I've heard a lot of good things from friends, that have gone to Mac, or Apple for that matter, my problem goes farther back, when I bought my "first" computer, it was a Texas Instruments deal, with plug in applications, you had only so many to choose from, and they were enclosed, so there was nothing you could do, except put in your numbers, no communicating with it, no internet, then I bought one from Radio Shack, no operating system, it was on a floppy by itself, you had 2 drives, and A and a B, you had to load the OS, then what ever you were doing, was on a separate disc, still no internet, I spent one whole winter, writing a program, to be able to run my business off of, track and store inventory, write invoices, and at the end of the year, total all my sales, my sold, my inventory, and print out something I could use for tax purposes, and it worked, all the programs available at the time, you could run General Motors with. My first "real" one, was a blinding 6mhz, and in "turbo", it was 8mhz, better, bit still no internet. They have come a long way since the TI model, but one thing I think is true, they do make "cheap" versions, the one's that are sold thru the box stores, personally, I'd find a good tech, and have one built, that way when you pick it up, it's ready to go. Bob!