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that proprietary hardware thing re Dell was true at least up until 4 years ago; not sure now - Dell seems way worse than before - it used to be pretty good


Kevin, I had so many hardware problems with PCs that I bought a mac mini - only about a $200 price premium over a PC

the mental switch over is a long hellish learning and delearning curve but in 6 months you'll be glad

OS X is not as far advanced over Win 7 as previous comparisons; but the search facility is still much better on the mac

it also appears that the mac OS is just a front end for UNIX; I can drop into Terminal and run the 2 or 3 Eunuchs commands I still remember

there are a lot of GIS and datalogging programs I cannot use on the mac tho; but they also don't work on some newer PC's