[ccmay]

It has to be said:

Flog it on Ebay, and buy a Mac. It will be the best computer-related decision you ever make in your life. With the new Intel machines, you can always go back and install Windows, but I bet you won't.

-ccm

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Flog it on Ebay, and buy a Mac. It will be the best computer-related decision you ever make in your life. With the new Intel machines, you can always go back and install Windows, but I bet you won't.

- We recently had the opportunity to thoroughly check out a Macbook. It had a 60g hdd (kinda puny these days) a 2 gig dual core intel processor and a gig of ram.

We put XP on it using Bootcamp beta. To say it went smoothly would be an understatement. The bootcamp neatly and unceremoniously repartitioned the drive and created the driver disk for xp. The machine rebooted to the XP setup screen and away it went.

Not only was the machine screaming fast in it's native mode it ran circles around all the "high end" PC laptops in the store with XP running.

In it's native mode it was about 25 seconds from the time you opened the lid and hit the start button until it was usable.
By comparison my personal laptop (p4 2.4 512m) takes about a minute and a half (dependent on what usb devices I have plugged in on boot)
My only gripe was the on-board intel graphics with the shared system memory. But...

My next desktop machine will definitely have the dual core processor. It might even be housed in a mac.