I have a new laptop! It is the Mac that I was promising to get a few weeks ago. [big sloppy grin]

So far I am loving it - all the goodness of Unix in a pretty and usable shell. "Numfar: Do the dance of joy!"

Actually, the transition has been easier than I was expecting, and despite making sure that I could set-up boot-camp (the ability to dual boot into Windows) , I haven't needed to once. I haven't even bothered to install it.

Excellent.