I have never brought a copy of your magazine before and, having done so I was astounded that it seems so anti-Mac.

True there are praises here and there, but always followed by a rebuttal - over priced, slow, the 'i' in iMac stolen in 2000, rubbish keyboard, useless mouse, crashing gracefully!

On price you get what you pay for - ask any owner of a BMW! You can buy much cheaper Windows PCs and, provided you don't mind buying a new one every three years, then stick with them.

As for the Mac's keyboard, I find mine very fast. The mouse could be better, mainly because my large hands tend to cover the central button and, as often as not, when in a hurry I find that I have fumbled up the Dashboard. And the criticism of them being slow surely depends upon which one you buy.

As for the 'i' in iMac being stolen in 2000, I seem to remember that in 1998 my first Mac was an iMac. You mention crashing too, what an alien concept. Since the introduction of OS X 10.2 and onwards, I don't think I have ever had a crash on my Macs; they used to in OS 9, but that was years ago.

True there are sometimes situations where the spinning beach ball can hang, but it's only a three-fingered operation to force-quit the problem without affecting the rest of what is running.

I am so glad that I don't have to talk about A drives and C drives - we don't talk drives on a Mac at all. And finally, as for viruses and trojans, I have never had one and I've used my Mac every day for more than 10 years.

Vernon J Yarker