I just got back from a seminar by one of Australia's best seminar presenters. For all his professionalism and preparedness, his Dell laptop wouldn't recognise the USB microphone he was recommending. A simple problem, but he couldn't fix it and neither could the audio tech who was recording the presentation. And before you Apple fan boys start chortling, the audio geek was recording the event on a Mac using the latest version of Logic Pro, and he told me he was having problems with that too. What happened? The presenter demonstrated with $25 Logitech headset instead, and we moved on. I flew home on Air New Zealand and their state of the art touch screen entertainment system refused to boot. What happened? The purser went through the plane, offered everyone an air points credit and we moved on. Twice in one day is a bit much, but  s@#$ happens at the bleeding edge. It helps to be comfortable with that reality. Remind me I said that when my own stuff stops working! Cheers, Ian PS I'm still going to buy the microphone.