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The good news, Lx, is that ignorance is curable. Get a Mac and start learning.

You're a psychic? What are the powerball numbers the next game?

I've actually had a Mac for over a year, it was a nice machine but inside the quality was very interesting. This was in 2004 and it was an Imac, I know, they're the bottom of the line but it worked and never crashed although the drive died which has nothing to do with Apple.

Plugged it into the network and it was off to the races, Windows PCs do the same thing though. The BSODS thast pagued Windows Nt have been pretty mich solved, I haen't seen the blue scree in a least a year.

My biggest problem I had with a Mac is that a friend had an SE?? the one with the monitor in the case. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, has you drag the floppy to the trash to eject it. It's cool when it works but when it doesn't, it's actually very easy to fix IF you have the correct tools. The worse part is they use a torx screw and the tool needs to be around a foot long to reach the screw. I had to cut one of my Torx fold out tools and rig it to work. It took longer to do that than fix the floppy. I was impressed with the insides, it looked very clean and it didn't have the Oops, we made a mistake so we have to have a new rev and solder a wire (or several) to fix the issue whatever it is. When I was a bench tech, I always wondered about the people who didn't get the fix.

If my CIO said we have to support Macs, I would be elated, more info for my CV and it would be awesome to research the pitfalls that come with any device and the beautiful part is that instead of recreating the wheel, I could look at someone elses work.

Don't flatter yourself, I could run in your shoes and I assume you could do the same to me. Not knowing a Mac is not a problem, I get issues with devices I've never seen and I fix them in no time (of course Google helps here).

I've been thinking of getting a tablet. A man in our fellowship has one and it makes it incredibly easy to go to the verse the Pastor is referencing; that is an awesome way to follow the Pastor. I don't know if I should get the Apple version or the myriad of clones out there. I've got an Iphone because AT&T offered it for a dollar. It has a bunch of feature but I only use it to make phone calls, still it was worth a dollar and I haven't had the battery issues folks are whining about. The only downside is that if you have Bluetooth enabled, it suck the battery dry quickly. I don;t think Apple did this on purpose and my wives Samsung has a horrible battery life span. Doing nothing, you have to charge it only after twelve hours.

So you're basing your opinions on an 11 year old version of OSX, and a ten year out-of-date version of the iMac? Which was it? The hemispherical flat panel G4, or the all-in-one G5? Either one shipped with OSX.3 Panther. Those are antiques compared to todays' modern Macs. . . Those Macs were powered by PowerPC processors, not Intel processors. More demonstration of your ignorance of the Mac platform.

Now you reach back 25-27 years to the Mac SE??? It was never necessary to open the Mac SE's case to eject a recalcitrant disk unless the drive itself was DOA. If dragging the disk icon to the trash, which converts to an eject icon, fails to work, then CTRL-CLICK on a single-button mouse, right click on a dual-button mouse, reveals a contextual pop-up menu that includes an "eject" option. There's also a drop-down menu option to eject when an ejectable device's icon is selected. If all those fail, reboot while holding down the mouse button. If that fails, use the handy-dandy, all-purpose Apple disk ejector tool:

Simply unfold one leg, insert unfolded leg at right end of disk slot, engage manual eject lever, and push until disk ejects. Done. Never fails and works on every Apple Mac model with a floppy or optical drive without manual eject button.

I've seen a few "oops!" fixes in Macs over the years, but not many. Apple has been known to have to send out an "oops" software update a day or two after a major software release, too. It happens.

I would recommend the iPad, of course, but for good reasons. . . Since you already have an iPhone, everything you do on the iPhone will be mirrored on your iPad, and vice-verse, notes, mail, purchases, bookmarks, etc. When iOS 8 is released, you'll be able to start something on your iPhone, say an email, finish it on the iPad. Or you'll be able to answer the phone on your iPad. If you do get a Mac, you can do the same on it. I.e., you're working on your Mac and your iPhone rings in the other room. . . just answer it on your Mac. . . then pick up the call on your iPad, where you've sent your work from your Mac to finish later while sitting in the park.