I'm with Clif.

I would find it very hard to trust a pc + software solution day in, day out, because (as he says) PCs are such a patchwork.

The reason Apple Mac's are more reliable than PC's is that Apple have the hardware under such draconian control - there are less variables to manage so the drivers can be written in sure knowledge of the configuration of the hardware platform.

I'm writing this as a PC user, by the way!

[This message has been edited by MacAllcock (edited 01-20-2004).]