Just thought I would pop in to say

[rosesaylavee]

My teenage son bought a Mac notebook this week to take away to school this fall. Our family have been long time PC users as PCs were used in all my previous work places and I knew them best and how to fix when they broke down.

I have to say that I haven't been this delighted and intrigued with any technology since we had our first Mac in 1987. As we were setting it up this week, we could have written a Mac v PC commercial about a dozen times based on our back and forth discoveries of what this nifty little thing can do. We cracked ourselves up. What a beautifully engineered tool.

Just wow.

Ok, carry on. :)

[Captain Angry]

1. The current Mac notebooks are very slick.

I am not in the market for a notebook, but when I am, I'll be looking at a Mac. Hard.

But my daily desktop is a Mac. I used to teach Windows and Linux to tech support people at one of the top 2 PC companies, it still shocks the hell out of my ex-co-workers that I'm using a Mac.

Where's he going to school? Was he able to score the student discount?

[rosesaylavee]

2. The stinker is going to spend his senior year

at an arts high school out on the East Coast. He plays an instrument and is going to major in performance. He got a whomping scholarship to attend as well as money from others in our community to fill out the bulk of the rest of the costs - which all surprised us no end. Its a great place for him and we are delighted ... but still shocked he pulled it off.

So he did get the discount but not the nano for dad. :( Have to be a college bound student for that.

We will probably change to Macs here in the house too when the PC dies its natural death. I will NOT change all my software to accommodate Vista. If all the software needs to be changed anyway, it will be MAC software. I do feel a bit insecure because I don't know how to open it up to fix them if they break... makes my son laugh. He says his friends' families never have breakdowns with their MACs so I won't have to worry. See ...MAC v PC commercial right there.

[Captain Angry]

3. Awesome!

That sounds great.

As far as Vista goes, it hasn't been that bad. I've probably installed it for 30 or so people, and have only seen a few glitches. And most of those glitches were crap drivers from crap companies, not the major stuff. As long as the hardware is strong enough to handle it, Vista runs pretty well.

My next Mac will be powerful enough to run both OSX + Vista. That way, if I *need* to run Vista, I can reboot into it, and someday, will be able to run it in a window within OSX.