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I've posted so often about my Vista woes on my high-end PC that I hadn't noticed I never posted about my newest Macintosh! At the start of January I had a week long trip (ironically, to work with an entirely different operating system for embedded devices) and, since my PC laptop is on the order of six years old and huge, decided to buy a new one.

A quick survey determined that...
  • PC laptops, at least at that point, aren't generally available with XP Pro
    • Which, given my Vista woes, ruled them out
  • MacBook laptops are as small and, feature-for-feature, competitively priced with Dell, Toshiba and Levanavo laptops
  • The Mac can, with a bit of help, run Windows XP Pro

So off I went to the Apple store. Came back with a MacBook and Parallels virtualizer. Installed XP Pro. After a call to Parallels due to it crapping out (apparently their boxed software isn't Leopard compatible, but a quick download fixes that), XP Pro boots faster on this 2.2GHz dual-core MacBook under Leopard than Vista boots all by itself on a quad-core 2.66GHz P.C.

Even better, XP/the Mac doesn't crash. And our VPN for the office works under XP under Leopard, but does not work under Vista or the Mac directly. Fascinating.

So, for the best Windows experience... buy a Macintosh!
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