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YOUR FIRST? Very belated congrats. I had the great pleasure of growing up mac and using my moms old Franklin 2200. Which was an Apple IIe clone. I learned to program in Basic and then in the early 90’s migrated to windows as well, running a linux server out of our basement for my websites. I was a very early adapter and Applephile.

So then for over 10 years I had a PC and MAC running side by side. It was then I could see the huge differences as the OS’s all improved and the “war” heated up.

Finally, when Mac went Intel in 2006, I sold my PC and now have all Mac. I still run Lunix and Windows in bootcamp and Virtual Machines. My Macbook Pro runs Windows XP twice as fast as my old Acer.

I really can’t understand the hatred. After all, in 2007 and 2008, two years running, the #1 ranked PC by PC Magazine, was a MAC. LOL

YOUR FIRST? Very belated congrats.

Thanks, yes, my very first Mac. My only regret is that I didn't do this years ago. But I had such a problem with my main Windows machine a couple of months ago, I knew that the time had finally come to buy a Mac.

I learned to program in Basic and then in the early 90’s migrated to windows as well, running a linux server out of our basement for my websites.

I used to run Apache on Linux as well. But I was very surprised to find that every Mac OS X system comes with the Apache web server. And so easy to run: Apple -> System Preferences -> Sharing and then click on the little box in front of Web Sharing. Then drop a few web pages in the Sites folder in your home folder, and you have a private website for all the rest of the family with computers on your home network. I'm really impressed.

I still run Lunix and Windows in bootcamp and Virtual Machines.

And which do you find to be more convenient? Partitioning with BootCamp and dual booting or using a virtual machine? And for your virtual machine, are you using Parallels or VMWare?