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Stability is in the mind of beholder. Windows can be crashed in a blink of an eye. Mac OS X has been very stable, since the Beta days (I have used all, but 10.4).

If you really need to see those DVD portions, you could run Virtual PC. Most of the good games have been ported to the mac.

MYOB is a very good software for running a business and even comes with a quality manual that is x10 better than Quickbooks.

MYOB is a very good software for running a business and even comes with a quality manual that is x10 better than Quickbooks.

I'm not talking bookkeeping, I'm talking about running the business. I looked at what was available for Macs, and it truly, truly sucked - amateurish and years behind the Win-platform products, even most of the proprietary-hardware stuff.

Don't bother trying reason with Hank. He's here for just one purpose, to insult Mac owners. Along the way he will try to defend to himself some computer decisions he must be unconciously uncomfortable with.

He's hard to figure. As with his response to your comment avout BYOB, which in my opinion isn't as good as Quickbooks (also available in a Mac version), but Hank just comes back with a "Not bookkeeping - running my business" with no real information as to just what the hay he is talking about. You'll never get anywhere with him.

Don't bother, is my advice.

Note that Hank isn't talking about "stability," he's talking about utility. Why should he, as a user, have to find work-arounds in order to use the software, features, etc. that he likes? This is the one thing that Mac-promoters actually lose the argument with. Mac OS has some features that are much better than equivalent Microsoft features... that is an argument that Macheads will win. But as soon as you start to tell PC users how they need to change the way they do things (or that they shouldn't consider some functions as important as they do), that's when you lose. Windows dominates the PC market because (and this is also a product of the domination, as well) people can generally do things easily and the way they want to (or expect to). Pop in a DVD, and the features menu comes up. Buy a game, and it works.

When you say "Most of the good games have been ported to the mac," what you are actually saying is that "The games you want to play, but can't, on a Mac really aren't important." That's hardly a winning attitude in business. And your statement is not even true, in that (as a flight sim fan) almost all of the games I do play haven't been ported.

If Apple wants to raise its market share, its going to have to realize that sometimes leaders have to be followers to. Apple has so bought into its own "image" as a pioneer and visionary company that it occasionally forgets that leading is only successful in business if you end up leading the consumer somewhere they actually want to go...