honey and sting

For what it's worth, I will be getting a new MacBook in a couple of months. I've seen them--they're shiny! They've got built-in webcams and everything. My old iBook has lasted me over six years, and the baby is durable! The new MacBooks also have the Intel processors, which means that if you absolutely insist, you can run Winblows on them. But if you run Micro$oft Office for work stuff, the Macs run Office for OSX like a dream. I've worked on Office files from home, put them on a USB stick and taken them back to my office to work on them there--no problems at all.