poor service/support from HP

"no backdoor" for mac is a big myth. Mac has been safer from virus infections in the past, simply due to the fact that hackers aren't writing viruses for an OS that has roughly 10% of the consumer market share. If mac continues to gain popularity due to the crappiness of microsoft Vista, you can be sure we will start to see more malware written for Mac OS.

Dell is now selling several models with Ubuntu Linux, a very nice and sleek alternative to Vista or Mac OS.

J.