As your former flight student, I wholeheartedly agree!
At 499, the new mac is a bargain, and it does circles around typical PCs.
I have macs, PCs, a SUN, and even a DEC ALPHA (though these days the Alpha is just a coffee table).
Of all the computers I have, I use the macs for my daily work. they never EVER crash, work flawlessly, and exhibit none of the issue I find with the Windoze platform. For instance, I recently lost copious amounts on data on my XP machine, and anded up being forced to reformat and reinstall. I've never been faced with that on a MAC.
Andy
Glad too see you here, Andy!