In part my hostility to frequent upgrades comes from the dark days of my XP use where taking upgrades impacted on performance - every-time I said yes I brought forward the day when I would need to reinstall everything to get half way decent performance. That one fact alone took me into the Apple Store in San Jose eighteen months ago. My statement I've had enough of XP tell me about OSX was greeted in a similar manner to going into a Welsh revivalist chapel and saying I have sinned I want to repent or meeting Richard Dawkins and saying Please accept me into your loving embrace as an avowed athesist. No more performance problems since then, although I am planning to let the Genius Bar have my Powerbook later in the year for a check over - great service by the way, you pay a small amount per annum which means you can walk into more or less any Apple store worldwide and get help if you need it (which you rarely do). You also get an annual service ....