I use to live in the big city (Phoenix, AZ) and I loved Fry’s there. Now I am in backwater Maine. I will be going mailorder.
Will the Mac REALLY do everything I need it to do? Including the Windows games I currently play?
I’ll let Swordmaker comment on that one. Such a nice fat pitch over the plate deserves to be hit out of the park.
Yes, IMO the Mac can do everything a PC can do with less hassle. Sure its limited if, like me, something is added or removed every week. And OS X is not perfect and may need to be reloaded every so often if really buggered up.
Some Windows game may not play exactly right under emulation but most are just fine. We will need to look at the forums to get more details.
If you only upgrade every five years then take a strong look at the Mac. Much more stable than the PC over time.
But for Folding@home, nothing beats the quad cores running SMP for sheer points generated.