I used to love playing around with Linux and was, for a time, quite the proponent of the philosophy - I still am, I guess.

I always used a Mac to write on though. When I got a little tired of fixing things and wanted my computer to just work, Apple became my tool of choice. Now that I have to work for a living since inheriting, the estates all use Macs.

I used to have a little, letter box sized Sony CF1 PC, which was very portable. It ran on Windows 98, which wasn't bad. I had a gaming machine, again a Sony, but when Apple started with Intel chips, my MacBook Pro plays all the games I care to play - either under XP or natively. I removed the XP partition some time ago.

Like Fragony, I love the design of my Mac (s) more than I should. OSX is a marvellous OS for me, and I like to have things work first time - the advantage of having the software designed for the hardware. There's also some specialist creative software made for mac that doesn't appear for PC.

The best thing is, we all have a choice, which is goodness that Mr Gates might have denied us.