[jrg]

Glad you're happy. However, as a loooong time windows developer who never really looked at Macs, I've finally moved over to a MacBook. I now have the best of both worlds, running XP in a virtual machine (runs better than it did on my windows box) on the desktop along with the mac. I can still develop with VS within the virtual (no more BSOD's). As much as I hated to admit it, the Mac is a better operating system (or at least from a usability point of view, it appears to be better).

[BRK]

I also have a super cool MacBook running Vista. Best, fastest laptop I have ever had. 2 years old and I have been to Afghanistan twice with it. Guess what? Not a scratch on it anywhere and only a couple of small “springs” in some of the thim metal around the corners and Superdrive openings. Apple has the hardware down cold. Didn’t mean to detract from that fact in my post of this glorious article. My target is droning obnoxious MAC/Steve Jobs groupies. Now they can all FINALLY just shut the heck up can’t they?

[MrLee]

I just replaced my white MacBook for.................... a black MacBook! Life is good! :-)

[ChinaThreat]

Mac may be a marginally better product. But the price difference is anything but “marginal”. Overpriced piece of junk that you could build for 15% of the cost at home using FreeBSD/OpenBSD or Linux “yes i said linux!”.

The PC is still the best platform out there per $. This MAC craze simply exists because of the Ipod.

[ColdWater]

running XP in a virtual machine (runs better than it did on my windows box)

Are you running microsoft OS on a Intel chip?

[SaveTheChief]

I have a question for you two.

Running Vista on a Mac, do the drivers for USB ports and everything else work as if they would on a PC box? The reason I ask is because there is certain Windows based software I must use for my job, and it requires uploading and downloading data to other equipment. I've been using a USB to serial port adapter to connect to the machines that only have a serial port.

I'm actually very interested in getting a MacBook, but this concern keeps me from considering it seriously.