I too have become somewhat disillusioned with Apple products. My system crases while awakening from sleep at least twice a month now. I had the File Vault problem and lost all of my bookmarks, contacts, etc several times. Had those pref files backed up, but reinstalling them did not fix the problem until File Vault was turned off at the suggestion of Apple. iTunes and Classic will not run on more than one user account at a time. That means, if anothr user forgets to close iTunes, and does not log out, and I log in I can't use itunes or classic despite 1GB of RAM. Kind of defeats the purpose of fast user switching if users have to close thier programs before someone else logs in. Finally, my FW HD often will not mount, even with disk utility unless I restart the computer. Then monuts right up. Collosal time killer whe I have iMovie, iDVD, Power point, Safari, Mail, Quicken, and Word all open, with open documents scrolled to where I am working on them. I have to reboot and re-open all of them just to mount my external hard drive. I don't think it is the HD's fault since a reboot with the FW cable pluged in or not fixes it. I'm done Ranting and raving. Each time it comes time for a new computer, I compare apples to windows and buy whatever has the most features for the lowest price. I've been using Mac since 1990, but I no longer have any loyalty.