well, at least your reasons for not liking it are legitamate and have to do with past experience. I guess it just amounts to personal taste. I like macs because they are great tools for video/sound editing. It's what I do so I like macs alot. i also like the design and boldness of the color on macs. That mainly has to do with my art background. As far as experiences go, i've never had to adjust the firewire or do any sort of upgrade to my mac or any mac in order to do video editing. But every time I used a PC for video editing, I had to screw around with the firewire card and upgrade certain components. I remember the first time myst came out and a guy I knew had it on his mac. the thing took forever to boot up and was very tempermental. the game never played, but flash forward all these years and here I am working on a mac that is supposedly the lowest you can get at this point in time, and it hasn't crashed on me at all. I've thrown everything at this laptop and it's taken everything with gusto. Now that doesn't mean that it did everything right, like for instance it didn't burn to DVD very well, but that has to do with my 933MHz processor and 340 Megs of RAM. What works for me works for me and what works for you works for you.