And therein lies the rub. You get to report your individual experience from the O'Reilly platform, while the rest of us who have little or no similar trouble can only bemoan another veiled mac-bashing in the Comments.

> My post was not a diatribe against the Mac. Only
> against those people who have been telling me ...
> that the Mac is a panacea.

Then the post is simply ill-conceived to begin with, or at the least just poorly written, because you don't bother to make clear "the point" until the last paragraph.