If you need reliability, buy a Mac, flat out. There are people who will tell you they have awesomely reliable builds -- and I had one or two relatively-stable b

If you need reliability, buy a Mac, flat out. There are people who will tell you they have awesomely reliable builds -- and I had one or two relatively-stable builds myself, but people have widely-varying definitions of reliable. Just buy a Mac. Even a Mac Mini works great. I have last year's HD3000 Mini. The lowest end model with upgraded RAM.