Techie sacrilege coming, cover your eyes: Don't hate Microsoft: Apple sucks just as much Apple is my pet hate, underperforming, overpriced, over-rated and the mythical image processing performance doesn't stand up to many regular PCs on any standard benchmark testing, they have cool vendor specific software but that is it, plus, their only answer to the windows blue screen for years used to be a smiley face during system crashes. The main reason Mac is safer is because most hackers can be bothered to make the effort due to the limited ammount of products out there. And guess what, your keyboard is an 'option', and so is your mouse. I want to buy a car, but the steering wheel only comes as an option, you need to pay for that As for Unix, Linux and Solaris and all their flavours, they are great, but lets face it, you need to have a computer science degree or lots of experience to use them, not really for the average Joe consumer market. Windows is one of the few products out there on which even your gran can sit down and work away in a matter of days with very little training. They are a monopoly building bunch, but you cannot fault the product for that. They didn't become industry leaders for no reason, their product just worked where others didn't. [\END RANT]