[jyl]

I've gotten two brand new top-of-the-line PCs in the past few months - the IBM X40 and a IBM T42p. Both were fresh installs of Win XP Pro. Such great hardware. Such a lousy OS.

I kid you not, almost every single day I've had at least a problem of Outlook or some other app or a part of the OS freezing up, and rebooting every few days has become routine. Okay, maybe the corporate IT dept loads the machine down with too much crap running in the background, and maybe I use the machines too intensively with too many apps open at once and all kinds of synchronizing and networking going on. But I'm still so unimpressed.

My Mac runs like a top, and I can't remember the last time I rebooted it.

I do wish Apple would make a real super-light sub-note. Their smallest notebook, the 12" PowerBook, has a small footprint but is surprisingly heavy. My X40 weighs far less with considerably better battery life. I also think Tablets will become more popular - I had one for a year, and it was almost right - and I hope Apple offers one eventually.