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They are ALL made in China.

As for Apple... I made the change two years ago and it is the best thing I have ever done so far as productivity and ease of work is concerned. I am and independent engineer, I make a living working with a computer not working on one.

Knock on wood, two years and never a crash. The only problems I have ever had are Microsoft and I think those are intentional bugs by MS.

I now got an iPhone after trying to make the Blackberry Storm and curve and Casio Commando with Android (a really nice phone) work with my system... they don’t. When you start the purchase with patch this and that and this... forget it.

I had so much trouble with PCs that I put everything on portable hard drives in anticipation of the day I threw the thing out in the yard... I did throw it out in the yard one day... with extreme prejudice. Boy, that felt good!!!

Now, when forced to do windows crap I do it with Parallels, not perfect but it works OK. Works best when you turn all the Mac stuff off, probably a memory thing.

Apple is not about Steve Jobs, it is about an architecture and quality products. The keyboard, drive, case and all on my laptop endure being lugged around in a brief case almost every day. In and out of the bag, link to projectors in client offices and link to their networks pretty much just plug and play. Apple engineers did all this in the 2.8 years Jobs was gone and did it just fine.

I agree. I’ve been dealing with MSFT for decades; my next PC will be a Mac.

Why? Because when I get the opportunity to use one; it’s like a cool breeze on a hot day. It just works, it works seamlessly, without patches, without work-arounds, without hangs. And what seems like the logical next step; almost always is. The more practical settings are set by default - I don’t need a PhD understanding of graphical interfaces to do basic editing.

I watched a presentation for iDVD; and I was infuriated. I was so mad I saw red - literally. Ever tried to make a home DVD using Windows software? iDVD and iMovie made this as simple as humanly possible. A 10 minute video, with music, credits, family shots - done in an Indiana Jones theme took me 15 minutes. 15 MINUTES!!

I spent 10+ hours fighting DVD Studio and Windows DVD maker; and would up with something that looked like Crap. What truly innovation has Windows made in the last 15 years? What does Office 11 have, that Office 95 didn’t have? (Aside from re-learning to use the ribbon?).