That's a bit of a shame, but I'm going to have to assume that the "Mac doctor" you saw isn't very up-to-date with his information library. I've been learning Mac to the best of my ability mostly by chatting with long time faithful users on the Apple discussions forums, and I'm yet to see anything of this sort. So far, I'm very very pleased with this machine (but just a bit upset that I'll have to wait another year, for the next release of Dreamweaver, Flash, and PS, so that those may run natively on the Intel chip; Rosetta is good, but not good enough). If I were you, I'd consider the new MacBook Pro, or even a desktop if you'd like to go all out. Also, if you do decide to buy a new computer from Apple, [b]get .mac![/b] You won't regret it. It comes with iDisk, Backup (you really needed this way back when), and much much more. Anyway, thanks for the response, and I do hope Apple will prove to the both of us that these machines are nothing short of godly.