At 07:24 PM 9/2/2002 -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: >I think that upgradability is overrated (I've done enough of it >over the last decade+ to have some perspective), and it only >applies to desktop/server type systems. Laptops are rarely upgradable >to any significant degree. That was the major consideration in my ditching my PowerBook G3 for an Athlon-based tower last year: I couldn't buy new hardware for it. I was running Linux on the PowerBook and having all sorts of trouble finding PowerPC-compatible software (since I'm not much good with compilers), and I figured if I was going to run Linux, I should have the hardware that Linux was designed to run on. And then I bought the cheapest hardware available and found that it has all sorts of incompatibilities, but that's another story. ;-) When I was a Mac guy I definitely found Mac hardware more reliable than cheap PC stuff. But cheap PC stuff is much easier to find.