will be great getting to know a new system from scratch.
I need a computer to browse the web, access e-mail and read and send a number of office documents, listen to my music, watch DVD's. I don't play games except for PC Chess so I won’t have programs that will overly tax my system. So it seems like the Mac will be ideal, hope I'm right!
Funny thing is my wife is the same! Insisted the new computer can run MS Office apps…
So I got the Mac Office student edition….