Changed to Mac about 3 -4 years ago and have never looked back, now have desk top and laptop even my better half and her girls were so impressed they've got lap tops too now as well. Can't remember the last time we had to reinstall drivers, reboot or spend 3 days trying to get any of them to do something that should have been straight forward. No viruses, no problems at all unless you include the glass of wine that got spilt on one of the girls' laptops, even that was painless, covered on insurance and changed within 3 days. You don't need iwrite, just get Office for Mac and it will do all the windows things you are used to, needless to say we all still use Word and Exel cos that's what we're all used to. Initially there are a few quirks with different key strokes etc but you'll get used to it in no time. Check out mac forums and do a google for "changing from windows to mac". Double check all the progs you use now will run on Mac, my business accounts package doesn't so I run windows and Mac on the same computer at the same time and just swap between the two when I have to and it never misses a beat, can't imagine what a windows machine would have made of that? Anyway that's my biased opinion, I'm a convert and would never go back to Windows. Hope that helps a tad