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Huh... really now? I've built several computers, all XP, and never had any of those problems. Normally when I see those happen, its often a bad hard drive or PSU or bad heatsink/fan. Go make yourself a computer and get SP2 installed on it right away, before ever connecting to the internet. Oh, and try not to accept ActiveX controls that are blocked.:D

Ok, here's my massive take on it. Who the hell cares now? I mean seriously, we have to wait at least 18 months to get everything that we're talking about here in motion, and another 6-12 before it becomes semi-mainstream. Then Apple has to worry about other production bottlenecks, not just PowerPC chips. Once Intel starts manufacturing for both Apple and Wintel machines, which will be the first to go? Intel processors for Windows, or Intel processors for Mac OS? And once that happens, Intel will pull resources from their Apple processors to fill Wintel orders, so in order to fill Apple demand, Apple will pay more, making products more pricey, making consumers pay more. so, top gaming machine, Alienware, runs beautifully, 4 grand. Apple gaming rig with Intel processor, which is coming at a higher place with same hardware, but having to pay for R&D on top of it, will be a couple grand higher for a top of the line gaming rig. And, like some of you were saying, geeks will pay top dollar for the best hardware, 600 dollars for the G70. What happens when the next gen card is released? What about upgradability? Thats gonna be a big hit, too. So Mac OS can run games. Nice. But what has Apple been known for? They've bragged about video editing and all that. Doing a switch and saying they can do gaming now, too, will be hard for a lot of people to agree with. And once again, why buy a new computer for thousands of dollars when you can upgrade the one you have for a few hundred? The reason Windows machines are all decrapitated are because of user error, because people are retarded when it comes to using the internet. SP2 helped a lot of that out, but a lot of people are too dense to use the features included in it. "Hmm... Windows blocked this ActiveX control. But I might want it. Lets get it anyways!" Bad User, not Bad Windows. I, like Beeblebrox, have NON-CRASHING computers that are running XP. All I have is Norton, Sygate Firewall Pro, and a brain. Thats all that is needed. I firmly believe if everyone was educated in using Windows, the problems you hear about wouldn't be around as much. If Windows is 80% of market share, 30% of that being not with XP SP2, then a third of the people using a Windows computer are spretty much screwed. The other 70% of Windows users arent set, either, and say that 5% of Windows users are actually educated and arent infected, then that leaves still 95% of people complaining about the crap on their computer. I see that once Mac OS becomes wide spread, stupid people will start buying them, and spyware will be spread, since we all know hackers get joy from others' suffering. They WILL find a weay to infect. I don't care how secure you think you are, I know its possible. I know I could be in an instant, but its easy to recover things. Easy to screw up, easy to fix. As for Microsoft removing IE and WMP from the OS, this guy is dumb. If it weren't for the whining of Apple and AOL and everyone, no anti-trust lawsuits would have been filed, setting MS back, having to deal with lawsuits. Nor would it have made the European Union MAKE MS remove WMP from Longhorn. THAT was a HUGE setback. If it werent for all this lawsuit stuff and having to make a whole new version of Windows by de-integrating WMP from the OS, Longhorn would be much further along.