Mine does run to the hot side. As soon as any video content is on be it a simple youtube or CNN clip, the fan kicks in right away. With surfing and office duty no fan. But the video will make it start every time and despite the fan it gets practically too hot to be on the lap. Heat is concentrated on upper left quarter where the power comes in.

Fan cannot be turned off at all. My previous PC laptop had a switch for the fan. Unless it was really much too hot I could turn it off.

Battery life is barely 3.5 hours without video. 2h with video. I am not terribly impressed by these things or let's say the impression is rather negative.

I have the 2.53GHz with 4gb ram. 13" screen.

What is very nice is that there are less glitches than with PC and no slow down in performance due to the registry getting junked up. Also no virus software to run and basically no maintenance.

Start-up and shut down times are MUCH better. I do a complete restart maybe once a week. I restart my PC daily.

TOuch gestures are very nice.

What I like more about PC is that the menu system is more intuitive and you can find stuff by just clicking and trying things out. There are always several ways how to accomplish things. On the Mac there are only two or three ways and one of them is a cryptic keyboard shortcut.

I'll give you an example of two things that I do almost daily and that are FAR easier on a PC. They have to do with pictures that are supposed to be easier to handle in Mac.

I open a folder with pics. All the pics show as thumbnails or other variations. I do a single click on View as Slideshow and I can view the entire folder as a slideshow in Full Screen mode. With Mac that takes five or six clicks and it is so not evident that I forgot it again after somebody explained it to me.

Resize pictures to integrate into a mail. With PC there are two ways. Either click the send as mail button and it will ask you how to resize them. Or you use the powertool resizer. Simply select all the pictures you want to resize. Right click and select Resize. Bingo. All pictures appear in the same folder in the resized version with an amended file name. The originals are still there. With Mac that same operation is super complicated. I checked it out online and followed the steps. It took three times as long. I decided I will continue using PC for photo work. Even MS Pictureviewer is easier to understand than bloody Iphoto where I need to import stuff before it works. Stupid!

Not being able to maximize windows with a single click is also ridiculous.

Spotlight on the other hand is sheer genius and works very well.

Besides this, Mac is the superior end user experience but it does cost twice the money.