I'm afraid of vista

[Alex]

So far, the only people I've seen having issues with Vista are the people who are down in the nitty gritty of the operating system. Regular users don't seem to be having much issue beyond the new learning curve of any operating system (which you'd have anyway with a Mac).

I haven't used it much myself yet, so I could be wrong.

But if you're buying it later this year, I'd just assume on spending X amount of money and then wait and see how it shakes out by the time you get around to it.

What formats do you currently have that you're worried about? Most of the big ones shouldn't be a problem but individual proprietary formats could be a problem. The primary reason Lani keeps her Mac going (she switched last year from 20 years of Macs to a PC) is because of some things that just can't easily be moved over.