This is sort of getting off topic, but here is my final thought on this: the iMac looks cute, but it is no friendlier than any other mac. It has the same software, and very similar hardware. I don't think modern macs are very friendly because they suffer from the same problems as windows- lots of crud tacked on to an inadequate base. I have no idea why the iMac is more likely to bring in a new layer of users than (say) the Sony VAIO or one of the Toshiba systems. Sure, they're dung, but so is the iMac when it's been stared at for a year. As has been said before, while the original Mac offered a GUI for fairly little in a fairly GUI-free world with Apple's name behind it, the iMac offers a blue box in a black and beige world with a much weaker Apple behind it. O- know." http://www.sinasohn.com/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com