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" ...lack of multiple desktops is really a killer for me."

No comprende. At the moment, on my four year-old MacBook Pro, I am running NINE (9) desktops simultaneously All courtesy of an "old" Mac OS 10.5.

Most of the objections to Macs I have seen here stem from sheer ignorance as to what OS X does routinely...

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No comprende. At the moment, on my four year-old MacBook Pro, I am running NINE (9) desktops simultaneously All courtesy of an "old" Mac OS 10.5.

Cool. It's something for me to keep in mind, though I'm not really in the market for a desktop for the next several years.

Most of the objections to Macs I have seen here stem from sheer ignorance as to what OS X does routinely...

I believe you'll see that I admitted to that early on in my post.