You obviously have not used a Mac for a long period of time. I bought an iBook in late February and have been amazed by its performance. It is a 1.33GHz laptop with 768MB of RAM and I must say that it is the most flawless machine I have ever used. Even after installing Apple's new operating system, Mac OS 10.4 or Tiger, it seems to run even faster than it did with Panther. I find that it runs a lot faster than my 2.53GHz machine with 512MB of RAM and Windows XP. Of course, I am still a PC fanatic and am still very much involved in the PC world. A few of my friends have PowerMac G5s and are so happy they have them, because they run flawlessly. Sure, you might have a crash, but only once in a blue moon, probably because you set something wrong or are new to the OS. This happened to me once I got my iBook, but it was only because I was new to the OS. On the other hand, PCs seem to crash all the time usually because of driver or hardware problems. You can't really compare processing power between a Mac and a PC. They are completely different from each other. GHz mean nothing when comparing speeds between the two platforms. It is the performance that matters.