"I seriously considered an alternative, but who wants a friggin' Mac?"
The ARE other alternatives you know.....
My two main machines run Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy) and when I get a moment I'll take them up to Heron (the next Ubuntu incarnation). Do everything I'd want and more (I'm not a Linux purist).
The days then Linux was hard to install and maintain are long gone and we've now converted two of the girls in the office to Linux one their PCs and they made the transition effortlessly.
As for the Mac, well, I LOVE my Macbook.....oh and I run XP in a virtual machine on it for those few occasions when I need to test something for the Windows world.
