<p>OP, I’d say take the leap to Mac! I’m a Mac person from the get go ('85) but also work on and troubleshoot PCs. My new iMac is bigger, faster and cheaper than any of its predecessors. Got D a MacBook for Christmas and that’s great too. S’s Dell gives us nothing but trouble.</p>
<p>As for the backup, I use Time Machine to backup to an external USB drive. I was able to recover from a catastrophic failure of my old iMac (I have some culpability in that as I made some rash decisions while I was trying to recover from kernal panic) using the old “backup”. Didn’t lose a thing. Interestingly, my bloated inbox (yeah, yeah, I’m one of those people who never cleans up the inbox and has thousands of messages) was archived and easily searchable by content.</p>