Mac Alternative?

Apart from eating too much chocolate, I've spent a good proportion of the weekend tinkering about with my desktop PC. Its predecessor machine, which died when the motherboard turned its toes up late last year was actually able to boot any one of three operating systems - Windows ME, Windows XP or SuSE Linux, and I quite fancied tinkering with the new machine.

This time I've only gone for a dual boot - Windows ME being well past its sell-by date. I do need XP, which is what I originally installed when I built the box, but I've just installed another Linux OS.

There's little if anything wrong with SuSE, but instead of using it, I decided to try a different distribution and have installed Ubuntu. It's very impressive.

Ubuntu uses the Gnome interface and looks a little less like Windows than its KDE rival. In fact, I find it quite reminiscent of Apple's Mac OS. Given that both systems run on a unix base, the similarities are more than just skin deep...

Mac Time?

I'm extremely interested in Apple's announcement of their Boot Camp utility, which will enable anybody who has an Intel-cpu'd Mac to set up a Windows XP dual boot system...

I had a quick play with an iMac (this one was G5 powered, however) a couple of weeks ago when I set up a small Mac/Windows home network and, good though the OS is, I found the hardware design to be rather appealing as well...wouldn't it be nice to have such a machine with a choice of operating systems?