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I was an Apple guy from my first Apple IIe and worked with several
Macs until about 7 years ago when both work and the games I wanted to
play knocked me out of the Mac arena. Apple makes a great machine and
for certain uses it has no peer. But don't let anyone fool you it is
not perfect and has bugs and glitches all it own.

With all due respect, your experiences with the Apple machines of 7+
years ago are not at all relevant to the machines of today. The
operating system is *completely* rewritten five years ago, the hardware
is much better (and uses more commodity parts for inexpensive
upgrades), and the reliability, stability, and security model put
Windows (even 2000 and XP) to shame.

No, it isn't perfect, but if you're basing your opinion on the
old-technology machines, you're misinforming yourself. (It's the
equivalent of me disliking Windows because of poor experiences with Win
95 on a Pentium 90 -- no comparison with today's machines.)

At home I'm running an Alienware 3.5 Ghz machine with WinXP and I have
restarted it exactly 4 times (other than after new software loads) in the
last 12 months. So stability is not an issue and it is MANY times faster
than anything Apple makes today and it was a year old last December.

Alienware makes a fine machine -- hopefully that'll still hold true now
that Dell has purchased the company. And if I were a heavy gamer, I'd
buy one for that purpose. But I don't believe your speed claims hold
water -- the current top-end PowerPC G5 machine uses two dual-core
2.5GHz processors, and will far outperform the Athlon64 I'm assuming
you're using.