Dear Fellas, I am currently running on a pentium 4 2.4 ghz with 512 mb ram and planning to get a new mac.Well frankly my question points to those guys who are using or have used Intel PC's with windows and Mac's!To be clear here are some of the questions-: 1)I saw apples site and was pretty shocked to see that their macs run an a g4 processor and maximum of only 800 Mhz and whereas i am running a 2.4 Ghz processor,thus will there be a difference in computing? 2)How is the MAC OS in comparison with windows operating systems? 3)Are there tons of applications made for mac like windows has.My primary importance are some softwares like norton anti-virus's,word processor and some programming language and flash 5 etc developing tools and some networking stuff and tons of games(thats optional!) 4)Is it widely accepted?For example the university which i am going to had adviced me to buy a laptop and i wanted to know wether mac can handle documents or stuff given by them! 5)Is there a good support for MAC? 6)Can i upgrade my mac especially i would be going for ibook or powerbooks! 7)Are there any bugs in it or is it clean like linux? regards, nsrd

I was a PC user for years but then I had to work with a Mac for professional reason's. At first I didn't like the Mac but the more i worked on my powerbook the more i became fond of it. Now i couldn't live without it anymore. Never, never, never make me change to PC anymore. About you're question on MHZ's 800 vs 2,4. Don't look at the Mhz my dear friend. There's a lot more that makes your comp going fast. Motorola processors such as the G4 are made in a totally different way then Intels, Athlons, Pentiums,... What about exchanging stuff between mac and pc? Everything can be exchanged. MS Office also exists in mac version. So documents made on your mac can easily be exchanged with an office user on PC. Even flashplayer 5, ... It takes a while to find alternatives for pc programs on the mac. But once you've been settled in. You'll be so happy to have made the step to MAC.

Thanx frankie but where would i get a good article on the mac 800 mhz advantgae v/s the intel and amd advantage? regards, nsrd

Thanx frankie but where would i get a good article on the mac 800 mhz advantgae v/s the intel and amd above 1 GHZ advantage?And....yes what version of a MAC Laptop would be suitable for a student like me who wants to use it at class with speed and extract a lot of power at home with resource hod sofwtares etc......And i would also like to ask the config for a laptop which u would recommend the best! regards, nsrd

Ibook's make awesome laptops for general use and powerbooks are awesome for anything.

Have a gander at just about any site listed on macsurfer.com for lots of (not always objective) articles about Macs vs. PCs. p

Here's a fiendly site with a lot of Mac enthusiats. They'll be glad to direct you to whatever comparison info you need. http://www.techsurvivors.net As mentioned above, mhz comparisons between Mac and PC are like comparing rpm's in an engine. 5000 rpm under a 'Vett hood's gonna get you a bit more speed than 5000 rpm under a Chevette hood. For awhile now Macs have been able to run virtually any Win program. The new Mac Jaguar OS is running circles around Windows.