MacVista

With the number of crashes occurring in Vista beta, news that Microsoft's latest offering can be run on an Intel-based Macintosh might offer some relief.

Using the free "Parallel" software you don't even need to re-boot into Windows, you can run Vista within the Mac OS X environment.

Whether this will improve things remains to be seen, but it might just be the best way to experiment with Vista without wrecking a perfectly good PC.

Then again, once you've tried Mac OS X, perhaps the appeal of Vista will be somewhat dimmed?