Having had my macbook only a week now, I feel I can say this thing is damn near the greatest thing i have ever experienced. something about it...it's hard to pin down. i adapted pretty quick & all the little quirky preferences i used to be able to set on my pc i can do here. i wish picassa worked on this....i like it infinitely more than iPhoto, but it's good enough. i love how macs organize things...i'm huge on organization (despite what my bedroom looks like) and these are incredible. i know there are some programs that simply haven't been developed for macs....but with boot camp, i can't imagine a reason (other than price) to get a pc....

I think she means microsoft works on mac. which is excell, powerpoint, word, access but it opens and works on mac OS. the student teacher edition runs about 150 bucks and it actually works better than the pc version of works.

If you want to run windows on your mac, dont use bootcamp, buy pararrells. its about 60 bucks and you can actually run windows and mac os at the same time. So instead of having to reboot your computer everytime you need to switch(in bootcamp) you just click back and forth. also, the thought of having to split my harddrive in two for bootcamp just makes me nervous.

Anyone running leopard yet? I'm planning on getting in on that soon, but haven't made the jump yet. now that I've had my mac over a year I can without a moment's hesitation....I would never use my own money to buy a windows-based computer. Mac seems to work under the motto anything you can do i can do better. Except typically it pushes its own boundaries because windows is too slow to keep up.

I truly wish the business world would catch up to the consumer world, but i know it will likely never happen. i know if i ever get around to owning my own firm, it'd be macs only.

I truly cannot understand the hesitation any longer now that Macs can do virtually everything a PC can do, and I read a report that the best machine for running Vista was a Mac! OF course the legal market is probably the furthest behind (next to the government), so we're still on thinkpads (though at least its le novo!)