Hi Fangpyre - thanks for the welcome & the kind words.
It seems you UAE-guys are a great bunch, and I'm sure many of my airborne colleagues are amongst you. After 6 years in the emirate it is nice to have discovered this site.
Your points are well put and refreshingly viewed from a different angle than commonly seen.
Appreciated.
I'm happy with the amount of people wanting to harm OSX is far fewer than XP/Vista, which is one of the many reasons I want to switch, but after 14 years using PC I have never had any security problems, ever. Lots of luck I know, but still.
The main reason for the switch is that Vista has gone completely awry. What a mess.
I'm happy with XP, but who wants to continue down a discontinued line?
And having flown with soooo many happy Mac-pilots through the years I had the distinct impression that all the big Cats were freeze-free, fail safe & will even make you car use less fuel if you are lucky.
So reading the blog posted by Infiniteloop I was shocked. As simple as that.
Let's hope that the new patch will make the slightly sick athlete feel much better and get him up & running again, yeah?
I do a lot of video-editing & photo-editing, and am looking forward to try the one OS that should be made for this.
Now, should I jump right in today and get the MacBook Pro or wait for the June release of the new Intel chip? (all rhetorical q's of course, it all comes down to personal pref's, I know).
Also; 15" or 17" LED? Will the 17" be too heavy for the flightbag?
2.4/2.5/2.6GHz? Is the cost too much compared to the benefit for the two latter?
250 or 300GB? Is the 300GB too slow for video editing?
The questions are many, and I'm learning new stuff on a daily basis.