TCS, I earned my money pre-aviation as a MCSE. I did Windows, Office, etc, on hardware dating from 386s to pentium 3, on op systems from CP/M thru MSDOS 2 thru to Win98. I have also worked in the past on Unix, Vax/VMS and IBM mainframe environments
Two months ago I bought an eMac G4/1GHz/640MByte/40GByte for AU$1,780 running mac OSX, cheaper than any cash-and-carry department store Win XP machine.
And it out-performs any Win XP machine that costs up to 50% more.
No blue screens. Not one lost minute of productivity getting a driver to work, or finding the .dll that the latest program calls for.
Programs that are user-focussed and aware of each other. Superb graphics and audio capabilities in a basic machine.
Unfortunately the rest of the world is flooded with cr@p. This now I know. Took almost 20 years.
Wanna run PC programs like JeppView? Go to a garage sale and buy an old Win98 machine for the equivalent of one overnight allowance.
I pooh-poohed Macs for eons. I was wrong. Time to take a look at REAL value in a computer, TCS.