Regarding Vista .... if your a techie, you'll hate it. If your just a 'user', you won't really know any difference (i.e. if your just gonna use it for email and web surfing)

Bought our son and his wife a new pc last week as a wedding gift ... would have got them a Mac but I'm a cheap sob ... anyway, he is about as illiterate as one can get regarding the technical aspects of computing ... he set it up on his own (Vista and all), and is very happy with it.

BTW ... Vista will evolve and the bugs will disappear ... remember the initial headaches re: Windows 98 and XP.

As Macs become more popular, the quality will erode and the hackers will attack bringing forth the usual headaches of viruses, spyware etc.

I don't love my pc ... but overall it does the job I want it to.

biLL