[CLRGuy]

I saw this.. and for the fist time I'm seriously tempted to buy a MAC... Development on my remote machine is just too much of a pain from Cygwin and Putty. I don't need a powerful machine... but something more linux-like would be nice. All through my undergraduate program I looked at my professor's OS X machines with envy.

[newgeezer]

I'm seriously tempted to buy a MAC

I used to be what they called a "Mac evangelist," a person who really loved everything about the Mac and wanted to spread the good news. Back then, I would sometimes remind people that "Mac" is not an acronym. (It's 'Mac' not 'MAC' ;O).

No offense intended.

[newgeezer]

but something more linux-like would be nice.

Linspire (née Lindows), perhaps?

[BlazingArizona]

I saw this.. and for the fist time I'm seriously tempted to buy a MAC... Development on my remote machine is just too much of a pain from Cygwin and Putty. I don't need a powerful machine... but something more linux-like would be nice. All through my undergraduate program I looked at my professor's OS X machines with envy.

I see this as not only a nice beginner's machine, suitable for use with your old PC's monitor, keyboard and mouse, but also as a great little server. I think that a few million of these will be running office websites very soon. You can connect it to an existing network of PC's, then VNC into it from the administrator's system - nothing else to buy!