I think there's a big conspiracy going on. I think that windows machines are far, far easier to use than apple machines but the apple people are just too embarrassed to admit that they've been conned. I still have another couple of weeks to go until I can return my macbook (losing 20%) and at the moment I think I'm going to do it. I'll see how I go. I'd love to love this beast, but in many ways it is feeble compared to what I can do with my 5 year old Windows XP desktop.