I believe my next laptop is going to be an Apple.

The rollout of the Leopard OS and an unusually frequent number of visits to CompUSA and various Apple showrooms started the ball rolling, but something clicked during my rendezvous with Mark Adam's in Utah's red rock country when he pointed out that his slick little Apple laptop could dual boot Leopard and Windows XP. Subsequent research in Consumer Reports reveals that Apple is tops in quality and support before you ever even consider the aesthetic qualities, power and simplicity of the user interface.

Still--its seems a little strange to being going back to Apple--that's right--going back.

I was one of the original MacIntosh buyers--128K ram and two floppy disk drives. I even paid 2K for a 20 Meg hard drive. I bought Macs through the early nineties until I got a job in the industrial automation industry and was forced to use Windows machines because of the custom software I had to use. From 1994 until now, it was Windows machines. Going back to Apple is like remarrying your first wife...well I imagine its like that (I'm still married to the first one...).

I'll probably wait for the new year's equipment budget, but its a done deal.