Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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I've bought myself a powerbook just for the same reason mentionned in the article : I can't stand the idea of paying the price of a tight integration 'laptop/XP software bundle' to then redo all the work to get Linux to work on it.
Had Linux been available preloaded and with all hardware supported (wifi, bluetooth, dvd player, cdrw, firewire, usb2, etc) out of the box in Europe, then I wouldn't own a Mac. And that's still what I think after 6 months of owning a Mac. MacOS is nice but Linux is what suits me.
Outside of the nice hardware integration, there is nothing that would drive me to replace my desktop with another Mac, except video editing and video chat.