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Alex

I was going to go the Mac rout when I last bought a client for home, the main reason for Mac rather than another Linux was that I was looking for a way to regain my interest in computers. I have been in this stuff since 1979ish and had really lost interest in most of it. Which isn't good if it is how you make your living.

Of all the systems I have used and worked on, mostly UNIX, Linux and of cause MS, I have never sad in front of a Mac.

I had chosen a machine and had the idea of later replacing my Linux server at home to a Mac server.

Then when I was ready to open my wallet and start buying, every Mac disapeared from PC World (2 in reasonable distance to me). When I asked about this in a news group I was told they were in big trouble with sales.

So I abandoned the idea.

Macs are back in PC world so it must have only been a blip in the market place, maybe they was a new model on its way to the shelves or something.

But while I had been reading up on them, I could fully understand the Mactypes falling in love with the beast. Put simply it seemed (on paper anyway) to be a computer that does what a computer is meant to do.

Ok, I'm a programmer so I would have lifted the bonnet and had a poke around, but for a non-programmers on a Mac there wouldn't be a need to do that, they could just get on with what they want to do and forget there's an engine at all.