In no way can I say get a windows machine; however I own a mac and I love it. But don't think of it as a be all end all, true it does well on the internet especially as far as viruses are concerned, however I use a combination of firefox safari and opera to be able to surf everything I want and then its probably 95% compatible with sites out there. But the most important annoyance is compatiblity with microsoft standards, standards that are used everywhere unfortunetly, try to get it to play an AVI thats isn't 5 years old. It will only be running windows media 9 so it is definitly lacking in this regard. Also recently I upgraded quicktime (the new bloated version) and the timing for internet streams are off and in order to play a video I must pause it and let the buffer go forward but must play the video before its fininshed loading? So as far as working out of the box, I would say it does better than anything we are used to but its far from what should be, in a product that is praised no end as the be all end all, and In my experience thats just not the case. Mac osX is really cool though a big upgrade fom os9 Right now I would say its the best of whats available
