MacOS 9 definitely had some issues that were almost all related to poor memory management. MacOS X fixes all of those issues.

My problem with your ``solution'' is that you can do as many things with a Mac as with a PC. Your intimation that the only things that you can do with a Mac are browse the web and word process is insulting, which is, of course, what you're trying to be. An A for effort.

The problem is that people want to do much more than that with a home computer. A Mac (with MacOS X) allows you to do those things without worrying about your computer crashing. Windows most definitely does not. And a Windows machine can easily crash just trying to get things that will just allow you to browse the web. I believe that there are numerous posts on this board about trying to get Flash to work.