[DByers]

Well my wife will be heading out to the Mac Store here in town to test drive the iMac. I am sure she will want one. For me I dont care one way or another. I am flexable enough and just stupid enough to make anything work for what I am doing (right now I am using a 8 year old Toshiba laptop with an 11" screen that was under my kids bed for the last 4 years). It took me awhile to get everything to work on our PC with out to much trouble and it did take awhile to make and burn DVD's but I was able to fumble thru. If the Mac does not work for me for whatever reason I will just get a new hard drive for our existing tower and use it and let my wife use here pretty iMac.
Everyone I have talked to locally who uses a Mac cant say enough bad things about PC's. But a friend at MS who I recently saw when I was in Seattle (by the way HD the Prime Card Rocks!) told me to get a Mac. In fact he has one himself and uses it all the time. He also uses his PC all the time. He basically told me you dont use a spoon to cut a steak and you dont use a hammer to do heart surgery. The right tool for the job I guess. He is more of a realist and having only been with MS for just over a year maybe has not had the koolaid yet.
The only thing that really bugs me about all this is the lost data (no back ups, stupid me) and the fact that this new computer will cut into my Porsche budget for the year.
Thanks for all the help and opinions and I will report when we get what ever.