a PC can be very stable...you just have to know what you're doing...you all seem to be experienced computer users...

now i'm no computer genious, but i built my own system, and made sure to keep all my installs clean and not to fill my computer with junk...and it runs great...on XP. I think PC's are very easy to mess up...but it's usually not their fault...

i would switch to mac if it wasn't so hard (or costly) to upgrade hardware (by hardware i mean processor, RAM, etc.)