So whats the setup?

Well lets look at this, We're down basically to DOS and Unix,

We're running 2 PC's here, a top of the range quad core desktop and a pretty impressive dual core Acer laptop.

The desktop is running Windows Vista, and as it was designed to run it, (unlike most of the Vista machines people will bitch about) it's running very well. This system is also running OSx86 - the Mac OS designed, by a community of VERY clever people who I appluad, to run on PC hardware... Now most iHumans will at this point declare all comparisons invalid, but hang on, I use Windows and Linux on generic PC hardware, Mac's now run on Intel chipsets, and like Linux are Unix based systems, so if their only claim to superiority is they are a monoploy in terms of hardware production then they fall at the first hurdle!

Lets go on,

The seconds system is a powerful Acer laptop running Vista (again very well) and Ubuntu Studio - an impressive Distro of Linux for those in the creative media field as it offeres real time rendering as a functing of the whole OS! very nice.

The entire set up was thus: £500 for the desktop (which I admit was the result of a bargin as it reatails at £1,500) and £300 for the laptop, Linux is of course free and OSx has a licence fee, but over all I have spent nearly 1/3 of the price a Mac Desktop of the same spec and a Macbook would have cost. Considering I'm getting all the adcvantages of all thre OS's I would queston the point of buying a Mac right there...