[jyl]

I have not noticed any unusual trouble getting websites to work with the Mac versus with various Windows PCs. All of them require a plug-in occasionally, e.g. the Windows PCs need Quicktime, RealPlayer, updated Flash, updated Windows Media Player codecs, etc.

The bigger difference in my web surfing "experience" is the particular browser used. Internet Explorer is not my favorite, mostly due to the absence of tabbed pages, but I keep a copy as occasionally a commerce or online banking site wants IE. Safari is my favorite, with Opera and Firefox runners-up.

On Mozilla, I think it is a great thing. Thunderbird is a really nice email client. Firefox ditto for web. I like OpenOffice as a Microsoft Office replacement. And these are all free applications, can't spend less money than that.

The iBook logic board problem is on certain older iBooks, not the current or recent ones. It shouldn't have happened, but at least Apple does the repair free - this is on machines as much as 3 years old and long out of warranty.