Mac vs PC

Today I started my desktop iMac and my Tablet PC at the same time. For the first hour, this is what I accomplished with each one.

On the Mac

• read and sent e-mail messages
  
• loaded iGoogle and Google Reader; read items from at least a dozen news sources and blogs
  
• revised wireless presentation that I'll do next week
  
• checked for software updates
  
• checked progress of approaching thunderstorms
  

On the PC

• bupkiss
  

None of its programs, not even System Restore, will come up. I have restarted at least 6 times, the hard way, by pressing the power button. My goal was to download the lastest security updates from Microsoft. IE tried to start but locked up 3 times.