why, just why?

so...guess what? Our home computer crashed this morning. I am blogging off of the laptop. This time the (drum roll in the background) HARD DRIVE. What is it with us and hard drives? Aaron took it to best buy and the stupid thing couldnt be recognized on their system. Same story as they gave the last time..."We'll send it in for you, but it could cost up to $1800 dollars. (last time they told us $1200.). I had another hard cry this morning. If you may remember, our external crashed a few months back. Now, for real...everything is gone. It did remind me that the other hard drive that a friend looked at is still there and I need to get over there to pick it up. ugh. That is actually the hard drive I am interested in investing to retrieve information off of, but I still have a ton of things on this other one...including appointments that need editing. I am just sick. So does this mean I turn to a Mac now? What is your experience from going to a pc to a mac?